health

Join the Friends of Laurel Hill in our native plant garden and green burial area, Nature’s Sanctuary, for a therapeutic horticulture series that invites you to relax, reflect, and restore. Working with the healing power of plants can help to...

We spend 90% of our time indoors. It should come as no surprise that the indoor environment greatly impacts our health and wellness. How can spaces be designed to promote wellbeing and productivity? What type of lighting can help our...

From hemp clothing, hemp jewelry, CBD products and Medical Marijuana, this is poised to be a breakout year for the Cannabis industry. After 80 years of government prohibition, American farmers, businesses and consumers can finally grow, process, sell and use Cannabis...

In this slow-paced walk, clinical herbalist Kelly McCarthy will highlight the medicinal uses of common weeds and trees, covering basic plant identifications and going in-depth about using these plants as medicine. While she does not encourage harvesting any plants in...

Welcome fall with a variety of wellness exercises and programs on the natural landscape of the Schuylkill Center. Mindfulness is our ability to focus on the present moment while acknowledging our feelings and thoughts. Studies have shown that practicing mindfulness can...

The Ivy League Future of Food Conference is an annual, Ivy League-hosted academic and professional conference dedicated to science, entrepreneurship, and policy in the plant-based and clean meat space. The conference is open to the general public and features renowned...

Want to get your family outside more but don’t know where to start? Come to The Schuylkill Center for some unstructured nature play and a hike! With a Schuylkill Center educator and a CHOP pediatrician, we will climb, explore, and...

Guest post by Mei Chung How are public health, energy efficiency, and poverty connected? The Philadelphia Energy Authority (PEA), recently hosted a panel “Bridging the Gap Between Public health, Energy Efficiency, and Poverty”  to explore how public health and energy...

Ladies, we need to have a conversation on here today about what we’re putting into our bodies. More specifically? Our vaginas. (Um, yeah. I guess this is the point where I tell any dudes trying to date me / my...