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Fun around town, for $10 or less:

We like trees and we like food, so we’re obviously enamored of The Philadelphia Orchard Project. The organization, more manageably referred to as POP, is a local non-profit who plant orchards which then provide healthy produce, offered to communities in need at low cost or for free. This Saturday they will join forces with the Norris Square Neighborhood Project and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society to go on a planting rampage with flowers and fruit trees at existing gardens and a new lot in the Norris Square Community. The women’s collective of NSNP, Grupo Motivos, will host the Urban Seminar in Norris Square in conjunction with the plantings; that event is expected to draw over 400 students from local universities. Want to get in on the dirty action? Show up at 2nd and Palethorp Streets between Susquehanna and Dauphin at 10AM this Saturday, grab a shovel, and get to work.

Even if it wasn’t one of your New Year’s resolutions, moving around is never a bad idea. One of the big problems we have is gym memberships can be expensive, and frankly we have such issues with commitment that getting locked into anything for a year is a frightening prospect. So we thought we’d look around for some cheap, noncommittal ways to get active; free is best, but the occasional class shouldn’t break the bank.