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Can Philly become a hothouse for bananas and pineapples as the climate warms?

Philadelphia Orchard Project has built greenhouses to grow exotic fruits.

Phil Forsyth, the Orchard Project’s co-executive director, poses with a loquat tree in one of the new high tunnel unheated greenhouses at the Woodlands estate. Forsyth and his colleagues are experimenting with growing fruits typically native to warmer climates now that Philadelphia's temperatures have risen amid climate change.
Phil Forsyth, the Orchard Project’s co-executive director, poses with a loquat tree in one of the new high tunnel unheated greenhouses at the Woodlands estate. Forsyth and his colleagues are experimenting with growing fruits typically native to warmer climates now that Philadelphia's temperatures have risen amid climate change.Read moreSteven M. Falk / Staff Photographer