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What do you and your family like to do in Tacony Creek Park?
What kind of programs would you and your family like to see in Tacony Creek Park? Share your thoughts & receive a FREE GIFT! ¿Qué tipo de programas les gustaría ver a usted y su familia en Tacony Creek Park? ¡Comparte tus pensamientos y recibe un REGALO GRATIS! TTF offers a variety of free programming…
It’s a Wrap on 2022! TTF Staff Highlights & 2023 Goals
As 2022 came to a close, the TTF team reflected on a productive, fun year. Staff have worked tirelessly and experienced some amazing accomplishments worth celebrating. Here our are our personal 2022 highlights and hopes for next year! Malcolm Bundy, Philadelphia Community Organizer “My 2022 highlight was hosting the large Storm Drain Marking event with…
Stream Smart brings healthier creeks to homes & communities!
As 2022 comes to a close, so will the multi-year Stream Smart Program funded through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and coordinated by our partner, the Pennsylvania Environmental Council. This collaborative effort began in the spring of 2019 across suburban Philadelphia to engage residents with their watershed and tackle stormwater runoff from the largest…
Our 2022 Volunteers!
Every year, we work with enthusiastic, hard-working volunteers who lend a hand to collect trash (a short-term but never ending challenge) and plant trees (a long-term investment in the future of our neighborhoods and planet). Individuals and groups from schools and businesses join us to get this work done! In 2022, we hosted 53 volunteer…
Leaving a Positive Mark on our watershed
Did you know that the part of our watershed in Philadelphia has roughly 12,000 storm drains that flow into the Tacony Creek, many of which are still unmarked? Our Montgomery County communities have storm drains too — these drains flow into the Tookany! With the help of dedicated community members, we have been working hard…
The Board Perspective: Highlights from TTF Board Co-Presidents, Susan Myerov & Sara Poindexter
Highlights from Board Co-Presidents By Susan Myerov, Abington Township Environmental Advisory Council and Senior Program Director, PA Environmental Council One of the great pleasures I have being a board member of TTF is the opportunity to participate in the various programs and events we host over the year. 2022 was a year that marked a…
Friendsgiving Dinner Brings Tacony Creek Park Community Together
By Siani Colon, TCP Keeper We are so proud to share this Guest Blog by Siani Colon. Siani is an active TCP Keeper and the recipient of our 2021 Watershed Milestones Friend of the Watershed Award. As 2022 comes to close, the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership (TTF) celebrated the wins of the past year and gave…
Touring and reflecting at TTF watershed restoration sites
TTF’s mission is to connect our communities to their creeks and work with them to improve creek health. One of our engagement strategies is to continually connect our communities to ongoing creek restoration efforts. My favorite tool is hosting tours to showcase our restoration sites. The change you can see at one site, from when…
Seeking an environmental internship in Philly? Join the TTF team!
TTF has built a community of people who care about the health of our creeks and open spaces. We simply couldn’t do our work without their passion and energy. Our interns have been essential to deepening our impact. Over 50 enthusiastic, diligent young volunteers have passed through our doors over the years. We take our…
Leave the Leaves for Understory Habitats
This blog is a repost from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. View the original post here. Red, orange, yellow, gold, brown – every autumn, the canopies of the Northeast transform into a picturesque glory of color. Once they fall though, our opinions of these very same leaves may quickly change. Are they yard…
Working Together to Remove Hundreds of Tires from Tacony Creek Park
Faced with the dumping of hundreds of tires below Whitaker Avenue and along the Tacony Creek Park Trail in early October, partners Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful, United By Blue, Philadelphia Parks & Recreation (PPR), Philadelphia Water Department, and TTF shared resources and volunteers to remove the tires as quickly and sustainably as possible during two cleanup…
Learning to fish the TTF with Legacy, Land and Water Partners
This fall, for the first time, TTF hosted fishing programs! We partnered with Todd Pride of Legacy, Land and Water Partners, an organization that provides both on-site hands-on and virtual education and training to build a lifetime passion for youth, employees, families, and organizations and strengthening wellness through fishing, birding, wildlife, and gardening activities. On…
Are you a Tacony Creek Park Explorer? Free kits coming soon!
Did you know that our Tacony Creek Park Master Plan includes two special pilot engagement projects? Both People of the Park and Tacony Creek Park Explorer Kits are almost complete and ready for you to enjoy! With the guidance of Karen Lefkovitz Educational Consulting, we created English and Spanish Tacony Creek Park Explorer kits to…
Deadly Fungi Information
This guest blog is a repost from the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education (SCEE). You can see the original post here. We appreciate that our SCCE partners are willing to let us share their blog! Our watershed is a flourishing green space, where you can forage for various edible plants! (See our Tacony Creek Park…
Rain didn’t ruin the 2nd Annual Fall Fest fun for the Tacony Creek Park community!
At the beginning of October, TTF hosted our second annual free Tacony Creek Park Music & Arts Fall Festival in partnership with Olney Culture Lab of CultureTrust Greater Philadelphia. Community groups, friends, and family gathered inside Grover Washington Jr. Middle School instead of outside at the park due to the rain. One hundred twenty adults…
TTF Watershed Milestones Award Ceremony at Globe Dye Works: Celebration of Clean Water Community
Honoree Roy Gordon, Philadelphia Water Department, summed it up perfectly when he said: “All of us are here together for a reason!” The Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership (TTF) recognized Roy as Public Leader of the Year as we joined with 100 attendees to celebrate watershed heroes at our eleventh Annual Watershed Milestones Ceremony last week at…
River Alive! Learning Trail Brings Learning to Life
This blog is a repost from The Circuit Trails. Read the original post here. We’re happy to share this post about our River Alive! Learning Trail by our Circuit Trail partners. We look forward to the day when the Tacony Creek Park Trail runs along Cayuga Street in front of the Learning Trail as the…
Mariana Bracetti students improve their watershed!
Over 120 Mariana Bracetti Charter School fourth graders and teachers participated in a storm drain marking and clean-up event around the Tacony Creek Park gateway at Bingham & E. Ashdale Streets on September 23. The chilly weather didn’t put a damper on the day. The students have been learning about watersheds in class and were…
Jenna Song shares her experience as a TTF Yoga Instructor!
This blog is a reflective post by previous TTF staff member, Jenna Song. Jenna provided in-person yoga during the spring and summer of 2021 and spring of 2022. Online sessions were provided in the winter of 2022 until the spring of 2022. From April-May 2022, Jenna included tea time in her outdoor yoga sessions! Jenna…
Now announcing: Our 2022 Milestones Watershed Heroes!
We are only able to achieve clean water work with the help of our exemplary watershed heroes. This year, in our 11th Annual Watershed Milestones Awards Ceremony, we are recognizing a whopping TEN honorees in the following categories: Friend: Frank and Betty Coyle Friend: Devin Green, Bennett Compost Educator: Rachel Zibelman-LeSuer of Juniata Park Academy…