Twice each year, Philadelphia comes together for LOVE Your Park (LYP) Week — a citywide celebration of Philadelphia’s diverse parks featuring a week of service projects, fun events, educational programs, family activities, […]
On October 1, the Abington School District, TTF and NAM Planning and Design, LLC, hosted a community meeting regarding our upcoming riparian buffer planting at the headwaters of Baeder Creek. […]
What is a meadow? A meadow is an open vegetated area of grasses and wildflowers without trees. Meadows are important ecosystems that provide a variety of benefits. Do meadows help manage […]
Each month, the Philadelphia Water Department holds a community meeting on the third Thursday from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Municipal Services Building, 16th Floor, Room Y about the […]
Construction on the rain garden at the Olney Recreation Center (A and Champlost Streets in Philadelphia) is underway and will be completed soon! Rain gardens are shallow depressions that can […]
Over the next year, our new VISTA Abby will be working with TTF and the Germantown Tree Tenders group to plant and tend trees in Philadelphia. We are pleased and […]
The celebration of the Vernon Park rain garden installation coincided with a beautiful Saturday morning right after a week of intense rainstorms. Lori Hayes from Philadelphia Parks and Recreation gave […]
This past Saturday morning, Tacony Creek Park got some much needed LOVE from dozens of volunteers of all ages. Tacony Creek Park is this year’s signature park for LOVE Your […]
In preparation for the grand ribbon-cutting ceremony at Glenside Elementary School on May 24, TTF organized a planting in partnership with members of the Glenside Parent Teacher Organization to add […]
On April 21 this Earth Day Weekend, TTF led volunteers from City Year, Arcadia University, and the Chew and Belfield Neighbor’s Association in planting seven trees, weeding a nearby community […]
One of TTF’s partner organizations, The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS), is currently running a Garden Tenders basic training course to prepare residents to establish and maintain community gardens in their […]
TTF recently hosted the first-ever Tookany/Tacony-Frankford watershed area Tree Tenders meet and greet. This event provided an opportunity for tree enthusiasts to meet each other, learn about their watershed, and […]
The Wingohocking (now called Germantown) Tree Tenders, established by TTF in partnership with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS), planted street and yard trees in Germantown on Friday, November 18, 2011. […]
On Saturday, November 5, over 100 community members and Vernon Park stakeholders came out to complete and celebrate our rain garden installation. Over the past six months, TTF has spearheaded […]
TTF joined Cedarbrook Middle School students and teachers, Earth Force, and NAM Planning & Design, LLC three days last week to install a riparian buffer on the school grounds. The […]
Yesterday, TTF hosted two really exciting restoration events simultaneously! In Cheltenham Township, Steph spent the day with Cedarbrook Middle School teachers, over 100 seventh graders, and Nancy Minich from NAM […]
Did you miss our Clearview Community Park Ribbon-Cutting event last week? Check out some of the photos and video from the event here! Stephanie Clymer, TTF’s new AmeriCorps VISTA, and […]
Last night, we had a terrific ribbon-cutting event at Clearview Community Park in Germantown! Check back here soon for photos and video from the event. In the meantime, take a […]
Check out this awesome news from the Philadelphia Water Department! PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) are ready to begin an exciting chapter of its […]
This weekend TTF, with a fantastic group of volunteers, planted 13 new street trees. Thanks to the volunteers for their hard work, to PHS for the trees, and to Mother […]
With spring quickly approaching, the Wingohocking Tree Tenders are back to work! We are currently collecting forms for anyone who would like to have a tree planted on their property […]
RAIN CAN’T STOP US!!! Remember to come help TTF in the last steps of our Vacant Lot Revitalization project today. We will be planting native flowers, shrubs, bushes and bulbs […]
TTF recently helped with planting an Audubon-certified native bird habitat at Wyncote Elementary School. You may remember the last time we assisted with a native bird habitat at Cedarbrook Middle […]
Yesterday, while Sarah was helping Wyncote Elementary School students with a planting project at their school, Ashley and I headed over to the Maritime Charter Academy High School to help […]