River Walk: Listening to Tacony Creek Park.
By TTF Intern, Sophia Brown It was a brisk and rainy early April morning. I assisted TTF Watershed Partnership with the Philly Spring Cleanup in Tacony Creek Park. The cleanup […]
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A Day of Action: Volunteers Beautify Tacony Creek Park in Honor of MLK
By TTF Philadelphia Community Organizer Malcolm Bundy. “No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence” – Dr. […]
Volunteers Clean Up Tacony Creek Park & Newtown Avenue with critical partners
Spring is officially here– which means warmer weather, longer days, and opportunities to volunteer outside! What better way to kick off the spring season than with the Streets Department annual Philly […]
Clean Philadelphia NOW: No more dumping in Tacony Creek Park!
Are you tired of walking through Tacony Creek Park and seeing illegal dumping along the trail? Trash Academy is a collaboratory of artists, engaged citizens, and representatives of non-profits (and […]
Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy: 2024 Day of Service
by Malcolm Bundy, Philadelphia Community Organizer Every year, community members celebrate the legacy of Dr. King by giving back to their community for the MLK Day of Service. This year, […]
70+ Volunteers Honor MLK Day in Tacony Creek Park with TTF
Every year, watershed residents and organizations from across the region contact us to ask how they can participate in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service and improve our […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Record-Breaking Cleanup in Tacony Creek Park: Thank you, partners!
TTF is so excited about our successful Tacony Creek Park Cleanup at the Whitaker Avenue & East Loudon Street Gateway in Feltonville! On Saturday, March 19 from 10 am until […]
TTF neighbor & partner, Bennett Compost: a leading sustainable business in Philly!
Philadelphia residents are frustrated with the large amounts of trash across our city, a critical issue for the health of our air quality, waterways, and more. Each year, Philadelphia disposes […]
It’s Plastic Free July: Small Actions Spark Big Changes
This blog has been adapted from the Academy of Natural Sciences website. July 2020: Reduce Plastic Use 40 Ways to Reduce Your Plastic It’s Plastic Free July, and millions of […]
Giving Back on Martin Luther King Day of Service 2020
By Nagiarry Porcena-Meneus, Community Organizer To honor the environmental justice teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., community members, volunteer organizations, and schools came together in both of the Montgomery […]
Neighbors Flock to Tabor Road Gateway to Tacony Creek Park!
By Robin Irizarry, Philadelphia Watershed Coordinator First impressions are everything – that’s why TTF is improving the neighborhood gateways, or entrances, to Tacony Creek Park. This year we have brought […]
Juniata Park: Clean, Green, Beautiful!
We have lots of connections to Juniata Park! There’s a busy gateway to Tacony Creek Park at the intersection of I Street and Ramona Avenue, which is right around the […]
Lasallian Students Learn about Clean Water in Greater Philadelphia
We were delighted to host a Lasallian student group last week for a day of community service and education. They were amazing, even in the extreme heat. Here’s a guest […]
Love Your Park Fall Festival Warms up Tacony Creek Park
The wind didn’t stop over 40 neighbors and friends who joined us and the Tacony Creek Park Keepers at the Love Your Park Fall Festival & Cleanup on Saturday, November […]
MLK Day 2018: Upstream & Downstream Fun!
Guest blog by TTF intern, Bryan Porten-Willson Martin Luther King Jr Day has become known as a day on, not a day off. Here at TTF, we celebrate this holiday […]
Service Learning in Tacony Creek Park
Nicole contacted TTF about volunteer opportunities in Tacony Creek Park, across the street from her home, as part of a service learning assignment for an environmental science class at Community […]
Thank you, volunteers!
This year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service was a busy day for TTF! Our team was in two places at once: Downstream in Tacony Creek Park: Over 30 volunteers […]
Quit Dumping in your Creek!
Our region has experienced centuries of settlement, agriculture, industry and development. Since William Penn arrived in the 1600s, our creeks have been on the receiving end of residents’ dirty leftovers. […]
MLK Day of Service: All (Watershed) Life is Interrelated
“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects […]
TTF turns on the “Power” at Tacony Creek Park!
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, […]