Cancelled: Seed Starter Sunday
This event was canceled due to inclement weather! Join TTF on three Sundays at the River Alive! Learning Trail to get FREE seeds and everything needed to plant and take […]
Tag: Native Plants
CANCELED: Seed Starter Sunday
DUE TO EXPECTED INCLEMENT WEATHER, THIS EVENT IS CANCELED. Join us on these Sundays to get everything you need to plant seeds and take them home to grow! Domingos: Inicio […]
Seed Starter Sunday
Join us on these Sundays to get everything you need to plant seeds and take them home to grow! Domingos: Inicio de semillas ¡Reúnese estos domingos para recibir todo lo que […]
Tikkun Olam (Heal the World): Volunteers plant 2,000 Natives at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel!
Can you guess how many TTF volunteer hours were contributed when people planted two thousand native perennials at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel (KI) in Elkins Park? Read on to find […]
Lots of Nature & Wildlife in TTF Watershed: 2023 City Nature Challenge & Spring BioBlitz
Our annual BioBlitz ran from April 22 through May 1. A BioBlitz encourages participants to observe as many species over a set amount of time in a particular geographic area. […]
Mapping Our Watershed: Community Science and Art in Cheltenham Township
We are excited to work once again with Rebecca Schultz as well as Cheltenham Center for the Arts on the vastly creative and community-uniting project, Mapping Our Watershed. Through six […]
Nature-Based Pollution Solutions Coming to Northwood!
As part of the twenty-five-year Green City Clean Waters program, the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) is installing Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) projects across the city to combat pollution from stormwater […]
Watershed residents learn how to sow native plant seeds
View of riparian buffer at Ethel Jordan Park. As a watershed organization, we recognize the importance of native plants and their connection to healthier watersheds and healthier communities. We hosted […]
Free Winter Seed Starting Workshop
Learn about growing native perennials in this easy way to start seeds. The native seeds are started outside in containers so they are protected from wildlife and benefit from the […]
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 […]
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 […]
On the move with TTF: rain garden plants find new home!
In 2012, TTF installed a rain garden to capture and clean runoff from the Olney Recreation Center roof in partnership with the Philadelphia Water Department. This feature not only managed […]
Vernon Park Rain Garden Cleanup & Maintenance
Join us to care for our very first rain garden at Germantown’s beautiful and historic Vernon Park. We’ll weed and pick up litter in the rain garden with our partner, […]
Meet Kamille, our new intern
Hi, my name is Kamille and I will be an intern at TTF this summer! I studied Environmental Studies in college. I have really enjoyed my coursework that has focused […]
Volunteers to the Rescue: Thank you, WGL Energy and Philadelphia Insurance Companies
Blog by Frankie Lazauskas, Upstream Conservation Leader It’s been a busy past few months here at TTF! We’ve had a couple of groups of volunteers come out to some of […]
Native Plants: help birds, control insects, and beautify your property!
By Sophie Buckingham, TTF Summer Intern, recent graduate of Abington High School, and Environmental Studies major at Tufts University Over 95% of the land in the continental U.S. has been […]
Planting with Saint Basil Academy
Guest blog by Madison Comey, senior, and Chang-Sookyung, teacher, Saint Basil Academy. On November 12, 2015 twenty-one Saint Basil Academy (SBA) students planted a creekside buffer of young trees on the grounds […]
North 5th Street YPN Community Champions = Watershed Heroes
By: Jason Rodriguez, North 5th Street Revitalization Project/Philadelphia Youth Network Intern Did you know there are two types of sewers running through the City of Philadelphia?! And get this: native […]
The Vernon Park rain garden is tour ready!
By: Robin Irizarry, Philadelphia Watershed Coordinator Wednesday morning was a beautiful time to visit the Vernon Park rain garden. TTF’s new Philadelphia Watershed Coordinator, Robin Irizarry joined the Friends of Vernon Park for some […]
An Introduction to Native Plants
The native environment is important to the health of our watershed. Native plants offer benefits to the environment that their competitors may diminish. Not only do they make our projects […]
Wissahickon Charter watershed stewards tend to Harmony Garden
We’ve been fostering a generation of watershed stewards through the Urban Waters project, a joint effort among TTF, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS), and GreenTreks Network, made possible through a grant from the Environmental Protection […]
Cheltenham EAC Continues to Protect Creek with Parkview Planting
The Cheltenham Township Environmental Advisory Council (EAC) took another step towards enhancing the health of the watershed with a riparian buffer planting in late October. The Cheltenham EAC has installed […]
Sowing the Seeds of Change at Abington Headwaters
Timed perfectly on October 5 before the recent rain, TTF along with the Abington School District, partners, and over 60 volunteers completed the second phase of buffer planting along East Baeder Creek.The creek’s eastern […]
Ernst Helps TTF “Plant” the Native Seed Need!
A big “Thank You!” to Ernst Conservation Seeds for their second thoughtful, generous donation of three pounds of Black-eyed Susan seeds to assist TTF with conservation efforts in our watershed! Ernst is a wonderful, […]