TreePhilly Fall Yard Tree Giveaway
TTF and TreePhilly invite you to plant a tree in your yard! Free trees are available for residents of the 19120, 19124, 19140 and 19149 zipcodes. For information on getting a free […]
Tag: Nature
Watershed-Wide Photo Contest Winners Capture the TTF
We are so proud to announce, along with partner the Olney Culture Lab, the award-winning photos from our third biennial photo contest, Capturing the TTF Watershed Wide. Participants could photograph […]
Family Scavenger Hunt / Búsqueda de tesoros, Tacony Creek Park
Join Sierra Club Philly for a morning of nature and fun at Tacony Creek Park! All families will be given a scavenger hunt, to find different things and creatures in […]
Tacony Creek Creatures: Red Foxes
This is the beginning of our series, “Tacony Creek Creatures” about the animals in Tacony Creek Park, written by our intern, Emmanuel! He’ll be sharing lots of information about each […]
2023 Tacony Creek Park Block Parties: Bugs, Summer Joy, and a Milksnake!
Our 11th year hosting Block Parties in Tacony Creek Park was filled with colorful chalk on the trails, joy in nature, family, environmental education, edible plants in the park, and […]
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. […]
Capturing the TTF: Announcing the 2023 TTF Watershed-wide Photo Contest!
*Para español, deslice hacia el final de la página* TTF Watershed Partnership: 2023 Photo Contest Details & Rules TTF and the Olney Culture Lab are happy to announce our third biannual […]
Fish Fest with Riverfront North Partnership
Riverfront North Partnership invites the community to a fun afternoon of all things fish (and all things FREE) at the Frankford Boat Launch on Saturday, May 20 from 3-6pm. Learn […]
Partner Alliance Spotlight, REI: Investing in our Local Communities
“Individually we are one drop, but together we are an ocean.” — Ryunosuke Satoro TTF is able to achieve our mission of improving the health and vitality of the TTF […]
Tacony Creek Park Music & Art Festival
Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership and Olney Culture Lab of CultureTrust Greater Philadelphia are happy to present the 3rd edition of the freshly dubbed Tacony Creek Park Music & Art Festival! We […]
Birds of a Feather
Join us for our second FREE “Birds of a Feather” to Celebrate Trails and Earth Day! Talented artists from our community will live paint along the Tacony Creek Park trail, […]
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 […]
Nature Walk with Bernard Brown
Humans aren’t the only animals shaping our creeks and forests. Beavers are busy cutting down trees and building burrows, lodges, and dams on Philadelphia waterways. Join Bernard Brown, author of Exploring […]
2022 Tacony Creek Park Block Parties: Partners & Neighbors
WOW! It’s our 10th year of hosting Block Parties in Tacony Creek Park! This year’s parties were filled with adventure, family, and environmental education. Tacony Creek Park welcomed about 300 attendees […]
Riverfront North Partnership & TTF visit New York City parks!
On Wednesday, April 13, TTF and Riverfront North Partnership staff visited New York, exploring three parks across three boroughs to learn about park planning efforts in other cities. Our first […]
Fish Fest with Riverfront North Partnership
Riverfront North Partnership invites the community to a fun afternoon of all things fish (and all things FREE) at the Frankford Boat Launch on Saturday, May 14th, 12-3pm. We’ll teach […]
Creek Nature Series: “Oh Deer!”
You will get to put together a real deer skeleton using a drawing as a guide. Then we will compare the deer’s skeleton with other skeletons. We will also play […]
CANCELED: Creek Nature Series: “Wetlands and Watersheds”
CANCELED DUE TO EXTREME HEAT Which one of the following 4 does not belong: a floodplain, a marsh, a plateau, a mudflat? In what way is a wetland like a […]
Creek Nature Series: The “Underworld”
Under rocks, under logs, under leaves, lives an impressive variety of tiny creatures that we depend on. Look for these, and examine them closely with magnifiers and microscopes. Use handouts […]
Creek Nature Series: “Creek Study Part 1”
Depending on how calm or wild the Creek is that day we will either explore the physical and chemical characteristics of the Tookany Creek or collect and evaluate the organisms […]
Creek Nature Series: “Creek Study Part 2”
Depending on how calm or wild the Creek is that day we will either explore the physical and chemical characteristics of the Tookany Creek or collect and evaluate the organisms […]
Creek Nature Series: “Scavenger Hunt”
Win points and prizes when you find natural items, using cards from the challenging game “Aqua Marooned”. Search and play by yourself or with a partner. Either way, you are […]
Creek Nature Series: “Game Day”
Play the tag game Bats and Moths, be part of a team in a Relay race, play Hide & Seek, and other games. We will have fun outdoors playing games […]
Bilingual Winter Solstice Nature Walk at Tacony Creek Park
The Winter Solstice, aka “the shortest day of the year” is coming up! Join us on December 18th for a nature walk in Tacony Creek Park. We will walk along […]