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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
*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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]