Lawn to Meadow Workshop
In this workshop, you will learn the benefits of converting part of your grass lawn into a meadow to beautify your property, attract pollinators, and make local creeks cleaner. Presenters […]
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Lawn to Meadow Workshop
In this workshop, you will learn the benefits of converting part of your grass lawn into a meadow to beautify your property, attract pollinators, and make local creeks cleaner. Presenters […]
Jenkintown Creek Tour: Restoration in your Own Backyard
By Malcolm Bundy, TTF Intern What’s a better way to spend a Saturday then exploring nature in your own backyard? In late June, TTF staff, Streamkeepers, and volunteers joined with […]
Streamside Spruce-Ups: Abington Jr. High School
As we establish more restoration projects to improve our creeks, we need more help to care for them! Our creekside buffers and rain gardens require constant care, including invasive plant […]
Streamside Spruce-Ups: Abington Jr. High School
As we establish more restoration projects to improve our creeks, we need more help to care for them! Our creekside buffers and rain gardens require constant care, including invasive plant […]
Jenkintown Creek Project Tour
We want to show you our award-winning Jenkintown Creek Restoration Project! Please join us to visit sites where we have restored streambanks and enhanced wetlands, planted hundreds of native trees, […]
Jenkintown Creek Project Tour
We want to show you our award-winning Jenkintown Creek Restoration Project! Please join us to visit sites where we have restored streambanks and enhanced wetlands, planted hundreds of native trees, […]
New Rain Garden at Ethel Jordan Park
Blog by Bryan Porten-Willson, TTF intern Protecting and maintaining our waterways is an important responsibility. Humans and animals alike depend on clean water to stay healthy. Fortunately, there are several […]
Cayuga Triangle Rain Garden Completes Circle of Green in Juniata Park
Guest Blog from the Watersheds Blog, Philadelphia Water Department Posted Dec 16, 2016 This article was originally posted here, on the PWD Watersheds Blog. When we build the green tools […]
Why green stormwater management works: exemplary intern research!
By Jack Rosen, TTF Summer Intern Green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) management restores or mimics natural processes provided by vegetation that existed before land disturbance, but preserving this vegetation actually is […]
Nature’s Hidden Surprises: Watershed Dynamics
By TTF Intern Klavdiya Vasylenko In August, TTF joined Judith Gratz for a morning nature walk where we learned about what affects our watershed systems, and engaged in fun educational activities. […]
Milestones Awards: Nonprofit and Corporate Steward
Nonprofit Steward Abington Friends School Abington Friends School has enthusiastically embraced stewardship of Jenkintown Creek, which begins on its campus. Students have been involved in all aspects of the riparian buffer […]
Rain Gardens — Standing Room Only!
By Jon Musselman, Upstream Municipal Watershed Planner TTF hosted a Rain Garden workshop at Abington Friends School (AFS) last week. This program was in response to requests from upstream watershed […]
Jenkintown Creek Restoration Update
By Susan Harris, TTF Project Manager and owner of Cerulean LLC The project goals for the Jenkintown Creek restoration include stormwater management, water quality improvements, and education. Our objective was […]
Urban Waters: New Rain Garden Blooms at Friends Hospital
Earlier this month, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, PowerCorps PHL and TTF worked together to construct a brand new rain garden at Friends Hospital. This was the final hands-on training program […]
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 […]
Featured Watershed Milestones Honoree: NorthEast Treatment Centers
TTF will recognize the following honorees at our third annual Watershed Milestones Award Ceremony & Reception on Wednesday, May 21! Event tickets can be purchased here. NorthEast Treatment Centers Award: TTF Non-Profit Steward NorthEast […]
Earth Month Across Our Watershed
We love to our improve our watershed community and engage watershed stewards each and every day…but we do find April particularly inspiring, as Earth Day has grown into a month […]
Seeing is Believing: Final Green Stormwater Infrastructure Tour a Success!
It’s often said that “seeing is believing.” That’s what our attendees learned through Managing Rainfall: TTF Stormwater Project Tour, our two season innovative green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) project tour series. These fall […]
April showers bring Olney Rec Center’s rain garden flowers… grasses, and shrubs!
Last Saturday, TTF and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) held a successful Philly Spring Clean Up Day and Urban Waters Training Workshop at the Olney Rec Center! Funded by the US Environmental […]
Philadelphia Insurance Companies lunch and learn about watersheds!
Last fall, TTF had the opportunity to make some wonderful new corporate friends, when the ACE Group and Philadelphia Insurance Companies joined us in Vernon Park and at the Maplewood Mall in Germantown for their IICF Week […]
Urban Waters: Philadelphians Show GSI Love
Philadelphians are known for enjoying a day out in their community park helping to tidy up or plant trees. Through the Urban Waters training program, these community members can give […]
An almost secret Rain Garden in Olney
There’s a rain garden hidden behind the Olney Recreation Center! TTF is the leader of this project, which was designed by AKRF, Inc., funded by the Philadelphia Water Department, and […]
Insurance Industry Employees Give Back!
Vernon Park got a lot of love on October 17, as 55 employees from four insurance companies came together in celebration of The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) Week of […]