Framing Community: 2025 Photo Contest and Photo Walk
As someone trained in photography and fortunate enough to call it both a career and a passion, I’ve always found that photography sits at a fascinating crossroads: it’s joyful, but […]
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Capturing the Tacony Creek Park: Announcing the 2025 TTF Photo Contest!
*Para español, deslice hacia el final de la página* TTF Watershed Partnership: 2025 Photo Contest (Join a walk with TTF’s Communications staff member on August 9 for tips, inspiration, and a […]
Splashed into Summer: A Block Party Retrospective
Written by Gouri J. Nair, Jermikah Parkinson, and Maiya Mangum; Edited by Wendi Wu | June 27, 2025 A Cookout Vibe in the Heart of Juniata Park “The Splash into […]
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 […]
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 […]
TreePhilly Spring 2022 Yard Tree Giveaway
TreePhilly and Frankford CDC, Tookany-Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership invite you to plant a tree in your yard! Free trees are available for pick-up or home delivery for residents of the 19120, 19124 and 19149 […]
Tree Tender Get-Together (online)
Join us to talk about the Tree Tenders program and how we can work together to start Tree Tenders groups in neighborhoods around Tacony Creek Park. Get to know your […]
Philly Tree Plan: Growing Our Urban Forest for our watershed neighborhoods
We really care about trees at TTF! Trees are important in so many ways: they absorb and filter stormwater. The cleaner the water and the less of it that gets […]
Friends show love for Friends by planting trees
Earlier this month, over 40 volunteers joined us to plant 260 plus trees and shrubs on the grounds of historic Friends Hospital. (Did you know that the original hospital building […]
Free Trees for your Yard in Frankford!
It’s tree giveaway time again! This fall, we are excited to be partnering with Riverfront North, the Arbor Day Foundation, and Bank of America to bring trees to Frankford! We’ll […]
Free Frankford Tree Give-Away
Green your neighborhood! Plant a tree in your yard! Special thanks to Riverfront North Partnership, Frankford Community Development Corporation, TreePhilly. Made possible by partnership with Bank of America and Arbor […]
Creekmobile gets an upgrade! Watch for it in Tacony Creek Park…
Blog by Christina Maldonado Christine was an Alliance for Watershed Fellow during the summer of 2018. We are so happy to continue to be in touch and work with her. […]
This is Nature – Trees: Their Leaves and Bark
Join us for this free program jointly hosted by TTF and Cheltenham Township. Rock Creek is an important tributary of the Tookany Creek. It is also the site of improvements […]
Discover Intertwined inspiration in Tacony Creek Park
An artistic creation recently came to life in Tacony Creek Park through the work of Artist Sarah Kavage and assistants Brenda Howell and Ann Nguyen, thanks to the Alliance for […]
Virtual (free) Nature Tours Are Just Around the Corner I Giras Virtuales de la Naturaleza (Gratis) Están a la Vuelta de la Esquina
Now that springtime is finally here to stay… and summer is just around the corner, everyone’s excited to get back outside and enjoy the beautiful weather! The TTF watershed is […]
Yo! Don’t Miss our BioBlitz!
By Ryan Neuman, Upstream Conservation Leader From April 24 through May 3, TTF will host our annual BioBlitz! What’s a BioBlitz? A BioBlitz is when people gather or work collectively […]
“Intertwined” Art Installation Week
“Intertwined” Vine Harvest Day
Register HERE | Regístrese AQUÍ Join us to remove, collect and prepare invasive vines that will be used to create temporary sculptures that will be installed in Tacony Creek Park. […]
Valley Talk: Philadelphia’s Urban Forestry Plan
In partnership with Friends of the Wissahickon, we are co-hosting Valley Talk: Philadelphia’s Urban Forestry Plan. Philadelphia’s forest canopy helps absorb air pollution and fight climate change, but it has […]
Eyes on our Landscape: Announcing the 2021 TTF Watershed-wide Photo Contest !
*Para español, deslice hacia el final de la página* TTF Watershed Partnership: 2021 Photo Contest Details & Rules TTF and the Olney Culture Lab are happy to announce our second biannual photo contest, […]
Job Posting: Seeking Assistants for Art & Environment Project
The Alliance for Watershed Education (AWE) is looking for assistants to help create large scale sculptures out of natural materials, at multiple sites in and around Camden/Pennsauken, Philadelphia, and Wilmington, DE during […]
Spotlight on Efforts and Resources in Philly this February for Environmental Justice Month
In 2014, the EPA declared February to be Environmental Justice Month to commemorate the signing of historic 1994 executive order 12898: “Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations.” […]