An Invitation for 2026 Stewardship Volunteers & Learners
Join us this spring along the beautiful Tinicum Creek to begin our second phase of ecological restoration Working Learnshops. On our first day at the camp, we will be walking the entire beautiful creekside in search of an invasive plant called Poison hemlock (yes, the poison hemlock of Socrates fame!). You will learn how to identify this invasive and poisonous plant, learn about safe handling and management techniques, and help mark it locations for future treatment.
You (and any interested youngsters aged 10+) are invited to join us for any or all of the sessions in our upcoming series of Working Learnshops to restore ecosystems in a riparian floodplain along beautiful Tinicum Creek.
WHAT ARE WE DOING?
A chance to learn, work, and commune, these working learnshop sessions will teach vital understanding and skills including remediating invasive plant species in preparation for restoring a degraded ecosystem to a more diverse, native one – skills that can be used on your very own property! Focused on a demonstration-restoration area along Tinicum Creek within a permanently protected 60-acre campground, we began in 2025 by cutting invasive shrubs and pulling invasive Japanese stiltgrass by the handful and by the truckload! The areas cleared of these invasive plants will become our palette for restoration planting sites and learning workshops this spring, summer and fall. These demonstration-restoration areas are just the beginning of a multi-year, multi-property effort we’re planning to restore and renew healthy native ecology along and within Tinicum Creek.
STAY FOR LUNCH!
Please bring your lunch if you’d like and join us to rest, eat, connect and learn after we’re done working. Camp Galil has indoor plumbing. There may be baked goods… please feel free to bring a treat to share. Hopefully, Mother Nature will bring us some much-needed lovely spring weather!
WHEN?
Every other Tuesday and Saturday, from March to June! (unless otherwise rescheduled)
Click the link to register: https://forms.gle/TQMaoCf52hHKwBs26