For six days in late April, we invite any interested area residents to help us plant over 100 life-supporting native trees & shrubs along Tinicum Creek as part of a major habitat restoration project. Please join us in this magnificent sylvan setting to help realize the revitalizing vision for this section of the stream begun by last summer’s campers and refined and developed since by native ecological landscape architect David Hughes of Weatherwood Design.
Using a beautiful and diverse native planting plan designed specifically for this project area, this series of learning workshops represents the first of several stages of native plantings for this restoration project. We have some tools, gloves, and equipment for participants to borrow, but if you have a spade shovel, gloves, wire cutters, and/or mallet of your own, please bring them
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A chance to learn, work, and commune, these working learnshop sessions will teach vital understanding and skills to landscape and build habitat for wildlife and good health, all of which you could apply on your own property. Sessions will incorporate learning and action to build your understanding of the characteristics, benefits and growing preferences of diverse native plants, along with instruction and opportunity to plant them to flourish. If time allows, we may also delve into identifying and remediating stubborn invasive plant species that often crowd out the native plants which support the living creatures needed by the food web we all share.