Join us along the beautiful Tinicum Creek to begin our first phase of ecological restoration Working Learnshops. A chance to learn, work, and commune, these upcoming four sessions will teach vital understanding and skills for 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 local summer camp’s ground (a 60-acre permanently protected property), we will start by pulling Japanese stiltgrass by the handful and by the truckload. Stiltgrass is so very easy (and satisfying ) to pull, even your kids can do it! This is a critical time period to pull this nonnative and highly invasive grass, before it goes to seed. The areas cleared of stiltgrass will become our palette for restoration planting sites (and future working learnshop series) this fall and next spring. 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.
To register, email kgermann@tinicumconservancy.org
FOR THURSDAY, September 11th and SATURDAY, September 13th, both from 9:30AM-12PM:
Please contact us for the Waiver to Participate. Email it back or we will accept it when you arrive
Please try to arrive by 9:20 AM, no later than 9:30 AM
We will have work gloves, but feel free to bring your own if you wish.
We will be working in a partly sunny area with knee/thigh-high vegetation. Please dress accordingly and use sunscreen and bug-spray as you require.
We plan to finish at approx 11:30
STAY FOR LUNCH!
Please bring your lunch if you’d like to join us to rest, eat, connect and learn after we’re done working. This is a new Learning Workshop initiative for Tinicum Conservancy and your feedback is valuable for us to continue improving the experience for all.
If you need to get in touch: kgermann@tinicumconservancy.org
POOR WEATHER?: Heavy rain and/or thunder forecast cancels! Please look for a follow-up email by 8AM the morning of if the weather forecast is poor.