gardening

Entries welcome from gardeners across PA, NJ, and DE 2019 PHS Gardening Contest is back again, for all skills and garden types from window boxes and planters to school gardens, urban farms and everything in between.  Gardens are judged onsite beginning...

This Spring, join us as we launch the newly revamped Grounded in Philly website, a one-stop online resource ecosystem for the urban agriculture and open space community in Philadelphia. With 40,000 vacant lots in Philadelphia, we aspire to give communities...

Heavier rains and dry periods are making water management in your landscape more challenging.  Whether you must comply with your township’s impermeable surface code or just want to be more earth-friendly, this two-hour lecture will introduce you to a wide...

Help the Schuylkill Center to improve the health and biodiversity of our forest while getting to know the Center’s property, connecting with nature, and making new friends. On workdays, volunteers will remove invasive plants, plant native species, and help to...

Philadelphia City Repair Project hosts the first annual Village Building Convergence (VBC)! Help participate in Community Building and Creative Placemaking across Philadelphia by Day. Project Installations are free to attend, kid friendly, and designed by the community they will serve!...

Lend a hand with the Philadelphia Orchard Project at Awbury Arboretum’s community food forest!  Help out with seasonal tasks to care for the food forest’s diverse fruit trees, berry bushes, pollinator and medicinal plants.  Part of the larger 3rd Saturday volunteer days...

Inspired by the lush gardens and water exhibits at the Philadelphia Flower Show? Bring the magic home! Visit the Fairmount Water Works for a hands-on workshop, where you can make your very own wildflower seed balls, led by Greensgrow Farms....

We come to winter’s edge on the cusp of spring…this is an invitation to take time to savor the barrenness of the landscape; to see nature in all its beauty; to step away and go deeper in your own thoughts....

Join The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education for a full-day of in-depth learning. The day offers a mixture of natural history, environmental art, and humanities. Sessions include urban coyotes, peregrine falcon ecology, environmental art, media and its influence on perceptions...