Spring community gathering, Saturday, March 22 from 9:00-11:00 at Plymouth Friends Meeting
Join us on the first Saturday of spring to learn how you can get involved with Journeywork! Enjoy a talk and Q&A by Sam Makler, Nursery Manager at the Collins Nursery of Temple Ambler Arboretum. Sam is super-knowledgeable and will be discussing unusual and underused native plants. Bring some seeds to swap if you have them, and trade planting tips, stories, and questions over coffee and bagels.
Tickets are $15 in advance, $10 for members (use the discount code on your membership card).
Past events
Saturday, January 18 invasive species removal at Harriet Wetherill Park in Plymouth Meeting with volunteers from Community Canopy Project
Saturday, November 23 tree planting, part 2 at Gwynedd Friends Meeting
Saturday, November 16 invasive species removal and tree planting at Gwynedd Friends Meeting
Saturday, November 3 our first fall community gathering at Plymouth Friends Meeting
We had a very busy summer! In late July our volunteers returned to tend the new meadow at Plymouth Meeting Friends School, and we threw four Not-a-Lawn Parties in July & August in North Wales, East Norriton, and Lower Gwynedd. Four yard owners with gardens designed and installed by Journeywork welcomed visitors to check out how things were growing, ask questions, and sip lemonade; our founder Paige Menton was on hand to share information about the process, the prep, and the plants.
Saturday, August 17 and Sunday, August 18 not-a-lawn parties in Lower Gwynedd (above), East Norriton (bottom left), and North Wales (bottom right)
Monday, July 29 weeding and mulching in the new meadow at Plymouth Meeting Friends School
Saturday, July 27
not-a-lawn party in North Wales
Sunday, June 9 planting pollinator plants in full sun garden beds in North Wales
Sunday, June 2 adding native flowers to the shrubs we planted in Lower Gwynedd
Saturday, June 1 and Wednesday, June 5 planting a meadow at Plymouth Meeting Friends School with a grant from the Xerces Society
Saturday, May 19 planting a woodland garden at Gwynedd Friends School with a grant from the Hardy Plant Society/Mid-Atlantic Group
Thursday, May 9 planting a pollinator garden at the Crefeld School
Tuesday, May 7 Our first plant grant recipients planting a pollinator garden at Fox Chase Farm
Monday, May 6 planting a pollinator garden in Jamison
Sunday, April 28 planting irises, blue mistflower, and other native flowers in a yard in East Norriton
“Get Started This Spring: Tips (and Help!) for Creating Healthy Wildlife Habitat in Your Yard” presentations sponsored by Wyncote Audubon Society at Pennypack Environmental Center on 4/2, the Schuylkill Center on 4/4, Plymouth Meeting Friends on 4/16, and Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust on 5/2.
Sunday, April 14 planting shrubs in Lower Gwynedd
Saturday, March 23, 2024 first Journeywork community gathering at Gwynedd Friends Meeting
Saturday, December 9, 2023 sheet mulching in Lower Gwynedd
Sunday, November 19 sheet mulching in Lower Gwynedd
Saturday, September 16 planting a shade garden in Fort Washington
Monday, August 28 removing invasive species in Lower Gwynedd
Saturday, June 17 planting at Gwynedd Friends Meeting
Monday, May 29 planting at Gwynedd Friends Meeting
Sunday, May 28 not-a-lawn party in Upper Gwynedd
Saturday, May 27 planting in Upper Gwynedd
Sunday, May 7 planting in Plymouth Meeting
Friday, May 5 and Saturday, May 6 planting in East Norriton
Saturday, April 29 table at Ambler EAC’s EarthFest
Saturday, April 22 tables at Upper Moreland EAC Earth Day Fair and Hatboro Earth Day Celebration
Sunday, March 26 from 4-5:30: sheet mulching in Upper Gwynedd to extend an existing garden
Saturday, March 18 from 9-11:00: sheet mulching in Plymouth Meeting to create new planting beds
Friday, February 10 from 12-2:00 and Saturday, February 11 from 1:00-3:00: clearing out a woodland understory that is full of invasive amur honeysuckle and multiflora rose so that we can plant native shrubs and flowers in the spring!
Saturday, November 5 from 10-12:00: sheet mulching in Lower Gwynedd to create a sensory garden with elderberry and currants
Sunday, October 23 from 12-5: removing wineberry and transplanting golden ragwort and wild ginger in a North Wales backyard
Sunday, September 18 from 3-4:30: our first not-a-lawn party to highlight great pollinator plants for sun and shade
Saturday, September 17 from 9-3: planting in our first yard!
Friday, April 29: planting a pollinator garden with third graders at Penn Charter
