Journeywork

Journeywork volunteers tagged all the plants today to match the garden maps for full sun and dry shade gardens. We are ready for Pollinator Palooza tomorrow!

The Montgomery Township EAC then loaded up 50 plant sets to distribute to residents who signed up for their generous lawn replacement program. The EAC sponsored free plant sets to encourage residents to replace some of their lawn with native plants.

I am grateful to the volunteers who helped out today, the Montgomery Township EAC who organized and promoted our plant distribution this evening, and the residents who are supporting more local wildlife with new pollinator gardens!

Our volunteers finished sorting plants today and got our tags ready for Pollinator Palooza. Almost 6,000 plants divided into 213 trays, 7 native species in each, 28 plants per set. And 1,491 color-coded popsicle sticks!

Many thanks to everyone who helped today!

Spring Pollinator Palooza plants are ready to start sorting, thanks to the diligent Journeywork volunteers who caravanned with me to pick them up from the kind, hard-working folks !

Not only did everyone work seamlessly to load and unload 129 flats of plants, they all agreed to pose for pictures.

Thanks to all our drivers and to the staff !

Journeywork helped two local churches add almost 600 native plants to their grounds yesterday!

Journeywork volunteers worked with members of the First Presbyterian Church in Germantown to add native plants in every planting bed in front of the church, including under a beautiful blooming yellowwood tree.

We are coming back on Sunday, May 17 to replace some of their lawn with a pollinator garden near new raised vegetable beds.

Then we went to plant 392 plants at Christ's Community Church in Drexel Hill, where a lawn used to be. Members of the church worked hard to get every plant in the ground and watered before a few raindrops fell.

These churches will offer an alternative example to their communities of how they can manage their grounds with dense native plantings that will not need mowing or annual mulch applications.

Thanks to everyone who came out to plant!

Journeywork is excited to welcome John Mark Courtney, founder and owner , as the speaker for our second Summer Solstice Evening.

John will share stories of his experiences growing native plants, take questions, and then lead a guided walk through the meeting grounds, observing and celebrating native plants along the way.

Delicious refreshments and conversation will precede and follow the talk. Bring your lawn chairs and join us for a relaxing and inspiring evening.

The Summer Solstice Evening is our biggest fundraising event and supports our plant grant program to schools and other nonprofit organizations.

For more information and tickets:

https://journeywork.org/summer-solstice-lecture