On the Farm with Meghan
As some of you know, I spent the summer interning on an organic farm located in Central Pennsylvania within the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Learning about organic agriculture was a wonderful experience! I wanted to share some photos of my farming internship with you.
Now that I’m back in the GreenTreks office, I’d love to catch up with all of our partners and supporters. Send me a line and fill me in on your summer!
To learn more about the organic farm I interned on, visit the Village Acres Farm website.
A Visit to Bartram’s Garden
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After seeing the wonderful presentation that Bartram’s Garden at Spring into Science Education, I felt inspired to visit the beautiful garden again. Here are some photos from my little escape to that natural oasis!
Visit Bartram’s Garden in West Philadelphia!
Exploring the Weekend Wilderness
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Despite dedicating so much time to educating about our local environments and sharing people’s sustainability stories, it still can be a challenge to carve out some time to enjoy the nature around me. It doesn’t help when it’s freezing cold and the sun sets before six, either! This past weekend, I managed to escape from More >
Interested in Greening Your Roof? Join Queen Village workshop to learn how
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GreenTreks has been all over the city filming various greening efforts i recent months, and this Saturday we’ll be out at the Southwark Queen Village Community Garden as the neighborhood residents put a living roof on the building that houses bee-keeping supplies.
Yup, you’re reading it right: BEE KEEPING SUPPLIES! There are nine hives at the More >
Local Food, Local Music, Local Beverages: Maysie’s Farmfest, June 11 & 12
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Our good friends at Maysie’s Farm Conservation Center are holding their annual Conservation Concert in conjunction with WXPN and they’ve got a great lineup planned, so why not go green by going local, learning something new, and joining the fun!
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While you’re here, check out this video we did as part of our Biodiversity More >
Be Moved to Action: Stories that Change the World on DVD just in time for the Holidays
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We’ve got our online Shop up and running just in time for the Holiday season, so you can now watch entire programs on your big screen television or give them as gifts to family and friends!
If you haven’t been following us for several years, you may not even know about some of the great programs More >
“Green City Teachers” Program gearing up: sign up now to become an eco-educator
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We’re thrilled to announce that the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society is the newest Community Partner in our ever-expanding EcoExpress program, and that we’ll be incorporating EcoExpress into PHS’ Green City Teachers training program, starting this fall.
Green City Teachers dovetails perfectly with EcoExpress, because it is designed to provide Philadelphia educators with the skills necessary to integrate More >
Uncommon Heroes: Your Choice of Fair Trade Can Change the World
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It’s hard to acknowledge that despite our current “economic hardships”, here in the U.S. we enjoy a standard of living that’s unheard of tin the rest of the world. How’s this for a bit of perspective:
Worldwide, more than 3 billion people live on less than $2 a day!
We’re all increasingly concerned with what our products More >
GreenTreks Film to be featured at “The Food Revolution” Community Screening and Panel Discussion Event
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We’ve been all about making the healthy food, healthy environment connection for years and are delighted to have a segment from one of our GreenWorks programs selected for screening at MiND TV’s upcoming event. The segment from Eat Locally, Think Globally features PA’s own multi-generational Milky Way Farm and the decision to go off chemical More >
Searching for Fresh Seasonal Food Just Got Easier
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The Natural Resources Defense Council is always coming up with new tools to keep our green side on the straight and narrow and they’ve recently released a great new EAT LOCAL Feature that helps anyone find what’s fresh and nearby. You can search right from this Widget, or embed it on your Blog, facebook page, More >
The Science is clear: Streamside Buffers improve water quality
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“The science is now clear,” says Bernard Sweeney, PhD, Director of the Stroud Water Research Center, “that widespread implementation of streamside forest buffers is one of the simplest, most cost effective approaches to eliminating many of the problems of the Chesapeake Bay…”
Studies by internationally acclaimed Stroud Water Research Center have shown that healthy forests bordering More >
about 7 months ago
Great article! We will be linking to this
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