GGC News

"What's Up, Watershed?", a blog started in 2024 by the Pennsylvania Resources Council's Environmental Program Coordinator Chris Bunn, has been uploaded in its entirety to the Growing Greener Communities website! This bi-monthly blog is all about Pennsylvania watersheds, what goes on in them, and how we can protect them--told with anecdotes from its author(s). Previous topics have included easy conservation methods like live-staking and leaving the leaves, the lives of native

The GGC Tool Library is stocked with shovels, rakes, levels, and other gardening supplies needed to DIY your home’s green stormwater infrastructure.

Live staking offers a free and easy way to protect our streams from pollution, create wildlife habitat, and ease flooding in our communities. This past February, I followed Stephen Lockard of the Tree Tenders of Upper Darby as he led a live staking workshop in Smedley Park, Delaware County. What is live staking, you may ask? Live staking is a method of repairing streams that involves planting live cuttings of native trees and shrubs into stream banks for the purpose of stabi

Join us on March 1st in Haverford, PA to learn how to build your own rain garden! Click here to learn more and register!