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ShiverQuest is BACK! Join us for some Fall fun at Riverbend. What is ShiverQuest? ShiverQuest is a family-friendly way to enjoy the fun of our event in your own home and safely at Riverbend. Here’s How it Works: Purchase a...

420 Vegan Music Fest at One Art Community Center “We Love Flowers, We Love Food, and We Love Music” About this event Diamond Cuts (Unisex Barbershop) and Sunflower Spacecakes (Four Twenty Vegan Company and Owner of The Lair Social Club)...

Come celebrate Earth Day 2021 with LandHealth Institute by attending this week’s Urban-Eco Wonderwalk: Earth Day Wildflowers and Lenni-Lenape Reflections in the Wissahickon! RSVP through the link below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyzHYG6j0wa0unQohrUpMdxsQeyFYguCtNrHqHJ3mY8qofIw/viewform Where: Forbidden Drive by the trailhead at the intersection of Forbidden...

As we say goodbye to April showers and hello to May flowers, you too can bloom and grow by taking part in the Philadelphia City Nature Challenge, a 4-day bio-blitz where cities worldwide see who can record the most wildlife....

Explore the Delaware River with Independence Seaport Museum’s Eco Tours Years ago, the Delaware River was full of poop… literally. A mix of unprocessed sewage, blood from slaughterhouses, oil from refineries and toxic waste from chemical companies created a dead...

Can staying indoors be hazardous to your health? As someone who just spent Memorial Day Weekend camping and outdoors, it’s easy to see the benefits of spending time unplugged. Although it was a little tricky not to send a few...

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...

Help plant a brand new POP orchard at Union Baptist Church!  In addition to planting diverse fruit trees and berry bushes, we’ll be spreading a mountain of mulch and compost in preparation for new food forest plantings.

Celebrate Earth Day at POP’s food forest orchard at Fairmount Park’s Horticultural Center. Volunteers will help mulch and tend to the orchard, and POP will lead tours and have some of our favorite orchard trees, shrubs, and herbs for sale...