Fostering a diverse local community by creating and managing a beautiful, bountiful native landscape where all can gather for pleasure, inspiration, and learning together

Over the next two decades, we are transforming a thirty acre plot of land into a resilient, food abundant, and beautiful public garden, exemplifying native Pennsylvania landscapes. We are strengthening this land's natural ecosystems of meadow, successional forest, and existing forest by implementing several different land management strategies, enabling the land's wide variety of existing native vegetation, bird, and animal life to flourish. Our immediate and most pressing goal is removing invasive plant species currently preventing native species from thriving and multiplying; over the next several years, we're eradicating these invasive species via mowing and manually cutting down and digging out roots. Lastly, we will expand the healthy, established habitats by planting more food-bearing or food-supporting native trees, shrubs, and perennials as well as filling in areas previously occupied by invasive species with new native plantings, and, as funds allow, seed selected meadow seed in the sections of cleared land. As we encourage the resiliency and vitality of the land, we hope to accentuate the beauty and pleasing aesthetics of the varying gardens in the landscape for the enjoyment of the community and visitors, while also providing an abundance of fruits, nuts, and seeds for animals and visitors alike.