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Community Pollinator Garden Planting Day 1: Johnsontown Park
May 17 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Join the Restore Our Roots group as we plant the first layer of the new community garden at Johnsontown Park! No prior experience needed, and all ages welcome.
Please RSVP so we can contact you in case we need to move to the rain date. More details are below!
Date: Saturday, May 17th (Rain Date: May 18th)
PS. We also have a second event to plant on May 31st (same RSVP as above)
Time: 9am-noon (may go longer depending on amount of people power; come for as little or long as you’d like)
Where: Johnsontown Park in Downingtown (Viaduct Avenue; by the bridge that crosses over E. Branch Brandywine Creek)
What to bring: work gloves, shovel, trowel (we will also have some of these available), water bottle/snacks.
What to wear: Dress for bending and planting in the soil! Sunscreen, hat, etc.
Questions? email us at Restoreourroots@gmail.com
Special thank you to our partners for making this project possible:
PA Native Plant Society for grant funding
MSE Landscape Associates, Mark Eberhardt; Principal Landscape Designer in partnership with ROR & the Downingtown Shade Tree Commission
Downingtown Borough & Public Works for boulders, leaf mulch, cardboard storage and for all the support
All of our community volunteers
