Keep the Brandywine Watershed Healthy - Volunteer to Plant Trees on May 2

The Brandywine Conservancy seeks volunteers to help plant 900 trees in Londonderry Township on Saturday, May 2, from 9 a.m. until early afternoon for the organization's Reforestation Campaign. 

No experience is necessary. Volunteers are asked to bring a shovel, mallet and gloves if possible, dress in layers and wear sturdy shoes. 

Planting trees enhances water quality, restores natural flows in the Brandywine, and improves plant and animal habitat. Trees provide food and shelter for life in and around streams, promote absorption of rain into the ground, replenish groundwater supplies, and reduce storm water runoff and downstream flooding. In addition, tree leaves, branches, and roots reduce erosion and prevent excess sediment and nutrients from entering streams during heavy rains.

The Conservancy is midway through its "50 by 50" campaign to plant 50,000 trees by its 50th anniversary in 2017. The campaign targets the vulnerable steep slopes and riparian areas (strips of land immediately adjacent to a stream) because these locations are especially vulnerable to erosion, and, when reforested, are the most effective at filtering sediments and other pollutants before they reach streams, creeks and rivers.

For information or to volunteer, please contact Meredith Mayer at [email protected]" or 610.388.8351.

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The Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art (www.brandywine.org) preserves art and the environment in Pennsylvania and Delaware. The Conservancy preserves the land and water of the Brandywine watershed for the community through source water protection, farmland preservation, and work with local governments. It has permanently protected from development more than 62,000 acres in Chester and Delaware counties in Pennsylvania, as well as New Castle County in Delaware, and holds more than 400 conservation easements, most from landowners who wanted to save their property's natural, scenic and historic resources.