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  • $50.00 – Program Price; includes lunch

Date & Time Details: Saturday, November 12, 2022, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Location: Cranaleith Spiritual Center

Address: 13475 Proctor Road, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Contact: programs@cranaleith.org

All are welcome: Request scholarship.

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Gardening for the Birds and Insects: Native Tree Planting & Reflection

Greg Williams

November 12, 2022

Do you want to do something to turn climate change around?  The Chesapeake Bay Foundation has partnered with Pennsylvania Interfaith Power and Light to plant ten million native trees and shrubs in Pennsylvania by 2025.  Cranaleith is joining this project with a day of learning, planting native trees and reflection here in the “sanctuary of trees.”

Greg will start the day with some wisdom from Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, and leading us in the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address.  Greg will also share his evolving understanding of the many fruitful paths to impact climate change and why he feels called to habitat restoration.  He will introduce us to entomologist Doug Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home and the work of Drawdown.org.  The morning will end with a description of how hundreds of volunteers have tagged, distributed, and planted 10,000 native trees and shrubs across Pennsylvania this fall and how attendees can be involved in a similar process next spring and beyond.

After lunch, we will learn the how’s and why’s of tree planting as we plant and stake about forty trees provided by Chesapeake Bay Foundation.  We will close our time together with reflections on the day and a prayer circle of thanksgiving.

We are hoping for good weather but please come prepared for planting in light rain and getting somewhat wet.  We will stay inside if weather is too cold or wet or there is a threat of lightning. Dress to get dirty, wearing layers of clothing, long pants and long sleeve shirts, and socks and good footwear for digging.

Facilitator

Greg Williams
Greg Williams was an environmental educator in California, Ohio and Philadelphia for most of his thirty-year career as a teacher/administrator in elementary and middle school settings.  His retirement job is to try and make the world safer for his grandchildren and all the children he knew and taught.  Greg served…
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