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Phoenixville Green Team's Monthly Forum This Wednesday

For March, the Phoenixville Green Team is featuring three gardening presentations during their March forum.

The New American Garden

Donald Pell - Owner, Donald Pell Gardens
The New American Garden, New Perennials Movement, New Wave Planting, the Four‐Season Garden, call it what you will, it's new methodology based on old ideas. These innovative and exciting nature herbaceous plants are coming to our local landscape gardens. Donald will discuss new natural garden designs and the new (and old varieties) that can create needed habitat in your garden for birds, bees and butterflies.

Phoenixville Community Gardens

Jessica Sanchez and the Seventh Wonder
Seventh Wonder is a volunteer group committed to working toward a better world. Their newest project is developing a community garden in the Boro of Phoenixville. Come out and hear about this startup garden’s progress, and see if you are interested in being a part of this first year effort.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Seventh‐Wonder/166754526729868

FOOD FOR ALL – Building local gardens to feed the hungry

Free garden start‐up funding for 50% share of yield
Laureen Blood
“Food for All” is a project of Triskeles that invites your organization to become part of a network committed to helping alleviate the growing hunger and poverty in our area. We will install beautiful raised garden beds at no cost to your organization. We will train you to plant and care for them through the first growing season, in exchange for a commitment from you to tend the beds and donate half of the produce to those in need.

Monthly forums are held on the 3rd floor of Molly Maguire's beginning at 7pm. Note, this venue is not ADA-compliant.
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