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Welcome to our Network of Volunteer Greening Enthusiasts in West/Southwest Philadelphia!

Each year, UC Green volunteers plant and tend hundreds of street trees and enhance public green spaces contributing thousands of hours in service to the community.

We invite you to learn more about our programs and how to care for trees and gardens. We hope you will consider supporting our efforts or participating as a volunteer. Thank you for browsing our site and we hope to see you at one of our events.



The Urban Orchard: UC Green's Fall 2011 Street Tree Planting

This fall we are going to take our street tree planting one step further by planting an urban orchard! We're teaming up with the Philadelphia Orchard Project (POP) to plant fruit and nut trees along the streets of West and Southwest Philadelphia. POP works with community-based groups and volunteers to plan and plant orchards in vacant lots, schoolyards, and other neglected urban spaces all over the City of Philadelphia. With their expertise and UC Green's committed volunteer corps, we will plant approximately 100 new fruit and nut street trees in West and Southwest Philadelphia in the Fall of 2011!

SUPPORT THIS PROJECT TODAY
via Kickstarter



MLK Day 2011

2011 MLK Day of Service at Bartram's Garden

For the third consecutive year UC Green has partnered with Bartram's Garden to honor the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. by participating in the nation day of service. This year, despite bitter cold, we managed to:

  • engage and cultivate a diverse group of 108 volunteers;
  • remove more than 2 tons of invasive plant debris from local Schuylkill River wetlands.

Thanks to everyone who helped make the 16th Annual Day of Service a success!
2010 John J. McGarry Award Winner, Joe Shapiro

UC Green is proud to present the 2010 John J. McGarry Award to Joe Shapiro

Given annually by UC Green to an outstanding visionary volunteer the award honors the sustained dedication to community building and the benefits of greening represented in the life, vision and enthusiasm of John J. McGarry (1950-2009), a major founder, supporter and cheerleader for UC Green.


REAL CHANGE: Community volunteers make a difference

From Jan 1- June 30, 2010 UC Green volunteers have:

2010 John J. McGarry Award Winner, Joe Shapiro
  • Planted 98 trees;
  • Prepared 65 tree pits;
  • Held 2 construction workdays, 6 farm workdays, 5 garden workdays, 3 green workshops, 2 maintenance workdays, 2 rec center/playground workdays;
  • Hand pruned 450 trees on 62 city blocks, mulched 67 trees;
  • Removed 12 dead trees + 5 stumps;
  • Removed 135 bags of debris/trash + 30 cubic yards;
  • Donated 56 gallon bags of cuttings to be composted for mulch;
  • Planted perennials/75 flats.

What We've Done In Our First Ten Years

It's been a busy decade for UC Green. Find out how we've been steadily improving the neighborhood we call home.
» 1998 - 09 accomplishments


Are You a Local Property Owner?


»Local PHS Tree Tender group contact information.
» How to contact local greening groups in West Philadelphia..