March 30, 2025

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March

Cleanup Season Has Begun!

With the arrival of spring, it's time to roll up our sleeves and make a difference! I’m grateful to have kicked off the season by organizing and participating in two impactful cleanups. We started with a light warm-up at South Ardmore Park, before tackling a more challenging site—an off-ramp from Route 76 West at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. This spot, one I often drive past, had been badly littered, but we set out to change that.

Here’s what it looked like before we got to work:

And here are the results!

Mindset

“Nature-study cultivates in the child a love of the beautiful . . . a perception of color, form and music . . But more than all, nature-study gives the child a sense of companionship with life out-of-doors and an abiding love of nature.”
― Anna Botsford Comstock, The Handbook of Nature Study

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Razvan