Tag: Volunteers
Celebrating Our Volunteers: An Evening of Appreciation
On February 19, Heritage Conservancy staff and volunteers gathered at Aldie Mansion to celebrate the dedicated volunteers who make our work possible. “You don’t just support Heritage Conservancy, you bring…
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Meet “Fridays in the Forest” Volunteers Vicky and John Garrison
Retirees Vicky and John Garrison were looking for an organization where they could give back to their community while spending time outdoors. They found that opportunity in our “Fridays in…
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A Community Effort: Plantings Across Our Nature Preserves
This summer and fall, Heritage Conservancy planted more than 2,000 native trees, shrubs, and wildflowers across our preserves, and it took an entire community to make it happen. From restoration…
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Helping Heritage Conservancy’s Nature Preserves: Troop 71 Reaches Major Service Milestone
Above: Scouts of Troop 71 construct boardwalk at Jackson Pond Preserve. Troop 71 of Doylestown was busy this past summer! The local Boy Scout troop took on two major projects…
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Bucks County Artist Jane Ramsey Captures the Local Landscapes — and Helps Protect Them
If you are driving the backroads and farmland around Upper Bucks, watch for a woman in a sunhat at an easel. Bucks County artist Jane Ramsey stops wherever she finds…
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Volunteer Spotlight: Nancy Fawley is Preserving Bucks County History, One Scan at a Time
For the past three years, volunteer Nancy Fawley has played a vital role at Heritage Conservancy by preserving and digitizing Historic Resource Surveys — documents mostly from the 1980s and…
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Community Science Recap: The Year That Counted
What is Community Science? It is scientific data and projects that are collected and undertaken by the public — not just scientists and biologists, but everyday people out in the…
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Heritage Conservancy’s First Pawpaw Festival Brings Out a Crowd
On a sunny Saturday earlier this month, almost 90 people joined us for our first-ever Pawpaw Festival, a celebration of the local fruit and other native trees and plants. “I…
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7 Ideas to Help Raise Eco-Conscious Kids
The environmental challenges that we face across the globe are daunting and overwhelming for us as adults to navigate, I can only imagine how helpless kids may feel about some…
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Volunteer Appreciation Celebration
We gathered together at Aldie Mansion to celebrate our volunteers during our September 13th Volunteer Appreciation Celebration. “Our volunteers are the backbone of our work and help us provide for…
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BioBlitz Results Released in New Documentary
Photo by Kara Foran. This past spring, Heritage Conservancy hosted a BioBlitz event at our Croydon Woods Nature Preserve. This 24-hour biological survey was a huge success as staff, biologists,…
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Heritage Conservancy’s Farm to Table Fundraiser Nets Over $85,000
Our Russell-Mandel Preserve at sunset, as a hot air balloon passes above the celebration. Photo by JP De Guzman. On a perfect July evening, 200 people joined us for our…
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Historic Aldie Mansion
85 Old Dublin Pike
Doylestown, PA 18901
