Brandywine Red Clay Alliance

Today we celebrate World Water Day as we prepare for the Red Clay Valley Clean Up this weekend. If you are looking for ways to help clean up the waterways in our area, join us this weekend for the clean up https://fb.me/e/243OOHHf9 or visit https://www.worldwaterday.org/learn

Geese enjoying the first day of Spring on the Brandywine.

BRC partnered with staff from Univ. of Delaware Water Resources and Chester County Water Resources to assist the PA Fish and Boat Commission in stocking trout on the west branch of the Brandywine at Hibernia Park.

BRC is pleased to join the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership in an ambitious endeavor to plant 10 million trees throughout Pennsylvania by 2025. We’re partnering with the Chester County Conservation District to distribute the trees to Chester County landowners. These 2,000 trees that arrived this week are all accounted for, but you can learn more about a fall tree distribution by contacting the conservation district later this spring. http://www.tenmilliontrees.org/... https://www.chesco.org/205/Conservation-District

The Red Clay Valley Clean Up will continue its decades long tradition in 2021, though in a modified, covid-19 safe format. This effort is even more critical than in years past due to recent flooding events, and that most routes have not been cleaned in almost two years. Volunteers will be limited to a total of 250, and groups/family pods will be limited to 10 people who will be asked to follow safety protocols. For more information or to sign up, please visit our FB event page.

No limit on the heights Exec. Dir. Jim Jordan will go to for BRC!

BRC is so grateful for all of the support we have received throughout the years from our local businesses. We hope, when you shop for the holidays that you can #shoplocal and #shopsmallbusiness to help keep our community strong.

Scrape, smash and squash is all you need to know if you find Spotted Lanternfly egg masses while you’re cleaning up your yard this winter. Be sure to NOT cut their favorite host tree, the invasive Tree of Heaven, even if it was treated with herbicide. Any living roots can result in hundreds of new tree sprouts. Look for a workshop in spring 2021 from BRC on what we’ve learned about managing SLF on our property, and for more information about the egg masses, check out: https://news.psu.edu//penn-state-experts-address-what-shou Photo Credit: Penn State Extension, E. Swackhamer

Did you know that you can have your property certified as a Watershed Friendly Yard? This program is sponsored by the Penn State Extension and the Nurture Nature Center and recognizes landowners for the effort they put into their properties regarding water resource management, conservation and wildlife support. For more information on this program, please visit: https://nurturenaturecenter.org/programs/community/wfp-cert/

This #givingtuesday make your Annual Campaign gift online to QUADRUPLE your impact on BRC’s watershed conservation and environmental education efforts. Thanks to two local donors and the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, your gift of $25 could become $100 to work towards BRC's mission! https://bit.ly/3q2tE9d

Check in with us tomorrow for #givingtuesday and find out how your money can be matched in our #givingchallenge.