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Your adult, youth, work, church, or civic group is invited to participate in any number of projects at Camphill Special School.

At different times throughout the year we have such needs as:

• Landscaping, mowing, weeding, or planting
• Construction or maintenance of walking trails
• Painting (interior and exterior) and decorating
• Maintenance or construction projects

Each year Camphill Special School also has been the grateful recipient of corporate teams that come to us through United Way’s Day of Caring.

Every autumn volunteers from Vanguard participate in United Way Day of Caring

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For more information about whether your group would be a good match for one of current needs, please send an email or call 610.469.9236 x132.

Green Valleys Association and Girl Scouts restore creek at Beaver Farm

By Guy Alma

One of the environmental concerns we are addressing in our building project at Beaver Farm is that of watershed protection. Rain gardens will form ecosystems that prevent storm water runoff into French Creek, the southern boundary of our property, and cisterns will harvest rainwater from our roofs for agricultural re-use.

Center Creek, however, is a tributary that flows into French Creek through Beaver Farm’s fields. Denuded over the years, it badly needed restoration so that with more trees along its banks it could once again function as a riparian buffer, cleaning pollutants and preventing erosion from storm water runoff.  

Green Valleys Association, which oversees 155 square miles of all five of Chester County’s northern and eastern Schuylkill River watersheds, and the Girl Scouts came to our rescue! On April 24th, under the watchful eyes of GVA’s Margot Taylor and John Hoekstra, the Scouts planted three hundred native trees along the creek.  

Margot commented “Special thanks to Bartlett Tree Company whose support was pivotal, moving plants and materials to the sites; Octoraro Nursery, that found time to squeeze in a plant delivery in the middle of their busy season; and the PA Landscape and Nurserymen Association, who supplied the coveted Scouting "patch" commemorating the day.” 

As for me, I already can imagine what everything will look like in ten years when the creek is beautiful and healthier, with so much more wildlife living in and around it. We send huge thanks to GVA for fighting the good fight for clean waterways and winning the battle little by little and most of all, extend our fondest appreciation to all those young hands and hearts who have planted a piece of our future at Beaver Farm.