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Green Wagon Project

July 8, 2024 by

Green Wagon Project

Green Wagon Project

Mission Statement

Our goal is to educate and to share resources with our neighbors in the Greater Media communities about the value of pesticide-free and herbicide-free native gardens and landscapes, and to inspire and facilitate pesticide-free/herbicide-free native gardening/landscaping in yards.

What is Green Wagon Project?

We renovate and retrofit second-hand wagons, develop and curate written resources, and have designed a program to share native plants and tree seedlings, attractive children’s activities, and just fun things found in nature—all free for pedestrian passers-by.

Green Wagon Origin Story: The Keep Media Green Canopy Committee was inspired by the Little Free Library movement to create the Green Wagon Project. Now that Keep Media Green has dissolved, we are now under the Transition Town Greater Media umbrella.

The idea of the Green Wagon is spreading organically. Springfield Township and West Chester have started Green Wagon Projects in their towns. Our group is available to help anyone get started.

The Habitat Helpers group is a sub-group of the Green Wagon Project consisting of gardening activists who are willing to volunteer and help neighbors and community gardens with gardening projects.   We have conducted weeding events for local parks and helped Sterling Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center to create raised platform garden beds so that residents could easily conduct gardening projects without having to work at the ground level. 

RESOURCE LINKS

National Audubon Society—Bird Friendly Native Plants

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center—Native Plant Database

National Wildlife Federation—Native Plants Finder

Xerces Society-Pollinator Conservation Resources

Pennsylvania Native Plant Society

Impact Highlights

2024 will be our third year for our initiative, with 7 wagons around Media Borough, one in Upper Providence, and another in Middletown Township. We are collaborating with a Green Wagon in Virginia Beach, VA.

Over the last 12 months, Green Wagoners gave away 1004 perennial plants and 110 trees plus hundreds more plants that were donated. Building the Wagons has taken over 100 hours of volunteer time. Potting parties hosted about 12 volunteers putting in over 40 hours. Countless hours were spent organizing the pottings and stocking the wagons, both by the Green Wagon volunteers and the Wagon host families.

The Habitat Helpers:

  • – Created a raised platform garden for local healthcare and rehab center
  • – Weeded a public park and public bumpouts
  • – Planted 50 private and public trees and counting (as of Fall, 2024)
  • – Put in over 500 hours of volunteer time (as of Fall, 2024)

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Contact

Julie Smith

Julie Smith

Green Wagon Project Lead
Media Tree Tenders Lead
greenwagon@ttgmpa.org

[email protected]

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Circle of Aunts & Uncles

Community Resilience

Cool Blocks/Cool Cities

Fire Circles

Foraging

Green Wagon Project

Inner Transformation

Local Food

Media FreeStore

Protecting Biodiversity

Tree Lovers Collective

Tree Tenders

Zero Waste

TTGM Partnerships

Bee City

Composting

Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers

Native Seed Library

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