LOVE Your Park

This Saturday 94 parks around Philadelphia will receive "tender loving care" from volunteers, because of the LOVE Your Park event. One park in particular, Liberty Lands, on 3rd street in Northern Liberties is featured in the article. This park used to be the site of a tannery and the land had to go through an intense cleaning process to be deemed safe by the Environmental Protection Agency, over 20 years ago. The space was originally going to be developed, but that failed so it was turned into a park instead. The park has a butterfly garden, a Native American herb garden, two murals picnic tables and benches and over 180 trees. One eco-friendly aspect of the park is the sustainable storm water management system. This system keeps the rain water from overflowing the city sewers. The rain water is funneled into a rain garden where it then drains into an underground cistern that gardeners can use to water their plots in the community garden.

This sounds like an interesting event, and this park sounds like a neat park to go look at if you have the time.