With the heat wave behind us there is nothing better than taking a stroll outside after a museum visit!

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This past week I decided to go on a walk and take in the Brandywine sights. The River Trail takes you along the Brandywine floodplain, and felt quite refreshing! It’s about one mile roundtrip, and takes you to the meadow across from John Chads house.

Recently about 30 volunteers and employees participated in planting native grasses and shrubs on the campus of the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art in hopes to reduce storm-water runoff and improve water quality. 

Once the plants mature, they will begin using more water. This will reduce runoff, and I’m personally curious to see how it affects those dreaded flood days!

Another goal of theirs is to create a trail network from the museum to the N.C Wyeth and Andrew Wyeth studio to the Kuerner Farm! This is exciting news to me and I hope it happens soon! Who else would be interested in exploring those future trails?

For more information check out Chadds Ford Live's article on the Conservancy

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