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Spring Fest
April 18 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Join us for our annual, rain-or-shine celebration of spring in the Garden. Enjoy this year’s free, family-friendly itinerary:
- 10—11am: Medicinal Herbs plant walk with Garden Ecology Youth Coordinator and Building Your Home Apothecary Instructor Dominique Matti. Please register in advance for this free tour here.
- 10am—2pm: Bartram’s Garden Historic Archives Show and Tell
- 11am–12pm: Solo vibraphone performance by Hudson River
- 11am–2pm: Firstival celebration with 52 Weeks of Firsts
- 12—1pm: Indigenous History Teach-in with Lenape Research Fellow, Ciara Williams
- 1–2pm: Son Jarocho performance by Son Revoltura Music Collective
Plus, all-day activities like:
- The Bartram’s Garden Plant Nursery season opening and sale. Check out our 2026 plant and seed catalog here!
- Community partner fair and vendors
- Seed Swap with the youth team from the Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden
- Open Bartram House featuring Back to My Roots art exhibition by Terrence L. Gore
- Kids’ activities such as face painting and paper flower crown crafts
- Gardening book exchange with the Free Library of Philadelphia
- TreePhilly tree giveaway
