We are excited to announce that Friends of Jefferson Square Park will be joining with the City of Philadelphia for the 2024 Philly Spring Cleanup Day.
This year, the city is celebrating 17-years of community cleaning partnerships, and we are proud to participate and show our park some neighborhood love. The 2024 PSC will be held on Saturday, April 6, 2024.
This event will replace the ongoing Second Saturday park cleanup for April
A very special Thank You to Queen Village Neighbors Association (IG: @qvnaorg) for awarding Spring and Fall 2023 Community Grants to the Friends of Jefferson Square!
The combined $3,900 grant totals covered partial costs for two days of work towards tending to our historic trees, with FoJSP contributing $1,000 to the effort. Crew 7 at Liberty Tree & Landscape Management (IG: @libertytree_landscapemgmt) added a third day pro-bono. Work included culling out dead wood, taking weight off of heavy limbs at risk of tearing or falling, and improving pedestrian safety.
While Liberty was doing their work, one of our volunteers with Friends of Jefferson Square Park spent those three days doing winter pruning, general landscaping, and removing Spotted Lanternfly eggs. 
Thank you again for the Spring and Fall 2023 QVNA Community Grant Program for this wonderful opportunity for us to keep our park green and healthy! And a special thank you for the team at Liberty Tree and Landscape Maintenance for getting us off on a great start to 2024!
And thank you to everyone who volunteers to help us maintain the park! Want to help out? Come and join us on the second Saturday of each month (starting up in March) with park clean-up and general maintenance.
Hello from the Beautification lead for Jefferson Square Park.
Have you wondered what activities contribute to the maintenance, care, and beautification of the park? The Friends of Jefferson Square Park leads volunteer activities and efforts nearly every month of the year to attend to the park, and keep it as a vital community green space. Each season offers a new way to engage and care for the park, and ensure its continued enjoyment.
In the early spring, the focus is on getting the twenty-one flower beds in the park ready for a great year. We clean out dead material, trim, and put down compost to feed the plants and donated perennial flowers. We also rake out the lawns, spread compost for the grass, take care of downed tree limbs and litter from the winter, and prune the roses. We put down mulch, check on the new tree saplings, and try to give the park the best start at the year that we can. Spring is a busy time of year!
During the summer months, we work on clearing weeds, addressing litter both within and around the exterior of the park, and try to keep the park as clean as possible.
By autumn, the leaves are coming down and we have lots to bag and send off-site for the city’s leaf composting program. With all of the beautiful trees in the park, the leaves are copious. Autumn is also a great time for us to put in donated shrubs and perennial plants from individuals in the community, and reseed the lawns if we have hands to do it. By winter, everything gets a rest, and if it’s one of the years we have funds for tree care then we arrange for those activities.
If you’re interested in coming out for a one-shot volunteer day, or for several months of the year, we always have a need for extra hands and all activity levels are more than welcome. Thank you for keeping the park cleaner than when you arrived, and please join us any second Saturday of the month (except August), to lend a hand in keeping the park beautiful.
Saturday, November 14th, your neighbors joined in for our regular monthly clean up, only this month it was all about leaves. So many leaves in fact. With everyone pitching in to bag leaves, we managed to bag over 150 bags in just under three hours. A big thank you to all who came out to help. We depend on the efforts of our neighbors to keep our park beautiful for all.
Please consider coming out to help us on the second Saturday of each month (March-December).
