Chestnut Grove Foundation

Chestnut Grove Foundation

The Chestnut Grove Foundation is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to preserving and protecting our local environment and heritage and to promoting non-partisan citizen participation in local government. CGF is registered with the Pennsylvania Bureau of Charitable Organizations.

The Chestnut Grove Foundation supports research & education programs related to the environment and sponsors public awareness activities. We also support environmental and heritage organizations in Manor Township and surrounding areas.

Conestoga Clean-up September 19, 2009

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Tree Tube Mainenance

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Our Programs

Seeds of Sustainability Contest

In its first year, the program awarded two prizes to Penn Manor property owners who demonstrated good stewardship of their land:

Winners 2008:

Now in its second year, the contest, offering cash awards to Penn Manor property owners for innovative environmental projects, is becoming well known in our community. The 2009 contest attracted more than twice the applications of the first year and we will be announcing the winners by the end of November.

Chestnut planting

We provided funding and labor to help The American Chestnut Foundation (http://www.patacf.org/) plant carefully bred, disease resistant American chestnuts as part of a program to restore blight-resistant Chestnut groves in the River Hills. This year the chestnut seeds were planted on April 18 and 19 at the Lancaster County Conservancy's House Rock Chestnut orchard.

Conestoga River Clean-up

For the third year, we sponsored a Boy Scout Eagle project to clean up the Conestoga River. This year Henry Stewart led the project, cleaning up the Conestoga from East King street to the Knights of Columbus.

Educational programs

Some of the other projects that Chestnut Grove Foundation has been supporting include