Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy Blog

HI, HELLO, AND WELCOME TO THIS WEEK’S POST ON LIVE STAKES! I am sure you are wondering, “What in the world are live stakes?”, but no worries, I’ll answer that…

This past Sunday, I had the pleasure of joining Melissa Sokulski, author of the wonderful blog “Food Under Foot” on the Wild Edibles Hike at Frick Park. Thanks to this…

Nature in Your Neighborhood Every Spring, I get the strong urge to return to my hunter-gatherer roots. I dream of walking through the forest, with a basket at my side,…

A picnic in the parks is the perfect summer outing. Here are my tips for having the best outdoor eating experience you can at Frick Park.   To begin planning…

The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy’s Horticulture and Forestry team is dedicated to creating a more resilient tree canopy. As part of this work, several years ago, the Parks Conservancy partnered with the City of Pittsburgh and the Penn State Cooperative Extension to plant Elm cultivars to understand elm breeding.

DID YOU KNOW? The first daffodils to bloom in our area is the cultivar ‘Tete-a-Tete,’ which is a sweet miniature daffodil! Daffodils are a spring flower that deer and critters don’t eat, unlike tulips,…

The Eastern garter snake (our regional subspecies of the common garter snake);  The common or Northern watersnake;  Dekay’s brown snake;  The Eastern milksnake. 

Cars whoosh rhythmically by as you walk along a sidewalk bordering a city park. When a park path meets the sidewalk, you veer off, dipping into the immediate relief of greenery. You might feel yourself breathing more deeply as you walk along under a canopy of trees.