Upcoming Trips...

**This trip is for members only**

• We will meet at Jordan Lutheran Church at 10:00am and carpool to the Farm.

• We are confirmed to be at Peace Tree Farms at 11:00am.
• We will allow 2 hours for the gathering and the tour

• Depart Peace Tree at 1:00pm

• Lunch stop TBD on way home. (members responsible for cost of their own lunch)
• Please email Chris Gallina (bermuda2@ptd.net) by January 13th if you are attending

No cost for actual tour

Peace Tree Farm is a family-operated, USDA Certified Organic wholesale greenhouse company located in the countryside of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Owners, Lloyd and Candy Traven, work with growers and retailers across the country and provide business customers with plants that grow. The Farm production is wholesale to the trade only. Locally, they provide all the Wegman’s stores with live containers of fresh herbs.

The Travens want their business partners and the ultimate public consumer to be as enriched by the gardening and plant-keeping experience as they are every day. Explore Peace Tree’s website to discover more about their trademark specialty lavender and hearty figs, their certified organic herbs & vegetables, and their curated ornamental collection.

On this tour, guests will also learn how their biocontrol program is an industry-leading example of sustainable agriculture. The Travens are also starting to grow Spring trial sample plants of new introductions for some of the industry’s largest plant breeders and propagators. Lastly, they are one of the few remaining growers in the greater Philadelphia market who takes on the lost art of plant forcing for flowers to grace the Philadelphia Flower Show commercial exhibits. All of these topics will be covered in this incomparable tour at the height of their early production season.

PGC Bus/Field Trip Committee Chair Christine Gallina has arranged a trip to the Philadelphia Flower Show on March 6th. For 2025, the PHS Philadelphia Flower Show exhibits will showcase imaginative designs and provide boundless inspiration. The theme, "Gardens of Tomorrow", promises new and creative gardening ideas for the future. This trip is open to members, friends and any  garden lovers in our community. Don't miss this wonderful experience! Details below.