Weatherwood Farm Visit: Revitalizing a Piece of Bucks County’s Ecological Heritage with David Hughes

Name: Weatherwood Farm Visit: Revitalizing a Piece of Bucks County’s Ecological Heritage with David Hughes
Start: 2025-10-10T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-10T12:30:00-04:00
Location: 1635 River Rd , New Hope, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 18938

Schedule

Fri Oct 10 2025 at 10:00 am to 12:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1635 River Rd , New Hope, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 18938 | New Hope, PA

Purchased in 2014, David Hughes’ woodland area, once overbrowsed by deer and overrun by invasive plants, is now a thriving forest-floor community of native plants. The monoculture of lawns has been replaced with warm-season grass meadows, native wildflowers and forest communities. Vernal pools and rain gardens have been created to add a thriving wetland community. Join the Preserve for a private tour of this inspirational property and listen to Hughes give inspired information on healing our degraded landscape, reflecting on rich communities of native plants and the creatures that call it home. As the growing season draws to a close, we will focus on preparing native gardens for winter, preserving habitat for wildlife and native plants throughout the year and ecologically sensitive garden maintenance and invasive plant removal techniques.
David Hughes is a registered landscape architect and owner of Weatherwood Design LLC that specializes in native plant-based garden design, ecology and indigenous habitat conservation. He has worked in the green industry for 35 years designing landscapes that focus on bringing back ecological functions to the site and its surrounding community. Hughes’ designs improve the pathways in which ecological services are revived or restored to a site.
Find out more on his website: https://weatherwooddesign.com/