Kimberton Waldorf School

Kimberton Waldorf School

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Briar Rose: A Children's Forest

We're planting a forest and our hope is that the community will come together to make this a reality. There are many ways you can help. For more information, please call Chinyelu Kunz of Rosebud Children's Garden at 610-935-4971 or email .

The importance of forests and trees to our well-being is enormous. Trees protect, they shade, they provide, and they comfort. Trees convey a sense of pleasure; they are also beautiful and restful to look at.  

 The mission of Briar Rose Forest is to provide a natural forest setting as an environment that will support creative, self-initiated play of the young child. To provide a direct experience of nature and the seasons so that a healthy relationship with nature can develop. To make possible the daily experience of the beauty, wonder and awe of the forest. To learn to care for nature by becoming stewards of Briar Rose Forest by developing a healthy, loving relationship with the forest as a natural environment to be cared for and explored.
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Ways You Can Help:
1. Help plant trees (date TBD)
2. Contact local garden centers and ask them to donate trees from the Tree Wish List.
3. Donate trees from the Tree Wish List.

Thank you for your support! All tree donations are tax-deductible.
*Donations to Briar Rose do not count for the Community Spirit Fund.

Tree Wish List
We wish for trees that are of substantial height and breadth. (10 to 20 feet in height) We are looking to plant trees that are common to Pennsylvania.

Norway Maple                                   
Northern Red Oak
Red Maple                                         
Slippery Elm
Sugar Maple                                       
American Elm
White Ash                                          
Yellow Birch
Flowering Dogwood                          
Sweet Birch
Black Walnut                                     
Paper Birch
Bitternut Hickory                               
American Beech
White Oak                                          
Common Sassafras
Eastern Hemlock                                
Eastern Red Cedar
Red Pine                                            
Eastern White Pine
American Larch                                 
Norway Spruce
Black Willow                                  
Scarlet Oak
American Linden                               
Buckeyes
Cucumbertree Magnolia                     
Silver Maple