Save The Meadows - Philadelphia

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An autonomous, decentralized campaign to save the wild acres known as the "FDR Meadows" from privatization and development. Join us at savethemeadows.com (Posts dated 1/22/25 and earlier were imported from x.com/savefdrmeadows)

Photo: The former guardhouse in FDR Park, a pale beige 2-story brick building with reddish roof, with blue sign in foreground that reads "Welcome Center."
Photo: The FDR Park Welcome Center, with blue sign in foreground: "Welcome Center"
Cover of Grid magazine, April 2026, Issue 203. Main title "the FIGHT for FDR" over a collage of photos of FDR Park.
Photo of pond edge in the FDR Meadows, in winter, showing trees, water and sky.
Protest signs ("Let the people speak," "No land grab" etc) hang on a construction fence at the FDR Meadows in Philadelphia in May 2024.
Photo of barren cleared area of FDR Park, with earthmoving equipment. Overlay lettering: IT'S NOW OR NEVER / STOP THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FDR MEADOWS
Side-by-side maps: from City application showing border meadows vs Conservancy plan showing turf fields
Poster text: This Monday MON JAN 5 10:00 AM Orphans Court, City Hall room 425 Attend the hearing. Show the court that protecting the FDR Meadows matters to you — Hearing likely to last just 1-2 hours. Share
Screen shot of slide from Instagram post at https://www.instagram.com/p/DK3GBBxPrWR/
Photo of the Picnic Grove in the FDR Park Meadows, before the Fairmount Park Conservancy flattened it for toxic artificial turf fields.
Photo from the linked Philadelphia Citizen article, of two people walking under tree cover, captioned "A small part of FDR Park's "meadows," before it lost dozens of heritage trees."
Philadelphia residents with signs at Council's March 5, 2024 Tree Bill hearing: "Close the loophole / Protect trees on public land" and "Mature Trees = homes to thousands / Protect FDR Park"
Map from page 19 of the Philly Tree Plan, showing that South Philly is mostly high priority for more tree cover. Added text indicates FDR Park and says "South Philly has just 5% tree canopy!"
Photo: People measuring a tree using a measuring tape. Text: Experience THE SECRET MATH OF TREES / The Meadows, FDR / Tickets: $5 / Sat, Feb 8th / Time: 1:00–4:00PM / All ages welcome.