Programs & Events
2025 Programs
Wyck’s Grounds are open Tuesday – Saturday, 10am-4pm
April – November: Walk-in Tours are available Thursday-Saturday 12pm-4pm**
April – October: Home Farm Club meets Tuesdays 5-7pm and Fridays 10:00am-Noon
February
15 – Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop led by the Philly Orchard Project*
March
20 – Annual Women’s History Month Lecture: Gender, Labor, and Materiality at Eastern State Penitentiary with Em Dombrovskaya, Suzanne Andrée Curatorial Fellow in Prints and Drawings, Philadelphia Museum of Art*
21- PA Flax Project Spring 2025 Flax Planting Day, 10 am (Meet near the Germantown Avenue gate)
April
3- House Tours Begin!
8- First Home Farm Club Session of 2025!
12 – Second Saturday Workshop: Printmaking with Katie Garth, Print Artist and Educator*
May
Extended Garden Days During Rose Season, Garden is Open Until 7:00 PM on May 13, 14, 15 and May 20, 21, 22.
3 – Historic Marker Installation and Rose Season Kickoff, 1 PM
3- Garden Lecture: “Timeless Beauty: Uncovering the Hidden History of Wyck’s Garden” with Nicole Juday (EVENT POSTPONED: Updates Coming Soon)
10 – Second Saturday Workshop: Intro to Natural Dyes with Audra Wolfe, Historian and President, Philadelphia Guild of Handweavers*
10 – GREAT Food and Seeds CommUNITY Expo, 11-3
24 – ANNUAL FESTIVAL: The Celebration of the Roses, 11-3
29- Rose and Roses, 5:30-7:30*
June
12- Young Friends of Wyck Present: Vinyl Listening Party with Sook Vinyl, 5:30 PM
14 – Second Saturday Workshop with Richie Metzger-Lopez of Duende Textiles*
20- Young Friends of Wyck Present: Jazz Around the World with Lantern Theater, 5:00 PM
25 – Wawa Welcome America Day Free Tours, 12 – 4 PM
21- Historic Germantown Spring Stamp Rally Ends
July
4 – Wyck Closed for the July 4th Holiday
7, 14, 21, 28 – Carillon Concerts on the Lawn, presented by the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, 7:30pm
7 – Evening Garden Tour, 6:30pm; Animal Adoption Spotlight with Familiar Hearts Animal Society, 6:30 PM
12 – Second Saturday Workshop: Lafayette in Germantown Walking Tour in partnership with Cliveden, 10:30 (Register Here)*
20 – Marquis de Lafayette 200th Anniversary Community Celebration, noon-4pm
21 – Evening Lafayette Tour & Animal Adoption Spotlight with Familiar Hearts Animal Society, 6:30 PM
23 – “Lunching with Lafayette:” A Free Virtual Lecture with Dr. Robert Crout, 12 PM* (Register Here)
August
9 – Second Saturday Workshop: Farm to Table with Chef and Educator Valerie Erwin, 11-12:30* (Register Here)
23 – Jabali Jungle
September
6 – Philadelphia Honey Festival
13 – Second Saturday Workshop: Fruit Apothecary Recipes with Chef and Educator April McGreger, 11-12:30* (Registration Coming Soon)
20- “Houses of the Revolution” Tour, via the American Philosophical Society, 10:30* (Register Here)
October
11 – Second Saturday Workshop: Historic Chocolate Making with Ebo Nunoo of Xoxoa Chocolates, 11-12:30*
November
15- Final day of drop-in house tours in 2025
*Free program, registration required. Registration for each event opens two weeks prior to the event date