The project facilitates faith communities sharing models to produce and access healthy, local food. The project advances policy activism by congregations to strengthen sustainable agriculture movement.
For the first time this fall, the camp will provide healthy, seasonal, organic apples to 2,274 school children, raise awareness about where food comes from, and establish new relationships with local farmers.
With the hard work of dozens of interns, volunteers and project leaders, 25 years of Time's Up! advocacy work is being archived.
GardenWalk Cleveland is a free tour of private gardens, community gardens and urban farms in the City of Cleveland over a weekend in the summer.
Brownsville Student Farm is an oasis of plant and animal life in the middle of Brooklyn. We focus on youth education, providing a green community space and raising awareness about health and nutrition.
Help us sustain a Youth Internship Program for low-income teenagers to teach workshops on environmental and health-related topics to peers and neighbors at an urban farm in a struggling neighborhood of Washington, DC.
Outstanding volunteers are honored each year in November for their great work during the year.
We will be distributing Free 911 Daffodil Project bulbs to groups in Queens. We plan on giving hand tools to groups to help them with the planting. In 2011, over 25,000 bulbs were given to groups to plant in Queens.
Classroom activity to teach Detroit students how to reduce, reuse and recycle through science, engineering, art and creativity.
A fun day to learn and network with other like-minded people! We will have exhibits and info at tables, show educational movies, and give workshops. Giveways to help improve the environment will also be available.
Art/learning kits using recycled materials from Detroit given to 1,000 students at neighborhood school. Volunteers take pictures; create show at our Recycled Art Gallery. Students/parents are special guests.
Free, healthy, seasonal, hands-on cooking for kids! Taught by real chefs partnered with educators.
We'll be rolling up sushi when this class is funded! Healthy, hands-on cooking lessons explore seasonal, nut-free international cuisine with kids. Real food makes no excuses!
We'll be cooking up some Thai food when this class is funded! Healthy, hands-on cooking lessons explore seasonal, nut-free international cuisine with kids. Real food makes no excuses!
Free, healthy, seasonal, hands-on cooking for kids! Taught by real chefs partnered with educators.
The two main parts of our project are clean-up and beautification. We have student volunteers and would like additional volunteers to paint, clean-up leaves, and beautify our adopted flower beds.
We are currently seeking funds to put up a community notice board and to construct a gate in the back connecting us to an established community garden on the opposite block.
We are partnering with KaBOOM! to build a playground in Tampa Heights!
A youth-leadership and food-justice summer program that creates opportunities for youth ages 14-30 to work in school and community gardens, community outreach and organizing, and educational and cultural programming.
The Powell Elementary GT Magnet garden and outdoor classroom is a stimulating space for play, interactive learning and environmental education.
One Kin farm will be the transformation of an abandoned lot to an urban farm with 20 raised beds that will produce a variety of vegetables, herbs and flowers.
We are celebrating the neighborhood’s multiculturalism by depicting Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Sleepless City” poem in a 4-part mural series.
A day of cleaning and greening Flatbush Ave on May 12, 2012!
The Park Garden is a new green space on Indianapolis’ north side. It will be a permaculture garden and will provide a more naturalized and informal setting.
Our project works to save wild salmon by creating a collaborative forum that puts salmon restoration in the hands of scientists and those impacted by their survival, not just politicians.
Women, Minorities, and Delivery Guys are Cyclists too!
On Saturday, May 12, 2012, the Brooklyn Food Coalition, will share ideas and work together for the kind of food system change we need now. PLEASE DONATE TODAY!!
Help us support and grow membership at Long Island City Roots!
To make an educational video to inspire and engage the NYC Public Schools on sustainability issues.
Creating a Community on and off the Road!
Help establish the first community garden at a high needs middle school in Brooklyn.
Learning through growing: Help us build a vegetable and flower garden for Queens Collegiate students.
Amplifying practical solutions, the Less = More Green Map of NYC highlights local waste reduction sites and strategies with handy neighborhood and citywide interactive maps.
A seed library promotes the saving and sharing of locally-sourced seeds. It fosters community in that members give back in order for the library to grow and everyone to benefit.
"Jamaica Bay Lives" is the first-ever, feature-length documentary film about Jamaica Bay.
The St George Day Festival encourages environmental stewardship through storytelling, spectacle and innovative educational & community building activities.
For The Newtown Creek Armada, a model boat pond will be created on one of America's most polluted waterways.
Our Gowanus Mud Ball project will gather the community to make mud balls and educate on beneficial microbes! Then a massive throw of 10,000 balls into a section of the Gowanus!
Reimagining public urban space for people.
Turning vacant lots in Pittsburgh into hands-on opportunities for organic farming.
We will be filming successful volunteer projects in Queens in our parks, green spaces, tree pits and other public areas in order to inspire others to do the same.
Feedback Farms is building out a 2nd location that will effectively double our square footage!
Volunteers from the Cornucopia Society and the Queens Coalition for Parks and Green Spaces will clean the area up and plant annuals to spruce up and colorize the area.
Bringing attention to 39 tree pits on the block on May 19th by planting flowers, cleaning up litter, and building tree guards.
WHEDco, a non-profit in the Bronx, will construct a greenhouse to support its farming program aimed at creating opportunities for residents to learn about sustainability.
Help us create easily understood signs and brochures for our compost project and native plant garden for our diverse, multi-lingual neighbors!
Volunteers will clean out the area and remove all types of debris so when the the fountains are activated, it will be a clean and pleasing site without garbage floating around.
Support a compost garden in the Rockaways.
A Recyclers' farm in the midst of the city is not only possible but attainable!!! . . Sure! we can!
