- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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59 people are interested
Urban Farm/Park Clean-up Volunteers
ORGANIZATION: Washington Parks & People
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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59 people are interested
Interested in volunteering at a community greening center or in a park? We have opportunities at our one-acre urban farm, the Marvin Gaye Greening Center (5000 Nannie Helen Burroughs Ave NE). We grow fresh organic produce for the Ward 7 and 8 communities. Volunteers will help with weeding, harvesting, planting, and tending to the farm. No experience is necessary. Volunteers may also head into Marvin Gaye Park and help out with things such as tree planting, invasive species removal, trash clean up, stream clean up, and general park beautification.
We love hosting groups! Because of our open-air, widespread plot of land and proper distancing and mask-wearing policies, we can safely host groups of up to 20 people in the garden and/or park.
WPP will provide:
- COVID-19 safety rules/guidelines
- Socially distanced in-the-field training
- Sterilized tools per person and proper sterilization techniques
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About Washington Parks & People
Location:
2437 15th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009, US
Mission Statement
To grow city-wide park-based community health, equity, and justice through innnovation and partnerships across DC.
Description
Parks & People is DC's award-winning city-wide community parks partnership. Founded in 1990 to reclaim Meridian Hill/ Malcolm X Park, the organization led the transformation of that park from the most crime-ridden national park in the area to one of the safest. Parks & People has now helped advance over 250 parks, trails, streams, playgrounds, schoolyards, and community gardens and farms. Our facilities include the Josephine Butler Parks Center, an award-winning 40-room "greenhouse" for revitalizing DC greenspaces; the historic Riverside Healthy Living Center, providing park programming, youth development, and healthy park-based business incubation; the Marvin Gaye Community Greening Center, a year-round community farm, native reforestation hub, and base of park reclamation and job training through our DC Green Corps; the Piney Spring Green; and the North Columbia Heights Green, a once-blighted vacant lot that serves as a hands-on outdoor classroom for year-round healthy food production. Parks & People has led the community reclamation and transformation of Marvin Gaye Park, DC's longest municipal park, for 23 years. It also helps the Escarpment Ridge and Fort Circle network of parks, Walter Pierce Park (where 8,428 African Americans were buried after the Civil War), the east side of Rock Creek park, and numerous schoolyards. Since its founding a generation ago, Parks & People has mobilized over 300,000 volunteers for parks and green spaces of all kinds. Parks & People volunteers work hard, have fun, and make a massive difference.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Marvin Gaye Greening Center5000 Nannie Helen Burroughs Ave NEWashington, DC 20019
DATE POSTED
December 2, 2020
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- up to 4 hours a week