Five New Projects from Brooklyn, Manhattan & Queens need your help!

Added Value, the Red Hook farming group whose name has become nearly synonymous with "sweat equity" has increased their productive land to include a 3-acre stretch on Governor's Island. They need to purchase a rototiller to cultivate its farm there, which will bring increased production, youth employment and educational activities. Help them out.

PS 11's student-run Farm Market sells local, organic produce from a New York State Farm CSA to the neighborhood surrounding the school. They need your help to buy a tent.

The Hester Street Collaborative has another great project coming up. This one, on Saturday, October 24, as part of It's My Park! Day, is an interactive day of park cleanup, public art & stewardship to bring local residents together around the renovation of the Allen & Pike Street Malls. They only need $144, but they need it soon. Help them out.

They aren't the only ones working on It's My Park! Day. For a complete list of It's My Park! Day events check ioby.org/IMPD. Also, for those Brooklyn volunteers working on Saturday as stewards of their parks, be sure to stop by Brouwerij Lane from 6-9pm in Greenpoint, on the corner of Greenpoint Ave and Franklin Ave, for a celebratory drink. Kombucha Brooklyn will be giving away Kombucha to It's My Park! Day volunteers who yell "Drink the Revolution!" and a portion of their sales that night will benefit a Brooklyn ioby project of their choice.

Also on It's My Park! Day, from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.,North Brooklyn Compost Project celebrates another successful compost season with an end-of-season FUNraiser. Swing by the pile to bid on their silent auction items and participate in bulb planting and street tree stewardship/stormwater management activities around the triangle. Check out their new project for winter and give them a hand.

Millions Trees NYC and NYC Parks Department are helping volunteers plant trees on Saturday, from 9:30am-3:00pm. (Volunteers should be 12 and over, please. Under 18 needs a guardian.) Ponchos, lunch and water will be provided. Volunteers should bring sunscreen. We will demonstrate how to plant trees and assist volunteers in planting them at Healy Ave & Bay 32nd Pl, Queens, New York 11691 Take The A Train To Beach-25th Street (Next To Last Stop). Here's a map.

Don't forget that for volunteer opportunities this weekend check ioby.org/IMPD.

All my best,
Erin