If it is to be, it is up too we.... take back our destiny

We need your help to improve and preserve a run down multi-purpose ball field located in the Cradle of Astoria, Queens, NY. "Let's win one for Whitey Ford Field!"

Community-supported wellness education at PS 17 in Astoria (Queens) -- joining forces with local partners to bring culinary and garden education to the school!

Your donations will help to provide stipends for our 7 full-time summer participants and extend the program into the fall to an additional 15 youth.

Allergic to Salad has a base of educators and schools sites. Thru funding of this campaign we will fully donate Culinary Kits to partner sites in the HNC, while offering donated kits + affordable classes to new partners!

Help us buy new clay to install as the playing surface to complete our renovation of the bocce court in Astoria Park. After hundreds of volunteer man-hours last fall, we are ready to finish the job and re-introduce bocce!

Delivering Justice is a participatory action research and documentary film project with NYC food delivery cyclists to reimagine more just and equitable streets, policing, and working conditions.

Helathy, hands-on, activity-filled cooking lessons explore local, seasonal, vegetarian, nut-free and often soy- and lactose-free international cuisine with children!

Shore Fest is a car-free celebration on Shore Boulevard sponsored by The Astoria Park Alliance. Shore Fest re-imagines public space and celebrates cultural diversity through free music, performance, and fun.

We'll partner with a local restaurant for awesome chef-led classes.
Together we'll explore a healthy recipe, develop kitchen skills and cook!

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.

Composting in western Queens will bring more materials, workshops, and infrastructure for composting to Astoria, Long Island City, Jackson Heights, Sunnyside, and Woodside.

Reimagining public urban space for people.

More healthy cooking classes! We're looking to fund FOUR children and ONE adult classes right now (5 total)! There is already a list of over 200 kiddies (and growing) eager to get cooking-- let's make it happen!

The goal is for the lesson to be brought to the home! Getting children involved in the cooking process, increasing awareness of healthy, nourishing food, and getting the whole family to cook together and eat together.

The WQCI is a dynamic partnership of CSA's, gardeners, and youth & civic associations, providing leadership, service, and education in composting!

Nutrition Detectives helps kids measure and compare healthy food items.

This program teaches adults how to make their own non-toxic cleaning supplies.

Let's Talk Trash, Beyond the Can, is the beginning of a beautiful movement, trash cans that will live permanently in Astoria Park.

Our compost project teaches the benefits of composting, provides bins and worms, and instructions on and how to start and keep a bin.

The Astoria Park Alliance is programming a car-free Shore Blvd on August 1, 8, and 15. Help us open the streets to people to make programs free for all ages!

This program to teach the basics and benefits of canning.

Composting the Five Borough Bike Tour will reduce waste being trucked out, and create compost for five school gardens.

The creation of a small biodigester/reactor to understand and measure the benefits of CH4 gas derived from a green source for wide-scale public use.

The Astoria Park Alliance is programming a car-free Shore Blvd on August 7, 14 & 21. Help us open the streets with free programming and events for all ages.

The Junior Composter course is an internship for youth from underserved communities to engage in composting, urban agriculture, and environmental activism.

Our cooking demonstration features advice on what to do with CSA vegetables and how to prepare recipes from local chefs.