Groundwork Erie is partnering with the City of Erie and the Redevelopment Authority to reimagine a network of vacant lots throughout the Lower Eastside of Erie. Our Green Team maintains and beautifies these spaces in the summer. We also talk with neighbors about what they would like to see throughout the Greenway and advocate for the community’s voices to be central to the project.

Groundwork Erie’s Green Team partners with the Erie Farm to School project in the summer to assist with maintaining the school gardens that this program has developed at every public school in the City of Erie. Green Teamers learn about plants and gardening and helped to distribute fresh produce.

Groundwork Erie partners with many existing neighborhood organizations to help maintain, beautify and clean-up vacant lots throughout the city. Our Green Team picks up litter, installs landscaping, cleans up alleyways, removes invasive species, plants trees, and works in neighborhood community gardens.

In 2025, Groundwork Erie’s Green Team will partner with many local urban farmers to help grow, distribute, and glean produce for the Pay-What-You-Can Farmstands. Green Team will grow at the new 4th Street Community Farm site at East 4th and German Streets.

In 2025, Groundwork Erie will be launching its Community Forestry Corps with the inaugural year of Ground Corps, a workforce development initiative designed for young adults ages 18-24 to build skills in forestry, arboriculture, and other cooling and stormwater infrastructure.