4th Street Community Farm Work Day
Join the Food Policy Council & Groundwork Erie for a work day to prepare for spring planting at the 4th Street Farm! Food grown here will go back to the community at Emmaus Soup Kitchen and distributed to the Pay What You Can Network this summer. Bring a water bottle and a shovel and rake if you have one!
Benevolent Beers
Funds raised at Benevolent Beers will support Groundwork’s environmental workforce programming for young people. Benevolent Beers funds would directly support their Green Team and Ground Corps Programs. Green Teamers are 14-18 years old and will work 15-20 hours per week in the summer on community projects like the 4th Community Street Farm, Pay What You Can Stands, Community Forestry initiatives, litter pick-ups, water monitoring, and environmental and climate education. Their Ground Corps program will launch this year and will employ 18-24-year-olds in a green workforce development program. Ground Corps Members will receive on-the-job training with projects like tree planting, tree maintenance, and green infrastructure projects within the city of Erie and make a direct impact on Erie's environment through their work.
Every sale rung in between 5:00pm and 8:00pm will provide a donation to Groundwork Erie! Join us!
Groundwork Pay What You Can Farm Stand
Groundwork Community Farm Team is operating a Pay What You Can Stand at the 4th Street Community Farm to increase food access in the Lower East Side. Come “pay what you can” for locally grown fruits and vegetables. Funds from the farmstand go back into the stand to continue supporting our local food system and local farmers.
If you are interested in volunteering for the Groundwork Pay What You Can Stand (or any other stands within the PWYC network), let us know @ hello@groundworkerie.org!
Volunteers are needed to:
harvest fruits from local orchards
transport produce from local farms to the markets
sort produce for distribution
commit to a weekly position at a stand
Groundwork Pay What You Can Farm Stand
Groundwork Community Farm Team is operating a Pay What You Can Stand at the 4th Street Community Farm to increase food access in the Lower East Side. Come “pay what you can” for locally grown fruits and vegetables. Funds from the farmstand go back into the stand to continue supporting our local food system and local farmers.
If you are interested in volunteering for the Groundwork Pay What You Can Stand (or any other stands within the PWYC network), let us know @ hello@groundworkerie.org!
Volunteers are needed to:
harvest fruits from local orchards
transport produce from local farms to the markets
sort produce for distribution
commit to a weekly position at a stand
Groundwork Pay What You Can Farm Stand
Groundwork Community Farm Team is operating a Pay What You Can Stand at the 4th Street Community Farm to increase food access in the Lower East Side. Come “pay what you can” for locally grown fruits and vegetables. Funds from the farmstand go back into the stand to continue supporting our local food system and local farmers.
If you are interested in volunteering for the Groundwork Pay What You Can Stand (or any other stands within the PWYC network), let us know @ hello@groundworkerie.org!
Volunteers are needed to:
harvest fruits from local orchards
transport produce from local farms to the markets
sort produce for distribution
commit to a weekly position at a stand
Groundwork Pay What You Can Farm Stand
Groundwork Community Farm Team is operating a Pay What You Can Stand at the 4th Street Community Farm to increase food access in the Lower East Side. Come “pay what you can” for locally grown fruits and vegetables. Funds from the farmstand go back into the stand to continue supporting our local food system and local farmers.
If you are interested in volunteering for the Groundwork Pay What You Can Stand (or any other stands within the PWYC network), let us know @ hello@groundworkerie.org!
Volunteers are needed to:
harvest fruits from local orchards
transport produce from local farms to the markets
sort produce for distribution
commit to a weekly position at a stand
Groundwork Pay What You Can Farm Stand
Groundwork Community Farm Team is operating a Pay What You Can Stand at the 4th Street Community Farm to increase food access in the Lower East Side. Come “pay what you can” for locally grown fruits and vegetables. Funds from the farmstand go back into the stand to continue supporting our local food system and local farmers.
If you are interested in volunteering for the Groundwork Pay What You Can Stand (or any other stands within the PWYC network), let us know @ hello@groundworkerie.org!
Volunteers are needed to:
harvest fruits from local orchards
transport produce from local farms to the markets
sort produce for distribution
commit to a weekly position at a stand
Groundwork Pay What You Can Farm Stand
Groundwork Community Farm Team is operating a Pay What You Can Stand at the 4th Street Community Farm to increase food access in the Lower East Side. Come “pay what you can” for locally grown fruits and vegetables. Funds from the farmstand go back into the stand to continue supporting our local food system and local farmers.
If you are interested in volunteering for the Groundwork Pay What You Can Stand (or any other stands within the PWYC network), let us know @ hello@groundworkerie.org!
Volunteers are needed to:
harvest fruits from local orchards
transport produce from local farms to the markets
sort produce for distribution
commit to a weekly position at a stand
Groundwork Pay What You Can Farm Stand
Groundwork Community Farm Team is operating a Pay What You Can Stand at the 4th Street Community Farm to increase food access in the Lower East Side. Come “pay what you can” for locally grown fruits and vegetables. Funds from the farmstand go back into the stand to continue supporting our local food system and local farmers.
If you are interested in volunteering for the Groundwork Pay What You Can Stand (or any other stands within the PWYC network), let us know @ hello@groundworkerie.org!
Volunteers are needed to:
harvest fruits from local orchards
transport produce from local farms to the markets
sort produce for distribution
commit to a weekly position at a stand
February Book Club
Join us for a discussion of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake. We meet at Werner Books, 3608 Liberty Street, Erie, PA, 16508 (map)
November Book Club
Join us at Warner Books to discuss Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.
Erie Gives Day
Consider donating to our foundation on Erie Gives Day!
This year is the 14th annual Erie Gives, where the Erie Community Foundation helps donors open funds that benefit us nonprofits. The community has supported Erie Gives for the past thirteen years, and raised over $56.5M for local nonprofits.
Read more about us on other other pages, such as the ‘About Us’ tab, to read more about what your donation is going towards. Your donations help us to continue providing environmental literacy to young adults, conservation work, and more.
Groundwork Erie Environmental Book Club
May meeting: Wednesday, May 15, 2024
May’s book: James Rebanks, The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape (2016). This memoir takes readers through a single year in the life of James Rebanks, a shepherd in the Lake District of Northern England, “offering a unique account of rural life and a fundamental connection with the land that most of us have lost. It is a story of working lives, the people around him, his childhood, his parents and grandparents, a people who exist and endure even as the culture—of the Lake District, and of farming—changes around them.”
How to Join: We meet the 3rd Wednesday of the month at Werner Books at 6:00–7:00 p.m. Book Club members receive 20% off the club’s book of the month when buying the book at Werner.
Book Club
Sergio Aragonés, Groo: In the Wild (2024). This graphic novel follows a dim-witted barbarian and his dog as they attempt to understand how human beings co-exist with animals on this planet.
Community Meeting
A trail is being built within your community and Groundwork Erie needs community input on what the trail will look like in your neighborhood.
Mayor's News Conference: Greenway Trail
Pastor Darrell Cook, a Groundwork Erie Board memeber, presented at the Mayor’s News Conference on October 5th, 2023. He spoke about Groundwork Erie’s involvement over the summer in the community, and the Greenway Trail project moving forward.