We’ll do an initial cleanup of the Walking on Logs sculpture area coming up the hill from the WS Bridge.

This will be a coordinated cleanup effort with the West Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Devonshire Landscapes in a first pass on creating a cleaner, more open area around the soon-to-be updated sculptures and meadow area.

We’ll be heading back to Junction Plaza Park with an army this week to clear garden beds for wood chips and future plantings. Keller Williams Seattle will be joining us for a service day so we’ll combine forces to knock this one out of the park and set it up nicely for the Summer.

We’ll head back to help Mary at the Diagonal Ave Park and Shoreline Habitat which is south of the West Seattle Bridge by a mile or so. It’s a cool park with a cove for litter pickup and a little pocket park that we can Spruce and tidy up. Last visit we hit the brambles at the river’s edge and spread mulch along the cove.

ACA donated some cleanup and gardening gear to the Summit Atlas Garden Club earlier in the year and I talked to teacher Ayla about coming in and helping open up the garden area which has an overgrown fence line (and a fence that’s falling over) which gets in the way of their activities.

Stu, from Alki Bike & Board reached out about cleaning up Marginal Place and the bike path as part of Bike Everywhere Month. Thankfully, Marginal Place is now on a weekly abatement route by Seattle Public Utilities, so the big problems that have plagued it for years has been helped out immensely. That said, there’s still a lot of wire stripping activities that could use help and we’ll give the bike path some love too.

We’ll head back to Duwamish Head Greenspace with Heather on Friday and continue pulling ivy and connecting areas that we’ve cleared before. This is Jessie’s last regular Friday with us for a while as their work schedule is shifting, so we’ll close it out with a fun work party and some Top Pot donuts (special request)!

We’ve accomplished a lot in the past two weeks, pulling out over a ton of material from the greenspace after the recent encampment sweeps behind the golf course. We scouted and found an abandoned camp that was missed, up by the fence line along 35th. This will be a bit trickier to remove, but I believe we can get it done this week with a strong effort.

I came across an overgrown traffic circle when we were scouting for the recent DocuSign cleanup, and thought it would make a great day event, paired up with Mary at SDOT.

Join us on Saturday, May 2 in the Mt. Baker neighborhood for Seattle’s Neighbor Day celebration, we’ll meet at the Mt. Baker Light Rail Station and send teams out in all directions to remove litter, spruce up our streets and build community together.

Heather has been super pleased with the work being done at her Schmitz Park forest steward parcel, so we’ll meet at her entrance into Schmitz Park off Spokane St., and continue removing English ivy, Holly, blackberry and other invasives. We’ve made great progress over the past several years with many large-scale ivy pulling events. We’ll work on connecting past areas cleared.

We started cleaning the debris field between the West Seattle Golf Course and Camp Long after the city’s encampment sweep several weeks ago, but there is still much more there to do. We’ll walk in again from the WS Stadium / WS Golf Course end of the greenspace and walk in to the higher wooded area and work back towards where we were last week to best inventory what remains.

We’ve pretty much knocked everything out down where 99 meets East Marginal. What remains is the cut material from week’s past, and some blackberry and butterfly bush rootballs to pull. We’ll help thin down the piles of cut material and load the trucks to haul it away, and folks wanting to do any of the digging and trash picking duties can focus on that. This has been one of the most satisfying and successful large scale cleanups to date, thanks for all who’ve helped out!

Join us for the 2026 All Hands Neighborhood Cleanup Series! We’re sprucing up 7 Seattle neighborhoods with 10 community cleanups from March to November—focusing on removing litter and beautifying our streets.

I’ll be out of town this Friday, but Heather will be in her Schmitz Park parcel off Spokane St., continuing to remove English ivy and other invasives. We’ve made great progress over the past several years with many large-scale ivy pulling events. Please join her if you want to get out into the park.

We scouted the debris field between the West Seattle Golf Course and Camp Long after the city’s sweep last week and there is still much more there to do there. Dozens of one-off camp sites, as well as large areas of scorched earth where trash has been ground into the mud remain.

The past month we’ve removed butterfly bush and blackberry along East Marginal as it creates line-of-sight issues for vehicles, cyclists, and pedestrians, and has trapped a ton of garbage form years of neglect. This week we’ll be working again around the area where Highway 99 comes down to street level along the side of the 99 ramp.

Group member Melissa reached out about doing a collaborative cleanup in Georgetown with folks from her work at Docusign. We’ll have an afternoon cleanup and spread out in all directions after meeting up at All Star Coffee in the heart of Georgetown. There should be plenty of work to do.

This will be our third year helping local Girl Scout troops Spruce Camp Long. We’ll send scouts out to do trash pickup and have older girls helping to pull ivy and blackberry—queueing piles for the groundskeeper. All ACA members are welcome to come help lead groups of girls, or work with them to Spruce the park. Come out and give this beautiful jewel in West Seattle some love!

We'll join the Seattle-Nantes Sister City Association on Sprucing up Nantes Park on Saturday from 10am-noon. We'll be working on weeding and spreading wood chips in this little pocket park right along Admiral Way which celebrates our sister city of Nantes, France.

We'll drop back in at the south end of the Alki Trail and continue opening up the fence line—creating a brighter, safer and more welcoming expanse along the bike path. There will be trash collection and Sprucing opportunities as we continue to address blackberry, ivy and weed overgrowth.

We’ll return again to Marshall Reserve this week, the little pocket park just across the street from the Love Lock fence line view of downtown. We’ve been helping Parks and Rec removed invasives and open the vibe of the park up. Prior to our first visit it was pretty dark and gloomy with a huge blackberry bramble along the back of the park with lots of ivy eating up real estate.

The past month we’ve removed butterfly bush and blackberry along East Marginal as it creates line-of-sight issues for vehicles, cyclists, and pedestrians, and has trapped a ton of garbage form years of neglect. This week we’ll be working again around the area where Highway 99 comes down to street level along the side of the 99 ramp.

We’ll be helping the group Schmitz Park Creek Restore pull ivy, blackberry and other invasives in the park so that native plants and animals can continue to flourish. This is an ongoing, impactful effort to help the group restore the park and creek.

We’ll head back to Duwamish Head Greenspace with Heather on Friday and continue pulling ivy and connecting areas that we’ve cleared before. The large blackberry and knotweed area on the south end of the greenspace has been mowed down, so it is very open now.

This will be our 4th group visit to Marshall Reserve in 2026, a little pocket park just across the street from the Love Lock fence line view of downtown. We’ve been helping Parks and Rec removed invasives and open the vibe of the park up. Prior to our first visit it was pretty dark and gloomy with a huge blackberry bramble along the back of the park with lots of ivy eating up real estate.

The past month we’ve removed butterfly bush and blackberry along East Marginal as it creates line-of-sight issues for vehicles, cyclists, and pedestrians, and has trapped a ton of garbage form years of neglect. This week we’ll be working right around the area where Highway 99 comes down to street level along the side of the 99 ramp.

Heather has been super pleased with the work being done at the Schmitz Park forest steward parcel, so we’ll meet at her entrance into Schmitz Park off Spokane St., and continue removing English ivy, Holly, blackberry and other invasives.

We got a ton of work done last week at Luna (aka Anchor) Park. This coming week we’ll get the rest of the turf dug up on the city side of the park and spread wood chips in preparation for the city and Robyn to select some new natives to go in. There will also be some nitty gritty stuff, like scraping weeds out of the stone path.

The past month we’ve removed butterfly bush and blackberry along East Marginal as it creates line-of-sight issues for vehicles, cyclists, and pedestrians, and has trapped a ton of garbage form years of neglect. This week we’ll be working right around the area where Highway 99 comes down to street level along the side of the 99 ramp.

Join us on Saturday, March 28 in White Center, we’ll meet at Fresh Flours and send teams out in all directions to remove litter, spruce up our streets and build community together. The series will then continue with cleanup events in the Othello, Mount Baker, Hillman City, Central District, Little Saigon and Lake City neighborhoods.