We’ll host a group of West Seattle High School students from the Interact Club (Rotary) in Duwamish Head Greenspace on Sunday and continue pulling ivy and connecting areas that we’ve cleared before. We’ll meet along Admiral Way where we typically enter the woods, about 1/3 of the way down the hill. I’ll set up an A-frame sign along the sidewalk where we’ll meet.

My neighbors and I will be doing a cleanup in the College St, Ravine on National Trails Day. This is a lovely little greenspace between neighborhoods that could use some invasive species removal and wood chip spreading along the trail. I figured if we could get some ACA regulars we could get into some of the heavier lifts of blackberry and ivy removal.

A group member tagged ACA in a request for help from the community for an elderly neighbor who had some broken branches up in his backyard cedar tree. I scouted it and figured its something we could help remedy. We’ll need to drop several that are still up in the tree and then cut them down to manageable pieces. With enough hands we can also put some time on other invasives in the overgrown yard, and then haul out the cut material.

We’ll head to Duwamish Waterway Park this week at request of Seattle Parks & Rec, for part of our Spruced series in Equity Priority neighborhoods. The actual park is adjacent to Port and SDOT properties along the Duwamish that we’ll help clear invasives and trash from, to create a more open and airy environment.

We’ll head several blocks east on S. Graham St. this week to work on a triangle median at S. Graham and Rainier Ave. S., which houses a local bus stop. We’ll give this stretch a nice reset for the neighborhood removing invasives from the triangle and making way for some mulch—there’ll be lots of trash picking opportunities around the neighborhood as well.

I was in the midst of planning a collaborative event with Amazon for this coming Tuesday, but it fell through right after I connecting with forest stewards Jenny and Greg who take care of sections of Woodland Park. The park recently mowed down a patch of blackberries that they’re working on removing, so I told them we could pitch in on that.

Join us on Saturday, May 30 in the Hillman City neighborhood, we’ll meet at Onda Origins Cafe & Roastery and send teams out in all directions to remove litter, spruce up our streets and build community together.

Join us for a special after school Sprucing event at Lafayette Elementary to help close the school year out, with Lafayette’s PTA. Interested kids will stay after school, joined by their families—and all community members are welcomed to come out and give this neighborhood gem some love as well.

We’ll visit Little Saigon this week to help ready the community’s Spring Cleaning the following day. The organizers have asked for help priming the planter boxes along Weller St. and tidying their contents for a bright, fresh paint job during their work party. We’ll also get some banh mi sandwiches for lunch after the work party.

We’ll head back to Cottage Grove Park again this week behind the kid’s play area. Last week we opened up a fence line between the park and a neighbor’s yard that Parks and Rec has been getting complaints about and created a more open and airy area for the neighborhood. This week we’ll go after root balls, weeds, and other invasives to continue to groom this long neglected area of the park.

We’ll head back to S. Graham St. this week to keep digging up rootballs and clear the north side of the street, the corner planting beds and the cracks along the curb to give this stretch a nice reset for the neighborhood.

We’ll head back to Duwamish Head Greenspace with Heather on Friday and continue pulling ivy and connecting areas that we’ve cleared before, meeting at the same spot we worked last time by the newly opened street end.

We’ll visit Cottage Grove Park on the north side this week which is behind the kid’s play area. We’ll work on opening up a fence line between the park and a neighbor’s yard that Parks and Rec has been getting complaints about and create a more open and airy area for the neighborhood. There will also be lots of opportunities to spread out, work planting beds and other places in need.

I scouted some south Seattle projects with Jenny Frankl last week for the Spruced series, and we’ve queued up several SDOT projects for the neighborhood over the coming months. The first of which will be this week’s clearing of an overgrown section along South Graham street where sidewalks on both side of the street are difficult to navigate due to foliage taking over.

Hi all, we're helping Mary & Keith bring their belongings from their storage unit in Tukwila, back to their new place…one unit above their old apartment!

When you get to U-Haul, follow the signs for the U-Boxes which is around the back of the building. We’ll be packing a 15’ truck in Tukwila at 9am and then will head back to West Seattle where others are welcome to come help unpack the truck and get their items up into their apartment.

Last week we did a ton of clearing along the Summit Atlas Garden fence line, including removing the fence! This week we’ll continue helping teacher Ayla and her Garden Club students clean up the garden grounds and create more space. We’ll push back our start time this week so we have better crossover time with the kids.

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.