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.

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.

Robyn reached out about helping prep the park for some new plantings she’ll be working on in the coming months. We’ll head in and work on removing invasives from the park and giving it an initial Spruce. Of course the trail is right there too for our free range trash walkers. Lots of opportunities!

The past month we’ve removed butterfly bush 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.

We’ll meet forest steward Heather Scott at her entrance into Schmitz Park off Spokane St., and continue removing English ivy in her parcel which is quickly returning to a native state.

We’ll head back to Hamilton Viewpoint this week to continue the great work we started last Thursday over the view railing as well as working on invasives in the planting beds, which surprisingly still look fantastic from last year’s heavy clean ups.

The past three weeks we’ve removed butterfly bush 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.

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 meet forest steward Heather Scott at her entrance into Schmitz Park off Spokane St., and continue removing English ivy in her parcel which is quickly returning to a native state.

We’ll head to Hamilton Viewpoint this week for our first visit of the year heading into Spring. I swung by recently and couldn’t believe how nice the central planting beds still looked from last year’s heavy clean ups—but there’s always more to do.

The past two weeks we’ve removed butterfly bush 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 stretch is in the industrial area directly under elevated Highway 99 and is a trash-rich environment.

We'll drop back in along the Alki Trail and continue south where we’ve been opening up the fence line since last year—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 drop back in along the Alki Trail and continue south where we’ve been opening up the fence line since last year—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.