Join the moonshot to
rewild NYC
New York has 50 Central Parks worth of unused space across its rooftops, balconies, and sidewalks.
We're bringing New Yorkers together on a lighthearted mission to rewild it all, one tiny garden at a time.
Join 1,601 other New Yorkers
How It Works
Mulch is an open source coalition of gardening enthusiasts, urban planners, and ecology nerds with a simple goal:
Repurpose the city's unused space to make it more resilient, nature-filled, and lighthearted.
There's space all around us — from bare walls, to blank terraces, to empty tree beds — and we think all that could just as easily be living walls, rooftop farms, and tree bed gardens. So we're getting after it!
The plan is simple. Bring folks together. Try stuff out. Share learnings. Rinse and repeat.
And have some fun along the way 😊
Meet the Team
Andrea Childress
Organizing Team
Maya Pandurangan
Organizing Team
Vigi Cutler
Organizing Team
Ian Phillips
Organizing Team
Frequently Asked Questions
Mulch is a free, volunteer-led club. The goal is to bring New Yorkers together to accelerate nature restoration in our city.
Pieces of mulch are tiny and commonplace, but when they come together, they have an incredible ability to both safeguard and nurture soil life. In a lot of ways, we think a nature-filled New York City isn't that far out of reach — we need just a bit of metaphorical mulch.
Yes, we are operating completely within NYC Parks and Rec's public planting guidelines. Parks and Recreation ultimately has jurisdiction over all street trees.
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