Seven Days reporter Aaron Calvin recently joined our volunteer clean-up at the Urban Reserve and wrote about is experience in the story titled “Queen City Volunteers Pitch In to Clean Up Troubled Spots” published June 24, 2026.

WCAX featured the re-opening of the Champlain Street Park in their story “Newly reconstructed park opens in Burlington” published September 18, 2024. Additional coverage of the opening was published in the Vermont Business Magazine under the story “City of Burlington celebrates renovation of downtown pocket park” published the same day.

Published Dec 10, 2023:

In 2020, 50 new grassroots mutual aid groups emerged across Vermont. Since then, many of those networks have lost momentum, due mostly to lack of volunteers, a recent survey by VTDigger found. Others have steadily persisted, responding to ongoing needs for food, shelter and community.