Asheville GreenWorks

This past Saturday, we celebrated the 50th annual Clean Streams Day! A huge thank you to all of our StreamKeepers and volunteers for spending the day making our rivers cleaner. 🛶💙
Our friends at provided drinks and their Jon boat. Thanks to for providing the shuttle and the wonderful folks at made us a rainbow of unique t-shirts!

Grow with us! 🌱 We are seeking a dedicated Community Forestry Coordinator to help power the next chapter of our reforestation efforts in Western North Carolina. Working hand-in-hand with our Director of Reforestation Initiatives, you’ll help translate our mission into action by coordinating essential nursery operations, community outreach, and innovative programming. Head to https://www.ashevillegreenworks.org/about to learn more and apply today!

Our 50th annual Clean Streams Day River Clean up is almost here! Join us Saturday, June 13, 2026, as we celebrate a historic effort to restore our waterways. We provide everything you need to have a fun day paddling the French Broad as you remove litter from the river. After the clean-up, join us at Sierra Nevada's Back Porch Bar where we will celebrate our hard work and 50 years of Clean Streams Day! . Volunteers will receive a drink ticket provided Sierra Nevada. A huge thank you to Sierra Nevada for helping us celebrate!

Please let us know if you are joining us by signing up on the POINT App. You can find a link to our volunteer event listings on our website at AshevilleGreenWorks.org

We hope to see you on the river!

Thanks to WLOS ABC 13 for covering the 50th annual Clean Streams Day River Cleanup. Coming up Saturday, June 13th. Join us as we jump in the French Broad River at Westfeldt River Park and get our river ready for the summer.

Asheville environmental group marks milestone with 50th annual river cleanup An environmental group in western North Carolina is marking a milestone in its activism with its 50th annual river cleanup.

Mark your calendars for the 6/02/2026 Community Shred Event being hosted by Council on Aging Buncombe County at the Tanger Outlets, 800 Brevard Road, Asheville, NC
***Limit 3 Boxes per Car ***
Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm
For more information, call 828-277-8288 or visit www.coabc.org

This is NOT an Asheville GreenWorks event; we are just spreading the word about this event on behalf of the Council for Aging Buncombe County.

These past few months have kept our forestry team busy!

In March, college students joined us for their Alternative Spring Break service trips, we held the first tree distribution of the spring season, and hosted an open house at our native tree nursery and fruit orchard to celebrate NC Arbor Day.

April and May brought more tree distributions, another open house on Earth Day, and four tree planting events in Buncombe and Madison counties.

We crunched the numbers, and here is everything we accomplished this spring:

🪴Potted 4,000+ bare root trees
🌱Distributed 3,000+ free trees
🌳Planted 80 large mature trees

A huge thank you goes out to our team of TreeKeepers, volunteers, community partners, funders, and free tree recipients! By working together, our impact grows stronger, and our canopy grows greener. 💚

The RAD Clean-Up is Still On! Tomorrow, May 30th, from 10am-12:30pm. We will meet at WWedge Brewery(129 Roberts St, Asheville, NC). We are encouraging folks to grab their raincoat and a pair of boots and join us tomorrow rain or shine! We will plan for rain and hope for shine.

We will bring a limited number of rubberized boots and ponchos for volunteers to use during the clean-up if needed. Please bring your own personal gear if you have it.

So grab your friends, family, or neighbor and join us! Or come solo and make a new friend. You can sign-up for the RAD Clean-Up by going to AshevilleGreenWorks.org and clicking on volunteer opportunities then you will see it listed in upcoming events. Instagram users can find a link to our volunteer opportunities in our bio and search for “RAD Clean-Up” in our upcoming events.

We hope you will join us!

This is a quarterly event organized in collaboration with RRiverLinkand Unified RAD

We want the happy, sunny vibes, not the soggy struggle!

To keep our amazing volunteers safe and ensure we have the best possible day on the river, we are postponing our 50th Annual Clean Streams Day. With heavy rain, wind, and cool temperatures in the forecast for this weekend, we’ve decided to wait for bluer skies.

🗓️ NEW DATE: June 13th
🕙 TIME: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Important Note: Your original registration will not automatically transfer. If you can still join us for the new date, please take a quick second to re-register here: https://dash.pointapp.org/events/683340

This just gives us more time to recruit friends and neighbors to help us protect our waterways. See you on the river in June! 🛶

May 20th is a special day as it's author and river advocate Wilma Dykeman's birthday. We've dedicated our annual Clean Streams Day River clean up to Wilma since 2011, and we want to give you a chance to continue her legacy by jumping in the river with us on June 13. Register below if you can help us clean up the French Broad and celebrate Wilma's amazing contributions to our local waterways. https://dash.pointapp.org/events/683340

Saturday May 16th was the official first Hendersonville Spring Sweep. Thanks to our partner City of Hendersonville Stormwater for helping us put this great project at the almost completed Grove Street Nature Park. This gem of a property is JUST outside of Downtown and will be acres of walking/biking trails with multiple habitat zones, two creeks and loads of beautiful native plantings. Volunteers came from Buncombe and Henderson Counties to cleanup an old dump site and some Helene debris. 1,240lbs in just plastic trash, 9 tires a huge pile of rusty metal was recovered. Outstanding! Thank you to our StreamKeeper volunteers Kristin, Phillip and Melissa for helping to guide this project. More cleanups in Henderson County are on the WAY! Check out https://pointapp.org/orgs/8301 to register to stay up to date on our outings.