Keep Virginia Cozy

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The tickets are live, the festival is coming, and the excitement level is HIGH! For the past five years, we’ve SOLD OUT and used those ticket sales to support fellow nonprofits right here in our community — and y’all, we’re doing it again!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS 📅

May Day is coming and we’d love to have you out there with us!

On May 17, we’re getting out on the water with Riverside Outfitters for river cleanups, setting up a free outdoor gear repair station with Trail Hut, and hanging out with good people over local brews from our friends at Väsen!

Yes — we know it’s the same weekend as Dominion Riverrock. And honestly? That doesn’t matter. The river’s plenty big enough for more than one rad thing at a time.

Whether you come to help clean, fix some of your loved gear, grab a beer, or just be around a great community — y'all're welcome here!

Come do some good and spend the day celebrating the outdoors with us!

✨ We’re celebrating 100 years of the Blvd Bridge — and we’re doing it the COZY way! ✨

Join us on Saturday, November 8th for the Blvd Bridge Cozy Cleanup and a neighborhood celebration you won’t want to miss!

🧤 Cleanup: 9–10 AM
🎉 After-party festivities to follow!
🍔 Local food trucks
🎶 Local musicians
👨‍👩‍👧 Fun for the whole family

Together with Westover Hills Neighborhood Association, we’re keeping Virginia cozy — one piece of litter at a time.

Will you be there with us? Tag your cleanup buddy below and automatically be entered in a fun & cozy raffle we will be holding, day of, where the winner will get a brand new pair of HOKA shoes & a personal litter cleanup kit (personal picker, gloves, ultralight bag) to help keep Virginia COZY for all!!

Be kind.
Pick up litter.
Smile at strangers.
Celebrate community.
Keep Virginia Cozy for all!

Alright y'all...the question has been asked and the comment section is ready for ya!

Blow it up & tell us your favorite spots in Virginia & why they are important to you!

Then, make time to go there and cozify it a little bit..pack out some litter..hug a tree..have a drink by a creek..play with your pup in the field..do whatever it is you love to do and just remember to leave it better than when you got there!

Happy weekend, y'all!

Be kind.
Pick up litter.
Smile at strangers.
KEEP VIRGINIA COZY!

📷: me this morning on McAfee K**b

Good mornin, y'all! We are waking up to some RAD NEWS!!

Keep Virginia Cozy, alongside several other fantastic groups, has been nominated again as the BEST ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATION in the Blue Ridge!

We can't thank y'all enough for believing in our trashy mission enough to nominate us for this rad category! While we aren't in the litter business for the applause or the accolades...it is a wonderful way to highlight the true trashy heroes - Y'ALL!!

So please take a moment — click the link in our bio, go to the Business tab, scroll down, and select the organization that means the most to you! It would be so wonderful if it’s Keep Virginia Cozy, but the truth is, every group nominated deserves this recognition. We just hope y’all will vote for where your heart is!

Thank y'all again, so much, for this honor and we can't wait to get back outside with y'all next month at our cleanup with Tim Barry & November Fest!!

Be kind.
Pick up litter.
Smile at strangers.
Vote for your favorites.
Keep Virginia Cozy for all!

Have you started planning for the weekend yet?!

There are a lot of rad things happening around Virginia this weekend...folk fest, farmers markets, apple orchard stuff in the mountains, trails to hike in Shenandoah, the list goes on and on!

No matter what you pick, our advice remains the same: go outside. be kind. pick up litter.
KEEP VIRGINIA COZY FOR ALL!

Cozy It Forward Grant Winners Announced!!

We (y'all) did it! We raised the funds through our annual Brewgrass event, enough so to keep the cozy moving forward with a pilot mini grant program and we've picked our first two recipients out of a sea of rad ideas!!

Winner #1:
Create an art piece of the James River combining painting, embroidery, and cyanotype
The community side: I want to lead a cyanotype workshop (kid-friendly, but open to all ages) at the beginning of a cleanup. I'll show everyone how to use nature (plants, flowers, leaves, rocks) to make cyanotypes (sun prints). We'll develop them on site and leave them to dry during the trash cleanup. After the cleanup, people can take home their masterpieces, or leave them with me and I'll incorporate them into my painting!
At the end of all of this, I'd like to either donate the painting to JRPS if they want it, or sell it and donate the money to KVC or a parks-related group.

Winner #2:
EarthLab equips folks with the naturalist skills needed to make those authentic connections possible through school and homeschool-based programs for middle and high school students, free and low cost public outings for adults, collaborations with other orgs, and professional learning for teachers. All our programs are in-person and in the field.

We'd love to purchase 15 hand loupes that can help our participants get up close and personal with natural phenomena during our programs. This is a simple idea, but we believe it's a powerful one. These loupes will be used again and again to slow down, observe, and cultivate a sense of wonder and curiosity about things like bark and leaves when learning to ID trees, gills and pores when exploring fungi and lichen, and the details of plants and insect behavior when nature journaling, just to name a few. As a young organization, building up our stash of field equipment will enable us to create space for even more transformative experiences.

We hope these funds help fuel creativity, foster a sense of learning and wonder, and help more folks feel connected & cozy in this wonderful place we get to call home!

We don't need tools to make change...just good humans & rad vibes!