Imagine Water Works

Imagine Water Works Reimagining the future through art, science, and connection. Focused on climate justice, land stewardship, and disaster readiness and response.

Stewards of The Imagination Farm & Mutual Aid Response Network. Learn about our team at imaginewaterworks.org.

DISTRIBUTION: Friday 9/4 and Saturday 9/63pm - 6pm both daysSandbags (Limit 12 per vehicle)Seed Library PacketsCan Opene...
09/02/2026

DISTRIBUTION: Friday 9/4 and Saturday 9/6
3pm - 6pm both days

Sandbags (Limit 12 per vehicle)
Seed Library Packets
Can Openers
2026 New Orleans Community Resource Guide
“What to Do When the News Scares You” by Jacqueline B. Toner, PhD

AND Hurricane Kits, containing:
Waterproof Folder w/ list of documents to protect
Waterproof Boot Covers
Whistle/Flashlight/Glow Stick Combo
Natural Bug Repellent
N95 Mask
Cooling Gel Neck Bandana
Hurricane Prep Checklist
Hurricane Hub Information w/ resources for q***r, trans, immigrant, and disabled folks

2718 PAINTERS STREET


ABOUT THE BOOK: Published by the American Psychological Association, this book offers a way to help children put scary events into perspective and help them calm down and cope. It includes calming techniques, how to talk about scary things, how to know the difference between important news vs. news for clicks, and how to make a plan for scary things. By the end of the book, your kiddo will be a “Finder of Real Facts”.

Shoutout to Glassroots (a Glass Half Full partner) for the sandbags and for their partnership on the last distro!

Snapshots from another Indigenous Youth Workshop! We covered: 🌱 skill shares and making banana cordage, led by youth🌱 a ...
08/31/2026

Snapshots from another Indigenous Youth Workshop! We covered:

🌱 skill shares and making banana cordage, led by youth
🌱 a discussion on collectively navigating racism, q***rphobia, and power dynamics in Native spaces to create expansive Indigenous futures, led by Klie
🌱 stickball history, mound cultures, and stickball practice, led by Jenna Mae and Nathan

* The day’s stickball champions pictured first 😎🥍
* Doodles pictured last, created during mound dreaming
* And the ever-present glow of Morris Bart pictured everywhere, watching over our stickball field sacredly lol

Today was our first Indigenous Youth Farmers workshop! We learned how to make natural dyes, and we harvested plant relat...
08/15/2026

Today was our first Indigenous Youth Farmers workshop! We learned how to make natural dyes, and we harvested plant relatives from around the farm to test different pigments. We learned that banana flower actually creates a light purple, which then color changes into a beautiful blue! Blue is one of the more rare pigments to find in nature, so this is very exciting.

We painted some dried okra with clay pigments, and we learned how to make cordage (rope) from banana stems.

Throughout the program, we’re hoping to keep learning about the abundance all around us at the farm and beyond. This is where hope lives.

Thank you to Dr. Tammy Greer for teaching us so much today about how nature provides and how important it is to keep growing our plants so that we can grow our culture, our colors, our medicine, and our futures.

* The last pic is a special “welcome bag” we put together for the youth participants today to help prepare them for their farm work days and for the rest of hurricane season. 💚🪶🌱🎨

DISTRO TOMORROW, SAT 8/15, 9-11AMSandbags (Limit 12 per vehicle)Seed Library PacketsCan Openers2026 New Orleans Communit...
08/14/2026

DISTRO TOMORROW, SAT 8/15, 9-11AM
Sandbags (Limit 12 per vehicle)
Seed Library Packets
Can Openers
2026 New Orleans Community Resource Guide
“What to Do When the News Scares You” by Jacqueline B. Toner, PhD

AND Hurricane Kits, containing:
Waterproof Folder w/ list of documents to protect
Waterproof Boot Covers
Whistle/Flashlight/Glow Stick Combo
Natural Bug Repellent
N95 Mask
Cooling Gel Neck Bandana
Hurricane Prep Checklist
Hurricane Hub Information w/ resources for q***r, trans, immigrant, and disabled folks

2718 PAINTERS STREET

w/ Glassroots a Glass Half Full partner

ABOUT THE BOOK: Published by the American Psychological Association, this book offers a way to help children put scary events into perspective and help them calm down and cope. It includes calming techniques, how to talk about scary things, how to know the difference between important news vs. news for clicks, and how to make a plan for scary things. By the end of the book, your kiddo will be a “Finder of Real Facts”.

Scroll through for some of our favorite excerpts from the book!

🐰 Fundraiser/Voting Update: Introducing Jacques HUYA Potat, rescue rabbit! 🐰Y’all voted and it was such a close tie betw...
07/23/2026

🐰 Fundraiser/Voting Update: Introducing Jacques HUYA Potat, rescue rabbit! 🐰

Y’all voted and it was such a close tie between the two names, we combined them ☺️ We’re delighted to have such a fitting name for this lil’ potato on our ‘lil Creole Indigenous farm. And we are indeed filled with gratitude (aka “huya” translated from Chitimacha) here often.

Thanks to all who voted and donated, he’s getting a vet checkup tomorrow! We’ll make sure he’s free of disease or bugs, and are excited to learn more about him since he was abandoned on our doorstep. Shoutout also to folks who offered supplies, like this foraging mat he’s loving today 🥕🥕🥕

We diddd take longer to announce than expected (sorry!). In the meantime, we focused on Tropical Storm Bertha… and right before that, we actually had a large oak struck by lightening on the farm, causing quite a bit of damage. More to come on that, as we’ll need plenty of help on tree removal in the days to come…

Lastly, we do still need help supporting Huya’s ongoing needs, as well as all the plants and creatures and humans (and tree removal) around the farm!

If you become a monthly sustaining donor through our website at any amount by the end of August, we’ll mail you a custom bunny block print, handmade by our team. It’ll have a bunny and HUYA, and if you follow our IG stories you’ll see a preview soon 😉

Thanks for being around for the hard stuff, silly stuff, and storms and veggies and bunnies. Our work is best when we get to be and do more than just one thing at a time. 💚

📣 TROPICAL STORM BERTHA UPDATE + Q&A 📣We continue to not worry about Bertha in New Orleans, beyond doing what you’d norm...
07/21/2026

📣 TROPICAL STORM BERTHA UPDATE + Q&A 📣

We continue to not worry about Bertha in New Orleans, beyond doing what you’d normally do to prepare for potential summer thunderstorms.

The big cone graphics look scary! It’s important to know:

1) In this exact moment, Bertha is as strong as she will become. So if news reports of a growing storm are anxiety producing, just know that this was expected and we’re at the top of the strength curve right now.

2) Within 24 hours, AKA before reaching land here, she’ll be chopped by wind shear and will decrease in strength.

3) The bulk of this storm, including wind and rain, is on the South side - which will be in the Gulf.

So while we are often prepared for rapid intensification, for this one *we expect the opposite* thanks to the perfectly timed wind shear coming down from the north.

In case we get localized street flooding like a regular weekend here these days, park your car on higher ground prior to landfall tomorrow night.

As always, we’re here before, during, and after the storm - with a combo of Indigenous science, lived experience, and Emergency Management training - and we’ve got your back. Check out our Hurricane Hub online any time (guides, checklists, disaster rights), and find us on Facebook at “Imagine Mutual Aid (New Orleans)”.

Drop your questions below for the Q&A if you have ‘em!

Snapshots from retreat, where we continued to build new programming, fortified existing work, updated our annual hurrica...
07/10/2026

Snapshots from retreat, where we continued to build new programming, fortified existing work, updated our annual hurricane guide, and practiced traditional crafts like weaving the endangered Houma half-hitch.

After five days in the hills of northern Mississippi we ventured our way back home via the Mississippi Mound Trail. Many thanks to Sipp Culture and Foxfire Ranch for hosting us!

The first pic is our final “Bok Bok Bam Bulletin”: a playful way to document our time together every year. Our retreat bulletins are inspired by the Gwangju Uprising’s Fighter Bulletin, and allow us to practice rapid printmaking as a tool of resistance. We remain committed to finding joy, documenting truth, and building meaningful skills for these wild times.

Folks in the pics and on Insta:
Jenna Elaine Vagts klie Sarah Tuttle Goff Deja Jones yrécha Coleen Murphy

🔹🔹The 2026 NOCRG is available NOW at www.imaginewaterworks.org/new-orleans-community-resource-guide/🔹🔹This is a nearly 1...
07/10/2026

🔹🔹The 2026 NOCRG is available NOW at www.imaginewaterworks.org/new-orleans-community-resource-guide/🔹🔹

This is a nearly 100-page guide to free or low cost services across the New Orleans area. Thanks to a mighty team of volunteers, listed resources were contacted by phone and asked to verify all info. Providers were specifically asked about funding for uninsured patients, the availability of Spanish translation services, and services for transgender and non-binary folks.

Important things to note:
🔹The guide changes every year in response to needs on the ground. This year we’ve created a new “Immigrant Justice & Solidarity” section, and we’ve expanded the food and mental health sections.
🔹We have always welcomed folks to print your own copies. Our website has files formatted to print both full size or booklet style.
🔹We’re happy to work with other orgs and groups to get copies to your people. If your group or workplace may want to print copies, but would need to ask questions, make edits, or add logos/etc to get the printing costs approved, DM or email us. Let’s get creative!
🔹Printing booklets this size costs $$$ and we started a fundraiser last year that’s still running to help cover printing costs. Donations always welcome.
🔹None of this would be possible without Coleen Murphy‘s leadership every year. Thank you Coleen!

Lastly, at theimaginationfarm we’ve been busy updating our Hurricane Hub and getting everything ready to help keep yall safe through hurricane season. As we have for over a decade, Imagine Water Works will continue to share critical, time sensitive, fact checked information — and while social media has many flaws, it’s still our quickest way to get emergency information to folks. Please help your friends plug into our channels before the next storm hits 💕

🐰 NAME OUR BUNNY RESCUE!🐰It’s your turn to vote for the winner!How to vote:1. Send $5 through Venmo (Imagine Water Works...
07/06/2026

🐰 NAME OUR BUNNY RESCUE!🐰
It’s your turn to vote for the winner!

How to vote:
1. Send $5 through Venmo (Imagine Water Works) or our website (imaginewaterworks.org)
2. Include the name you’re voting for in the donation notes

🐰 Every $5 = one vote
🐰 You can vote more than once
🐰 We’ll post leaderboard updates via theimaginationfarm and stories
🐰 If your favorite name starts falling behind on the leaderboard, you can always vote again 😉

✨ BONUS ✨ If you become a monthly sustaining donor, we’ll double your votes AND mail you a limited edition bunny block print, handmade by our team.

Voting ends Sunday night! 📣

Name translations:
🐰 “Huya” is Chitimacha for “thank you” and basically a spirit of goodness
🐰 “Blanc” = “white” in French, may be paired with tit’ (little like petite) for tit’ Blanc
🐰 “Jacques” and “Potat” rhyme! It’s a play off “patate”, French for potato / in Cajun circles we also use patate to refer to babies and other lil round cuties

* Our ambitious fundraising goal is $1000 to cover the initial setup, hurricane bunny evacuation supplies, and a year of care. This guy was a very unexpected permanent visitor/rescue who was dumped at the welding shop across the street. Every donation helps us provide medical care, food, supplies, shelter, and all the bunny necessities for a new life at the farm.

Last post and our full lineup. Only a few hours left to register!Folks outside of the age requirement are now also welco...
07/01/2026

Last post and our full lineup. Only a few hours left to register!

Folks outside of the age requirement are now also welcome. If we have extra spots, you’ll get a chance to join us until all spots are filled.

Indigenous Youth Farmers Program Registration due JULY 1: bit.ly/tifyouth26

Program details:
- August through November
- 6 workshops
- 2 field trips
- $300 stipend
- graduation + certificate of completion
- travel support within Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Bernard
- 30-42 hours of hands-on farm work/training
- option to become a paid Imagination Farmer at the end of the program

Open to youth ages 15-26 with North, Central, or South American Indigenous heritage.

* We encourage participation for all, including BIPOC individuals and multi-tribal, multi-racial, and multi-ethnic individuals. No one will be turned away due to a lack of tribal information or enrollment. Reach out to [email protected] with questions or help on the application.

Address

2718 Painters Street
New Orleans, LA
70122

Telephone

+15048580200

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