Palisades Cares

Palisades Cares Palisades Cares promotes community service. Major projects: school gardens, families in need, the environment

We encourage volunteering by:
- Networking with other organizations both in and out of the Palisades
- Organizing programs and workshops
- Spearheading volunteer projects. Our focus is Building Community through Volunteering. We network with local non-profits such as the American Legion, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, the Optimists and Rotary who help with our volunteer projects. Local businesses and or

ganizations support school supplies drives, toy drives and food drives. During the pandemic we urge you to support local social service organizations through your donations.

Do you want to install a wildlife garden at your school? There are some great ideas on the Sonoma School Garden Network ...
02/07/2024

Do you want to install a wildlife garden at your school? There are some great ideas on the Sonoma School Garden Network site:

Schoolyard Habitat Native Plant Guide

04/01/2023

Palisades Cares is no more. I'll be posting on Gardening with Marie from now on.

Celebrate Earth Month st your school, in your neighborhood or with the folks at Big Sunday at Carthy.
03/29/2023

Celebrate Earth Month st your school, in your neighborhood or with the folks at Big Sunday at Carthy.

11/19/2022

Please help people in need this time of year-donate to a food bank or food drive; donate to a toy drive or sponsor a family at holiday time.

The photo on this page is from a prior Palisades Cares Holiday Toy Drive.

02/17/2021

It’s time to start tomatoes inside. I ordered seeds from Baker Creek and Renees Garden.

12/29/2020

Since it's difficult to volunteer due to Covid-19 and the stay at home orders, please consider donating to organizations that you might usually work with.

Ones that we've worked with include: The People Concern (OPCC on the Westside); One Voice, Heal the Bay and The Westside Food Bank. Their work still goes on.

It's not too late to have the kids make their own gift wrap. Kidsgardening has some good ideas:
12/24/2020

It's not too late to have the kids make their own gift wrap. Kidsgardening has some good ideas:

Give Mother Nature the gift of reusable or biodegradable wrapping with these fun ideas for festive gift coverings at any time of year.

A way to help others this holiday season:Adopt a Family. Some friends and I are adopting a Head Start family through One...
11/17/2020

A way to help others this holiday season:

Adopt a Family. Some friends and I are adopting a Head Start family through One Voice, https://www.onevoice-la.org/ in Santa Monica. We are giving gift cards for food and other items instead of purchasing the items and wrapping them.

Please share if you have any ideas to help others this season.

Each year our Holiday Food Program provides Christmas food baskets, toys and books to 2,500 families (12,500 people) living in poverty in the Los Angeles area. All of the families are referred through the Head Start Program and meet federal and state mandated poverty levels.

11/11/2020

Please join Marie Steckmest's fundraising page for the Westside Food Bank's Virtual 5 K Hunger Walk.

09/17/2020

I need someone to organize and run garden workshops for kids at the Palisades Branch library. Email me at [email protected] if you're interested.

Also, we have funds to purchase potting soil and seedlings and pots if someone wants to put them together and distribute to kids. This is an option if we can't do in person workshops.

08/23/2020

Let us know if you can help distribute grow bags with seedlings and soil and recipes to local kids.

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We encourage volunteering by Palisadians and others by: - Networking with other organizations both in and out of the Palisades - Organizing programs and workshops

Environmental activities: sharing organic gardening practices and encouraging residents to grow their own food; encourage drought tolerant planting and planting for wildlife; encourage the use of reusable products and recycling; organizing gardening workshops.

Community activities: collecting school supplies and books; collecting toys; serving dinner at at shelters; collecting toiletries.

We network with local non-profits such as the American Legion, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, the Optimists and Rotary who help with our volunteer projects. Local businesses and organizations support school supplies drives, toy drives and food drives. Residents volunteer at Turning Point, in the Marquez School garden program and collect school supplies and toys for the respective drives. Our volunteers range in age from 6 to 85. Our blog is www.palisadescares.blogspot.com. Check us out!