Asheville GreenWorks

06/08/2026

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!

06/05/2026

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.

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

06/01/2026

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.

05/30/2026

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. 💚

05/29/2026

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

05/21/2026

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! 🛶

05/20/2026

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

05/18/2026

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.

05/18/2026

POSTPONED TO JUNE 13, 2026, due to weather concerns (originally scheduled for May 23, 2026). June 13, 2026 will be the 50th annual Clean Streams Day River Cleanup, and YOU could be paddling our 1973 Grumman, as seen in this 1984 photo. It's amazing that we still have this canoe in our fleet, and YOU could be the lucky person to fill it up with trash. Register yourself and or your team to help us bring back our river. https://dash.pointapp.org/events/683340

05/18/2026

For the fifth year running, we've partnered with Realtors from Keller Williams for a super fun RED DAY river cleanup. They use this opportunity to not only give back through service but they raise funds to support our river clean up program. We ran the Pearson Bridge to Silverline section of the French Broad and overloaded the boats with TRASH. Mostly old cars parts from when the river was lined with junk yards but also a healthy amount of items pushed in from Helene. We will be running river cleanups now until late October. Email [email protected] or check out our events page to join in on the next cleanup. We have the boats if you have the time.