SeedworkUrban Restoration · Climate Action · Community
The climate needs plans.
Communities need people.
We bring both.
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Our Work
We plant in the cracks between policy and community.
Municipal grant deadlines don't wait for community consensus. Community trust doesn't wait for bureaucratic timelines. We've spent five years learning how to work in both worlds at once.
Urban lots rewilded. School programs that turn into careers. Corporate offset budgets redirected from spreadsheets into soil. We document everything — not because we're required to, but because the communities we work with deserve proof.
Urban Rewilding
Vacant lots, highway edges, and forgotten corridors transformed into native habitat and community green space.
Climate Ambassador Training
Youth and adults in underserved neighborhoods trained as certified climate stewards — then hired to lead projects.
Corporate-to-Soil Offsets
We turn corporate sustainability budgets into tangible, photographable, auditable ecological restoration.
5 yrs
in the field, not the boardroom
hectares restored across 6 American cities
Including brownfields, riparian corridors, and urban schoolyards
The People
Everyone here has dirt under their fingernails and a story about why they showed up.
Dara Osei
Project Lead · Detroit, MI
"The day we handed over the keys to that first restored lot, a grandmother sat down on the bench we'd built and just started crying. That's why I show up."
Dara Osei
Project Lead
Aisha Kamara
Community Organizer · Baltimore, MD
"We've been promised parks for twelve years. Seedwork was the first organization that came in and actually asked us what we wanted — then built it."
Aisha Kamara
Community Organizer
Sione Tuilagi
Restoration Ecologist · Los Angeles, CA
"Willows we planted two seasons ago are already providing nesting habitat. The river is remembering what it was."
Sione Tuilagi
Restoration Ecologist
Mei-Ling Tran
Climate Ambassador · Oakland, CA
"I was 17 when I joined the ambassador cohort. I'm 22 now and I run it. Nobody told me climate work could look like this."
Mei-Ling Tran
Climate Ambassador
Priya Nair
Corporate Partnerships · New York, NY
"I used to help companies buy carbon credits they'd never see. Now I take their sustainability directors to the actual soil. The conversation changes completely."
Priya Nair
Corporate Partnerships
Yemi Adeyemi
Youth Ambassador · Houston, TX
"My block flooded three times last year. I'm 16 and I'm already doing something about it. That feels different than anything I've learned in school."
Yemi Adeyemi
Youth Ambassador
Tomás Reyes
Soil Scientist · Chicago, IL
"I've taken soil cores on four continents. The most degraded soil I've ever tested was three miles from where I grew up. We're fixing that."
Tomás Reyes
Soil Scientist
Marcus Webb
Volunteer Coordinator · Philadelphia, PA
"On planting days we get 40, sometimes 80 volunteers. Doctors next to high schoolers next to people who've never held a trowel. That's what a neighborhood looks like."
Marcus Webb
Volunteer Coordinator
Claudia Ferreira
Municipal Liaison · Portland, OR
"I've worked in city government for 11 years. Seedwork is the first community partner that comes in already knowing our grant calendar. That changes everything."
Claudia Ferreira
Municipal Liaison
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climate ambassadors trained and employed
72% from the neighborhoods where projects took root
$4.2M
Corporate offset funding redirected to tangible soil work
47
Municipal partners across EPA Region 5 and beyond
89%
Of ambassador cohort graduates remain in climate careers
native plants in the ground since 2021
Zero purchased from outside the region
Start a Project
Ready to put roots in the ground?
Tell us about your community and what it needs. We'll follow up within two business days — no pitch deck, just a conversation.
Works within your grant timeline
Impact documented for reports
Community co-design process
Not ready yet?
Download Our 2025 Impact Report
Fourteen projects, six cities, three years of outcomes — documented in the kind of detail you can put in a grant application.