AdkAction’s Compost for Good project hosted a Compost Town Hall on December 16 to kick off a year-long USDA grant project to support organics upcycling business development in the North Country. In two sessions, the community offered feedback on the topic “What does the North Country need to support a thriving community composting culture?”
You can watch recordings of each session below. Share your opinions by filling out this Compost for Good survey.
At the start of 2026, AdkAction changed how the Fair Food Card project reaches families across the North Country. Instead of enrolling participants directly, we partner with Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) offices in Clinton, Essex, Hamilton, Warren, Franklin, and St. Lawrence Counties to support low-income families of young children.
On a drizzly Saturday morning, 77 volunteers gathered at a capped landfill just north of the Town of Indian Lake and got to work. By noon, they had planted more than 5,800 native plants across an eight-acre site, a milestone moment in an ongoing effort to transform one of the
The Keeseville Community Garden was established in 2021 by AdkAction’s Tom Boothe Adirondack Intern, Kim Gonzales, to create a welcoming space where residents could learn to grow food, participate in educational workshops, and experience gardening in a shared, low-risk environment. Located in downtown Keeseville, the garden remains uniquely accessible to