Placid Earth: Student-Run Composter
Since 2019 AdkAction has served as the fiscal sponsor for Placid Earth, a student-run composting business in Lake Placid.
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Fair Share
Started in 2021, AdkAction’s Fair Share project sponsors low-income families to participate in season-long Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm share programs at no cost. This project builds equity in access, so low-income community members can take advantage of the health, environmental, and social benefits of participating in a CSA, while supporting small farms through upfront investment ahead of the growing season.
Clean Water Safe Roads
Road Salt pollution is threatening Adirondack waters. Studies now show that Adirondack lakes and streams near roads are contaminated and drinking water wells are becoming contaminated at an alarming rate.
Adirondack Pollinator Project
We empower people to take individual and collective action to ensure a future where pollinators thrive, native habitat abounds, and Adirondack residents and visitors are engaged pollinator advocates.
Capped Landfill Pollinator Habitat
AdkAction is partnering with the Town of Indian Lake to transform a closed, capped landfill into an eight-acre native pollinator habitat. This three-year demonstration project will test how unused landfill sites across the Adirondacks can be restored to support bees, butterflies, and other vital pollinators.
Broadband for All
We are working to create universal access to high-speed broadband in the Adirondacks.
Long Term Rental Catalyst
The Land Bank Project’s goal is to address the affordable housing shortage for low and middle income families in the Adirondacks by taking a lead role in catalyzing the development of a regional land bank.
Fair Food Cards
The Fair Food project began in 2021 as an evolution of AdkAction’s pandemic-era food security initiatives. What started as a small, locally grounded effort to help working families access nutritious food has grown into a trusted regional model that supports both household food security and Adirondack farmers.
Past Projects
Don’t Be Salty ADK
AdkAction’s ‘Don’t Be Salty ADK’ public outreach campaign, launched in 2023, encourages responsible salt application practices for households, businesses, and municipalities in the Adirondack region.
SNAP Online Guide
As online grocery shopping becomes more common, ensuring that SNAP participants can access these options is an important step toward more equitable food systems. This guide, Modernizing Food Access with SNAP Online, is designed for small and community-based food retailers interested in accepting SNAP benefits for online purchases. Drawing from AdkAction’s experience, the guide walks through the process of becoming SNAP online authorized, outlining the time, resources, and key steps involved. It also highlights how expanding digital sales and delivery can help reach customers in food deserts, reduce barriers for those with limited mobility, and create new market opportunities for local food providers.
Keeseville Community Arts Festival
AdkAction is partnering with the Town of Indian Lake to transform a closed, capped landfill into an eight-acre native pollinator habitat. This three-year demonstration project will test how unused landfill sites across the Adirondacks can be restored to support bees, butterflies, and other vital pollinators.
Land Bank Incubator
The Land Bank Project’s goal is to address the affordable housing shortage for low and middle income families in the Adirondacks by taking a lead role in catalyzing the development of a regional land bank.
Compost for Good
The goal of the Adirondack Compost for Good project is to help Adirondack communities turn food and other organic “wastes” into high-quality compost. This process keeps nutrients in the community, which builds local resilience, heals soils, and helps reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Farmacy
Local food has innumerable benefits, yet not everyone has easy access in our communities. The Farmacy Project works to make local food easier to find, buy, and eat, even when other grocery options are not available. This partnership between AdkAction and Keeseville Pharmacy serves as a model for bringing healthy local food to rural communities. We replicated the model at Mountain Weavers Farm Store in Port Henry in August 2019.
Student Film Festival
Beyond the Peaks film festival is a red carpet celebration of student creativity and talent that gives Adirondack youth an opportunity to learn filmmaking skills, a platform to have their voices heard, and a chance to win prizes!
Tom Boothe River Park
The Tom Boothe Whitewater Park will add recreational value and support increased economic activities in downtown Saranac Lake. AdkAction transferred implementation of the park to the Village of Saranac Lake in 2022.
Emergency Food Packages
In late March, 2020, AdkAction partnered with the Hub on the Hill to create Emergency Food Packages for local individuals and families facing food insecurity due to the COVID 19-crisis. These boxes of healthy food sourced from local farms were delivered to the doorsteps of Adirondack residents in need. The project overcame three of the most common barriers to healthy food access: cost, transportation, and cooking skill.
Fair Property Assessments
Properties in the Adirondacks are unique and range from off-the-grid to great camp luxury. AdkAction held property assessors conferences in 2008, 2010, 2011, and 2015 to provide the training to ensure fair and consistent property assessments for all residents, both year-round and seasonal.
Early Childhood Education
Experts have concluded that early childhood education, from birth to three years old, changes life outcomes dramatically. We were involved in the early stages of helping to form the Birth 2 Three Alliance in the Adirondacks.