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ReWild Long Island / South Fork
2025 Summer Program
to Fight Hunger & Climate Change
Learn about the Program: Partners, Locations, Schedules & FAQ
The ReWild / South Fork Summer Program provides High School students with hands-on experience fostering biodiversity, climate resilience and food security. Projects include:
Gardening for pollinators with native plants
Organic farming to benefit food-insecure community members
Oyster & bioswale pojects to benefit our waters
Composting & recycling
Identifying native & invasive plants
Advocacy and outreach
Applications are now closed. Join us next year when applications open on April 1st!
Question or Comments? Email SummerLeaders-sf@ReWildLongIsland.org
Projects & Partners & LOcations — UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR 2025
East Hampton High School Garden Club
Maintain the ReWild/EHHS pollinator garden as well as plant, grow and harvest organic vegetables.
EHHS campus on Long Lane in East Hampton
The gardens are on the right side of the school, behind the parking lot.
Food Rescue US
Rescue food, help our neighbors and the environment. Unload fresh produce from Balsam Farms & Amber Waves at Springs Food Pantry and assist with the new summer lunch program, packing lunch bags. Plus, learn how FoodRescue US helps feed our community; 12% of East Hampton’s population lives below the poverty level and even more are food-insecure. When it comes to the environment, food waste accounts for ~8% of total global greenhouse gas emissions.
Springs Food Pantry
5 Old Stone Highway, across from Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton map
Matthew Lester Memorial Pollinator Garden
This beautiful garden was designed by Matthew Lester as part of his Eagle Scout project and reflects his love of nature and long-standing commitment to our fragile ecosystem. Registered with the Pollinator Pathway, the varied native plants welcome pollinators of all shapes and sizes.
Located at the East Hampton Historical Farm Museum, 131 N Main St, East Hampton, NY 11937
off-street parking down the dirt driveway across Cedar Street from the East Hampton Fire Station
Share the Harvest Farm
An organic farm that grows and supplies healthy, fresh produce for local food banks and also operates a farm stand, offers the opportunity to learn the key components of organic farming and the considerations for running a community program as well as addressing food insecurity in our community.
55 Long Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937
enter through the black gate by EECO Farm sign across from EHHS
go down the dirt driveway to the 4th building on the right
ReWild / East Hampton Compost
Provides education and resources to our community about ways we can take positive action to reduce our contribution to climate change through topics that include East Hampton Compost dropoff, ReWild home composting, pollinator protection, native plants and recycling.
Wednesday Mornings, 7.45-11:15am at Amber Waves Farm
367 Main Street, Amagansett NY 11930
Saturdays, 8.45am-1.15pm at the Springs Farmers Market
Ashawagh Hall, 780 Springs Fireplace Road, East Hampton NY 11937
Saturdays, 9.45am-12.15pm at the Montauk Community Garden
at the corner of S. Etna and S. Edison
Run East Hampton Compost, the food scrap to compost program with the Town of East Hampton. We'll promote the program and educate community members on the importance of composting, sign up households, collect and weigh food scraps, and collect data that will be used to help the program keep growing. Participants may also contribute to the on-going social media campaign and website, etc.
ChangeHampton
Native Garden and Meadow planting & maintenance, supervised by Eco Harmony proprietor, Paul Muñoz.
East Hampton Town Hall, 159 Pantigo Road, East Hampton NY
The parking lot is in the back, near the Town Hall entrance and the pollinator garden.
Meet in the garden.
South Fork Sea Farmers
Works collaboratively with the East Hampton Town Shellfish Hatchery to expand and broaden educational programs and encourage other residents to be stewards of their marine environment.
The South Fork Sea Farmers are on a mission to educate and raise awareness of the importance of sustainable marine aquaculture and to inspire constructive action programs. Their goal is to promote and encourage more public oyster gardening which keeps our waters clean, provides habitat for marine life and improves our overall ecosystem. South Fork Sea Farmers is a 501(c)(3) organization.
Potential locations: 42 Gann Rd East Hampton (Three Mile Harbor), 142 Waterhole Rd, East Hampton (Hog Creek), 286 Gerard Dr., East Hampton (Accabonac), End of Crassen Blvd., Amagansett (Napeague Harbor), 159 E. Lake Dr (Montauk)
Surfrider Bioswale
The Surfrider Foundation is dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s ocean, waves and beaches, for all people, through a powerful activist network.
The Village Green Bioswale is contoured with gently sloped sides and planted with vegetation designed to absorb road runoff, filter pollution from stormwater, and provide native habitat while beautifying a public space. This garden project protects clean water in the Hook Pond watershed, which is threatened by harmful algal blooms and nutrient overloads of nitrogen and phosphorus from septic systems, fertilizer, and other runoff.
Meet on the Village Green by James Lane, across from St Luke’s Episcopal Church.
Park on James Lane.
The Methodist Lane Bioswale supports pollinators through native plants that have coevolved with our local bees, butterflies, moths, and more. Pollinator plants often have beautiful flowers and can bring color and life to your yard at home while supporting biodiversity.
Methodist Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937 is located across Pantigo Road from the EH Post Office / CVS Pantigo.
Park on Methodist Lane, which runs alongside the bioswale.
Meet near the intersection of Hook Mill Rd and Methodist Lane.
LONGHOUSE RESERVE
A public garden in transition, moving from traditional garden design to add native plants and regenerative gardening methods. This project incorporates a new native plant garden along with developing its educational materials.
133 Hands Creek Rd, East Hampton, NY 11937
Meet in the parking lot, by the archway into the reserve.
We may also visit with the following:
Perfect Earth Project and ⅔ for the Birds is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating, engaging, and inspiring individuals, land care professionals, and decision-makers to adopt toxic-free, nature-based, and climate-responsible landscaping practices necessary for a healthier, more sustainable—and beautiful—environment for all. 962 Springs Fireplace Rd, East Hampton, NY 11937
Third House Nature Center naturalists Vicki Bustamante will lead a series of walks that focus on identifying native trees, shrubs, and flowers as well as invasives at Camp Hero State Park in Montauk. Camp Hero State Park, Montauk, NY 11954 >> in Camp Hero along Camp Hero Road near the Point Woods trail head. (no parking fees)
Build in Kind builds awareness of the impact of development on our communities and environment through advocacy and zoning recommendations. location to be determined
Renewable Energy LI provides green energy solutions. location to be determined
2025 summer schedule
There will be plenty of morning and afternoon times so you’ll be able to choose projects that fit into your schedule, even if you have a summer job.
Sept-October Schedule Grid available soon
Will you be an Intern or a Volunteer?
Either way, all participants accrue community service hours that are required by EHHS and many other schools.
Interns commit to 60 hours of attendance over the summer and earn a $300 stipend. Internship schedules have some flexibility, and applicants are required to complete an interview. Interns are selected before volunteers and given first choice to sign up for events, then available slots are opened to volunteers. Some interns end up accumulating more than 60 hours.
Volunteers commit to working 30 hours over the summer, and do not get a stipend. There is a lot more schedule flexibility for volunteers and some end up working more than 30 hours.
If you cannot attend the weekly Saturday Zoom sessions, you may apply as a volunteer.
SUmmer program FAQ
The Organizing Team
The Summer Program is organized by a committee of adult and youth volunteers, who have worked hard to make the program possible. The organizing team consists of
Youth Organizers : Each year, we recruit highly motivated students from the previous year’s summer program to help organize the current program. These youth organizers are trained in leadership skills. They work from January through June creating the schedule, preparing publicity, interviewing incoming students and taking responsibility for mentoring at various locations.
Rewild Long Island Summer Program Committee Members: Adult organizers help to motivate and guide our youth organizers, while working side by side to make each year’s program successful.
Click on the students’ photos to get to know more about them!
