I’ve been stressing about my thesis presentation tomorrow and I decided that there’s no better way to de-stress than a morven trip! Morven Kitchen Garden is UVA’s project in sustainable agriculture, and there’s really no way to spend a warm Friday afternoon. It also happens to be one of my favorite places in Charlottesville. This trip is beginner-friendly, and the …
Helloooooooooo odc gremlins! I’ve been getting that community service itch, so come join me and Pietro in giving back this Saturday afternoon. The double rush of getting outside AND doing a good thing???? Wow. Nothing better. (Also free Bodo’s 👀) We’ll be picking up trash at Pollocks Branch Trail, a local Charlottesville stream and trail, with the Rivanna Conservation Alliance’s …
Hello friends! Are you feeling the weight of midterms on your shoulders? Screen time got you down? Wondering why every conceivable grocery store item must come wrapped in plastic? That one has been a big grievance for me recently. Well then…what might it look like to live a simple, sustainable life? Come join me on Saturday and meet some folks …
I love trees. I KNOW you love trees. Wouldn’t you like to see more of them? YES! Yes you would! The Rivanna Conservation Alliance is a nonprofit watershed organization that helps keep the Rivanna River healthy. As part of their Rivanna River Forest Health and Resilience Project, they plan to plant a total of 600 trees across 3 city and …
Our ropes had many sends in the desert, but now they are FULL of that sweet desert sand. We want our ropes to be squeaky clean for spring climbing, so come help us do a thorough rope clean at the Shrack on Friday! We will teach you how to properly clean ropes and check them for any damage so that …
water? you doing here? oh just cleaning up this waterway. …anyway…Hello friends! Alana and I are facilitating an epic collab with SURFRIDER!! We will be doing a Rivanna River clean-up at 2pm on 2/28 to keep our local waterways clean. You will get to pick up trash and meet some fellow water lovers. Yay! Enough said. If you know you …
Hello friends!! Every month the Rivanna Trails Foundation hosts a trail maintenance work party to maintain a section of the trail. I love the Rivanna trail…you love the Rivanna Trail…so let’s help keep it in good shape for the Charlottesville community. I will also be supplying bagels. Pull up. Here’s the plan: – 8:30: Meet at Echols – 8:45: Arrive …
Hello friends! In addition to all the super fun and stoke-filled outdoorsy adventures that ODC leads, we also want to prioritize taking care of our planet and the people we share it with. This committee gives ODC folks a great opportunity to learn about and get involved with service and sustainability projects in the area by working with other clubs, …
Hello all This Sunday we are going to Gentle Acres Animal Haven (https://www.gentleacresanimalhaven.org/) and planting some apple trees. At the beginning of the semester there was a trip where we started a small garden there, and adding fruit trees is the next step in helping the animal haven become for self sufficient. Apples are considered a prime treat by the …
Come join me, Emma, and Mackenzie at Morven Kitchen Garden this Friday. MKG is UVA’s project in sustainable agriculture, and it’s a cool place to spend a nice Friday afternoon! This trip is beginner-friendly, and the volunteer work is mostly small manual labor tasks, like harvesting produce, weeding, etc. Be sure to bring water/snacks and clothes you feel comfortable gardening …
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If you’ve ever talked to me for longer than maybe 20 min, you’ve probably thought, “Wow, this girl just won’t shut up about trail work.” Come find out why! (Spoiler: It’s because it’s really fun and really gratifying) ODC has a section of trail in Shenandoah we get to maintain, and that’s where Lillie and I are going THIS FRIDAY! …
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Heyyyy y’all Kate and evelyn and steven here for some more chaos and confusion. If you’ve been feeling guilty all week because you’ve been throwing plastic straws at turtles (we know you have), save your morality by coming on our Guilt Trip (hehe) and pick up trash to make you (and the turtles) feel better! we’re doing this once more …
Hellooooo fellow trail wanderers!! I don’t know about you but I’m very happy the seemingly eternal rain is over so I can go outside and enjoy the sunshine again. If you’re in the same boat, join me on Saturday 10/19 for some trail magic! It will (hopefully) be a beautiful fall morning and we can enjoy Virginia’s fall foliage together …
Did someone say “Let’s go to Morven on Friday”? I think so. Morven Kitchen Garden is UVA’s project in sustainable agriculture, and it’s a really cool place to spend a nice Friday afternoon! This trip is beginner-friendly, and the volunteer work is mostly small manual labor tasks, like harvesting produce, weeding, etc. Be sure to bring water/snacks and clothes you …
Helllooo trashy people! Are you trashy? Do you love singlehandedly saving the environment? Or, even using two hands to save the environment – by picking up trash! If so, join our trashy adventure where we wander around the hill of the O collecting trash from the earth of the mother. Plan: 10:00am – meet at corner of Echols dorm 10:05am …
HEY Y’ALL! Are you a good person? (Or trying to be) Me, Jackie, and Skylar will be doing a service trip to assist homeowners in Watauga County, NC affected by Hurricane Helene and will help with tree work, debris cleanup, roof tarping, and mud outs. We will be volunteering through the Samaritans Purse hurricane response project so keep in mind …
Volunteer at Morven Farm, UVA’s organic and sustainable farm! Bring clothes that can get dirty and bring water 🙂 If you are added to this trip, please make sure to sign up at this link for the Saturday, September 28th day from 10:30AM-12:30PM, so that they know how many volunteers to expect! Sign up link: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/morven-kitchen-garden-85892970293 Itinerary: 10:00AM- Pickup at …
Hello people who love our Ohill trails! This sunday, the Charlottesville Area Mountain Biking Club has asked for help with some trail maintenance on the lovely Ohill trails! I’m on exec for Epsilon Eta, which is UVA’s professional environmental science fraternity (plug– you should join if you are interested in even more environmental-focused professional/volunteer opportunities on grounds! rush is happening …
I don’t know about you, but this beautiful weather has me itching to put my hands in dirt and touch some plants! Morven Kitchen Garden is UVA’s project in sustainable agriculture, and it’s a really cool place to spend a warm Friday afternoon. This trip is beginner-friendly, and the volunteer work is mostly small manual labor tasks, like harvesting produce, …
So this fall I’m working to help plant some apple trees and start a garden for Gentle Acres Animal Haven, a farm animal sanctuary: https://www.gentleacresanimalhaven.org/ The goal is to help them become more self sufficient and provide the animals with a more diverse diet. This Sunday I want to get some stuff in the ground for a fall test run. …
My FIRST EVER ODC trip was a trail service trip led by Grace Gray. It’s quite simply in my Outdoors Club blood to work on the trails. We, along with other humans and animals, use trails all the dang time so we have a responsibility to give back to the dirt we walk on. This Friday we’ll be doing trail …
Owen and I missed Morven this summer and can’t wait to get our hands dirty and touch some plants! Morven Kitchen Garden is UVA’s project in sustainable agriculture, and it’s a really cool place to spend a warm Friday afternoon. This trip is beginner-friendly, and the volunteer work is mostly small manual labor tasks, like harvesting produce, weeding, etc. Be …
Trail magic! Trail magic! Trail magic! BY THIS TRIP I WILL BE A UVA GRADUATE … so COME CELEBRATE by giving out yummy food to the Appalachian Trail hiking “bubble” “Trail magic” generally refers to unexpected acts of kindness/support towards hikers, but often it’s in the form of food. We plan on bringing some fresh fruit and other food. The …
(I can’t fix the formatting for some reason so for a prettier trip description check out this doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bC_fIwu9DgcJPGstAsGOugAxO9xrWd9z0XNXjJ_vETQ/edit?usp=sharing) Hello my friend If you are interested in experiencing intentional living communities but while living your best self-sufficient solar-punk life, you should join us for a day trip to Living Energy Farm! LEF is yet another intentional community in Louisa County …
Hey everyone! Join Cat and Cam as we help plant a mini forest on Grounds!! This is a volunteer event organized by Forest Patches at UVA to plant mini forests on grounds as part of UVA’s broader decarbonization initiatives. We’ll plant trees a little up the road from Hereford’s student garden. There will also be BAGELS (yum we know)!! They’ll …
It’s been a looong week and it’s only Tuesday, so I want to go put my hands in some dirt this weekend and I hope you’ll join me! We’ll be headed to volunteer at Morven, UVA’s sustainable garden. We’ll show up, do some work in the garden, and maybe even get to take home a bit of fresh produce! Last …
Is your tent in need of repair? Were you recently on a megatrip where your Club tent seemed less than storm-ready? Come learn how to repair, clean, and maintain tents! We will be working to repair club tents that were damaged while on Moab (or are just in need of a little TLC). This is a great opportunity to give …
Hi! Come fix kids’ bikes with me this Wednesday! It will be awesome and then afterward we can get food roughly equivalent to 7 dollars per person. The plan: Meet at shrack at 2pm Bike over to hearthwood apts and fix bikes for an hour and a half or so Get a late lunch/early dinner nearby Bike home! Also! you …
If you weren’t able to sign up for this trip last weekend, you’re in luck because it got rained out! Soooo we’re going to Morven on Friday (but fr this time) to get our hands dirty and touch some plants!! Morven Kitchen Garden is UVA’s wonderful project in sustainable agriculture and is a wonderful place to spend a Saturday morning …
HEY So we all got shreddy and dirty at Moab. We are now clean humans 🙁 but the ropes are still dirty and shredded! Come help with climbing gear maintenance at the Shred Shack this Sunday afternoon. LETS GET THESE READY FOR THE SPRGGGGEEEE RATS! We will check all the ropes and begin cleaning them/prep them for chopping. Please wear …
wake up babe, new Morven volunteering trip just dropped!! now that spring has sprung, i have been YEARNING to do some gardening. if you want to welcome the warmer weather by digging in some dirt and cultivating plants, then this trip is for you! come join me this friday afternoon and we will do some beginner-friendly farm work (and maybe …
First of all, if you didn’t look too closely at the trip times… you really, really should (Also the fact that this is technically during Spring Break). I was like “hm I should volunteer at some ultras, that’d be fun,” so I emailed the race organizers being like “u need help?” and before I knew it, I was assigned to …
In case you didn’t get to meet odc’s blue-blazed section of the Brown Rocky Mountain trail back in December, you’re in luck because we’re going back to do some maintenance this Saturday!! This will be our second trip out to the section, and we’ll be joined by two experienced trail maintainers who will teach us more about pruning, waterbar clearing, …
Yo yo what up my fellow bikers, I’ve been wanting to volunteer at CCB for a long ass time, mainly because I don’t have enough to do and academic clubs are boring, but also because they are an awesome organization that empowers people and is actively making Charlottesville and the world a better place. We’ll be learning the basics of …
With the abnormally warm weather on Friday, I wanted to get my hands dirty and touch some plants!! Morven Kitchen Garden is UVA’s wonderful project in sustainable agriculture. Every time I volunteer here I have such an amazing time. We’ll show up, work in the garden, and (hopefully) get to take home a bit of fresh produce! This trip is …
We are ALL avid trail users here. We hike, bike, climb, run, bird, forage, explore, connect, etc, etc. You get the point – we use trails a LOT. In all our time on the trails, have you ever stopped to think about who keeps these in such great shape for us to safely enjoy our adventures??? Well now the answer …
After a long week of only touching the cold, metallic keys of our computers, Ella and I plan to get our hands dirty and touch some plants!! Morven Kitchen Garden is UVA’s wonderful project in sustainable agriculture. We volunteered here last year and had such an amazing time. We’ll show up, work in the garden, and get to take home …
Have YOU enjoyed using the beautiful land in good ole Virginia? Do you also want to learn how to better respect and acknowledge the land? Then join us on Dec 2nd for a service trip to the Monacan Nation Museum to learn about the land that we have been using. We will take a tour of the Monacan Nation Museum …
Do you want to break free from your mainstream, high-stress lifestyle and embark on a journey into a world where nature and intentional community living collide? Do you really love hammocks and Ohill tofu? Perfect because we’re going to Twin Oaks!!! Twin Oaks is an intentional community in Louisa, VA with around 85 members (woahhh) who all hold the values of …
HI Do you ever walk through Charlottesville and wonder, “why??? why has my city forsaken me???? why am I forced to persistently cross busy roads, full of metal death boxes on wheels?? is this what society has come to???? is there a way out of this hellscape???” Good. bc me and patrick do too. We decided, maybe we shouldn’t just …
This is a great opportunity to volunteer and plant a mini forest by Scott Stadium! This is through another group so we are just going to get there and then help them plant according to whatever they have planned. – Meet at entrance to scott stadium parking garage at 12PM – Plant until 3 and leave Scott Stadium a more …
Morven Kitchen Garden is UVA’s project in sustainable agriculture, and it’s a really cool place to spend a warm Friday afternoon! This trip is beginner-friendly, and the volunteer work is mostly small manual labor tasks, like harvesting produce, weeding, etc. Be sure to bring water/snacks and clothes you feel comfortable gardening and getting dirty in. The plan: 2:45 pm – …
After a long week of only touching the cold, metallic keys of our computers, Emi and I plan to get our hands dirty and touch some plants!! Morven Kitchen Garden is UVA’s wonderful project in sustainable agriculture. We volunteered here last year and had such an amazing time. We’ll show up, work in the garden, and get to take home …
Helloooo amigos!!! As this equinox descends upon us this Satur, Cville as a whole is uniting in our annual trail celebratin, bike galoshing, run hikin, LOOP DeVILLE!!! For those of you who haven’t heard, Loop DeVille is a town-wide celebration of our lovely Rivanna Trail, who embraces Charlottesville in her 24-mile-long arms circumscribing the city!!! Loop DeVille is a free …
Hellooo fellow beings of Shred!!! Much like a forest ecosystem, the communities of us humans here in Charlottesville are oft bustling and abound with uniqueness. Cam and I often find ourselves enamored — tickled, even — by the wonders of both plant and human life around us, and we would like to offer our friendship to all of it…SO, what …
Hello to all you lovely ODC members! Are you passionate about service, sustainability, or DEI (diversity, equity, & inclusivity) within the outdoors? Do you want to get more involved with the club? Well, we have news for you! Much like a natural ecosystem, we believe that many parts of ODC are interwoven. We are merging our DEI / service-sustainability committee …
Come hang out with Mitch and Ed as we work to repair some of our most heavily used and regularly bruised gear items. No experience needed. We will put you to work! Some things we might get up to: Replacing elastic in our poor MSR hubba hubbas Repairing holes in tent bodies with seam seal or patches cleaning tent footprints …
Hello lovelies! Come join me this Sunday morning for a wonderful time gardening at Visible Records. It’s a space for art, community organizing, localized social justice and of course the gardens! Visible Records has two gardens: one, Common Field, produces crops for the local Visions of Liberation Free Store, while their other plot, Solitary Gardens, is an offshoot of a …
SOO you’re an incredibly awesome Tripleader and you’re super comfortable all the time in the outdoors. You know how to pack, to predict the weather, to avoid catastrophes and maybe even how to splint a leg or perform CPR. But do you know what to do when the danger/injury isn’t physically present? Do you want to learn some tried and …
During this lovely month of Earth appreciation UVA’s Office of Sustainability has hosted a ton of events embracing environmental stewardship & fun– one of which is the kayak cleanup! This event gives back to Ragged, a place that has provided ODC with SO many magical adventures. People who have registered for the kayak cleanup will pick up trash, learn a …