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Clean streets and rivers for Cardiff: restoring the Pioneer hillside
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Pioneer hillside needs $2,400 for saplings and equipment.
🇬🇧 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom2,140 views
The Pioneer hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 89 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 88 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the local forestry office, including native species selected by a local botanist.
The area floods more each year, and fish have returned for the first time in a decade after our first cleanup. Restoring it will protect homes and bring back shade.
All the labor is volunteered. We just need materials.
We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted.
Where the $2,400 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,250
• Tools and protective gear: $410
• Waste removal and skip hire: $490
• Signage and educational materials: $250
Thanks for being kind about this.
- Todd
Updates from Todd
We're at 61% thanks to 42 of you. we've started the first stage. More news soon.
Quick update: $760 raised so far (32%). we've started the first stage. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
Update from Cardiff: we've started the first stage. We're at 19% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
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best of luck, Todd. Hope this works out for you. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money. Thinking of Cardiff.
Wishing you the best, Todd. Great idea, hope you get there. Wish I lived closer to Palermo so I could bring a meal. Take care
Hang in there. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Thinking of Cardiff
Thinking of you, Todd. Hope you get there
is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Todd
Everything on the list is an amount I've been quoted or invoiced. native saplings and stakes comes first ($1,250) and I'll update the page as each thing gets paid. It helps to be asked.
gave what I could, wish it was more. After 8 years in public service I know how hard it is to ask for anything. God bless
Wishing you peace. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too. God bless
Sending love, Todd. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. I'm in engineering myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you
You're not alone, Todd. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double. Greetings from Nashik.
Thinking of you and your family. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Greetings from Los Angeles
More neighborhoods should do this. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. Thinking of Cardiff
This could happen to any of us. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double. Greetings from Leeds.
Thinking of you, Todd. This could happen to any of us. My husband and I read this together