An organization of environmental volunteers inspiring and empowering action for a better future Founded in 2008 by Eric J.
MEVO is a 501(c)(3) environmental not for profit whose missions is, "To be the model for the creation of scalable ecological solutions that inspires and empowers people to take action for a better future." Fuchs-Stengel out of Mahwah High School, we focus on local environmental projects that invite in our community members to participate in hands on action and through volunteer events. Our project
s included our Fresh Roots Farming Program, Stag Hill Trash Cleanup Program, Internship Program, Volunteer Program, and more. As an organization founded by young people, we strive to keep the leadership and focus on MEVO in the hands of young individuals. Our staff remains in their 20s and we strive to provide educational, volunteer, and internship opportunities to students K-College as our organizational focus. However, people of all ages and capabilities are more than welcomed into our programs. We believe that stewarding our community is an effort that requires to participation of everyone! To join our efforts, learn more about our programs, find out how to purchase our organically grown produce, or to donate, visit our website at https://www.mevo.org/ and see what we are up to on facebook and instagram .
11/07/2024
We’re excited to open pre-orders for our annual Herbal Cosmetics Holiday sale:
The is year we are offering:
💤 Sleep well magnesium sleep cream created with chamomile, rose, mugwort, and lavender infused oil.
🌿 Healing Salve for burns, cuts, bruises, and scrapes
*main photo is from last year, we are not offering the face serum this season.
11/04/2024
This past Saturday, executive director and herbalist-in-training Violet Reed led the Immune Boosters Workshop, a plant-based medicine-making workshop in which we made Fire Cider, Elderberry Syrup, and immune-support tea to keep us warm and healthy through the winter 🍂
If you missed this workshop, our Fire Cider and Elderberry Syrup are also for sale on our website!
10/24/2024
The season is winding down but our fields are still full! After we end our market and farm share season, we need your help emptying out our fields to prepare them for winter!
Sign up for our U-Harvest on 11/17 to harvest lots of fall veggies that will keep in your fridge for up to a month! Sign up via the link in our bio.
We expect to have:
* Tatsoi
* Arugula
* Spinach
* Salad Mix (salanova lettuces)
* Kale (from Lovewell Farm so will be pre-harvested)
* Swiss Chard (may have)
* Parsley
* Cilantro and Dill
* Baby Radishes and Turnips
* Baby Kohlrabi and Kohlrabi Greens
* Broccolini Greens
* Sage (limited to one bunch per customer)
* Oregano ( limited to one bunch per customer)
* Tulsi (harvested to protect from the frost and dried)
* Carrots
* TBD: Romaine, Bok Choy, Winter Squashes, and Garlic
10/22/2024
Did you know? We’re selling fire cider and elderberry syrup to offer you immune boosting tonics for the fall and winter season! You can head to the link in our bio to purchase.
🔥Fire cider is a folk remedy that combines spicy, pungent, warming, sour, and sweet elements to help stimulate your immune system, bring warmth to your body, and ward off sickness. Preventively, a tablespoon of fire cider is taken once per day. Our recipe includes, apple cider vinegar with garlic, horseradish, hot peppers, ginger, a citrus, calendula. and Mediterranean herbs.
🫐 Elderberry Syrup is a immune boosting and antiviral syrup made from elderberries, native berries to our region packed full of antioxidants along with other goodies! Elderberry is great to take a tablespoon at a time when you feel sickness coming, during sickness, or as a preventative measure. It also tastes really good!
**These are not medical statements
10/15/2024
Last week we visited and learned from their Specialty Gardens Coordinator Katie all about the intricate and artful world of seed saving. We even got to start the process of saving seeds for delicata squash!
In other news! We are 20% funded for our fall fundraiser! We are striving to reach our full goal of $15000 by early November! Can you help? Donations can be made via our website Mevo.org, venmo or PayPal admin .org. Thank you for supporting us! 🌱🌈
10/09/2024
Thanks to the generosity of 21 donors we are 13% funded for our fall fundraiser! 🥳🎉
Here, Violet is taking a group of kids from around the farm on a sensory farm tour. Your funding helps us to provide free or subsidized trips to our farm for awesome groups like this one! Can you help us get to 20% today?
10/07/2024
Today, we are officially kicking off our Fall Fundraiser and we are hoping to raise $15k!
This year, the funds we raise will go towards transitioning in new farm staff as our Farm Manager Jess finishes her last season with MEVO. Our Field Manager Jacob replaces her and we will train a new staff member to take Jacob’s position.
Can you spare a few dollars to help our efforts? Transitions are always tricky and cost demanding times for not for profits so any funds would be so appreciated! To sweeten the deal, every donation is considered an entry to weekly raffle prices we will be announcing.
You can donate via our fundraiser on Facebook, on our website (https://www.mevo.org/donate) or our Venmo . Thank you!
09/11/2024
Yeehaw 🤠 Executive Director Violet and Educator Lauren are currently in Omaha Nebraska at the Farm to School Grantee gathering to learn and collaborate as they get ready to implement MEVO’s new Farm to School Grant! With this grant we’ll be closely partnering with the Mahwah School district to curate their school gardens, run a highschool internship, welcome all of their 3rd grade to our Fresh Roots Farm and more!
08/21/2024
Our Farm Feast is just 4 days away and we have FIVE tickets left! Come join us for a farm to table feast on August 24th at our Fresh Roots Farm! Tickets can be purchased at this link: https://www.mevo.org/shop/p/farm-feast-2024
08/14/2024
We have 10 tickets left for our Farm Feast on August 24th at our Fresh Roots Farm! Could one of those tickets be for you? Take a sneak peak our last year’s event here! Link for tickets below.
This short documentary showcases the impact of youth farming and invites you along for their annual Farm Feast Gala event, hosted by MEVO.
08/07/2024
We are excited to release or 2024 Farm Feast menu crafted by the talented mind of ! Experience this menu by attending our Feast on August 24th. Tickets can be purchase via the link here or in our bio! https://www.mevo.org/shop/p/farm-feast-2024
07/22/2024
Meet Trail Crew member Tamir (he/him)! Tamir is studying Environmental Science in college and joined MEVO to experience ecology and botany in the field. His favorite tool is a 12 pound sledge and his favorite crop is radishes ⚒️
07/18/2024
We are thrilled and honored to announce that we have been awarded an implementation grant through the USDA Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program👩🌾➡️🏫
Over the course of two years, this grant will allow us to expand our educational programming efforts with the Mahwah School district through on farm field trips for elementary school students, the revitalization of the school gardens, a high school summer internship, and more! 🌶️🥕🥬🥦🥒🍆🌽🍅
07/16/2024
To say we had a blast on our annual internship trip is an understatement! We spent six days on what we call a “workcation.” From working in the sugarbush and camping in a cabin 2 miles into the woods at to harvesting, weeding, helping with animal chores and eating great food at we are SO grateful for the wonderful people who led us through work projects, offered us shelter and food, and imparted so much knowledge! Along the way we swam in streams, lakes, and notably Lake Champlain, had bonfires, and played lots of games!
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POV you applied and got accepted to one of our spring or summer internships! 👩🌾⚒️🥦🥕🥬☀️🌼
Applications are OPEN for both spring and summer crews. For each season we have multiple tracks available with focuses on farm work, trail building, greenhouse management, farm to school education, and more.
To apply, visit our link in bio!
Our work takes a village 🧑🌾👩🌾👨🌾!
We wouldn’t be where we are without our amazing volunteers. Here is a group from @sharpbusiness helping us backfill swales with woodchips! These woodchips help to store excess water from large rain events to hold on to for drier times. It’s not only a water storage tool but acts as flood mitigation!
Be part of our village! We are 5% funded for our fall fundraiser. You can donate on our website mevo.org, by Venmo and PayPal @mevo.org, or via our Facebook Fundaiser. 🌱
When should I plant my seedlings outside? When is the last frost? Why are my kale leaves yellowing? Why are my peppers rotting on the plant? What amendments should I offer to my plants? 🤨❓❓
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If you have these questions, then you should attend our “Happy Plant Starts Workshop” 🤠🌱
On May 4th at our Fresh Roots Farm! Attendance is $20. You can click on this link or head on over to the link in our bio to register https://www.mevo.org/shop/p/happy-plant-starts
We need some volunteers ahead of our normal volunteer season! Are you around and down to come out to the Fresh Roots Farm on 2/29? We need some help getting our greenhouse ready to receive our first seedlings for the season! This will include woodchipping around the outside of the greenhouse to insulate it, leveling our seeding tables, and more.
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This volunteer date and all of our volunteer dates and events can be found here: https://www.mevo.org/volunteerevents
Welcome to our page! We are an environmental not-for-profit ran primarily by youth, but supported by individuals of all ages. Our mission is to be the model for the creation of scalable ecological solutions that inspires and empowers people to take action for a better future.
The focus of our organization is to educate and empower the most current generations on the importance of sustainability in our lives and local communities. We teach at earth fairs, schools, summer camps, and on the farm about a myriad of environmental topics ranging from pollution to bees. Although we focus primarily on grade school through college age students, we welcome the opportunity to provide educational programming to groups of all types. Additionally, we can provide merit badges for both girl and boy scout groups and welcome Eagle scouts and Gold award recipients and their project ideas to our farm
Our primary program is our two-acre Fresh Roots Farm at Campgaw Mountain County Reservation in Mahwah, New Jersey, and our newest farm is Lovewell farm, a one-acre plot situated in a suburban backyard. Our farms are a hub of energy welcoming thousands of volunteers each year who have a desire to give back to the community and get their hands dirty. We run open volunteer days 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Tuesday and Sunday at the farm. We also welcome school field trips, corporate volunteer days , and service groups to come out on a day that best suits. To arrange a field trip or service day contact [email protected].
In total MEVO has three acres of farmland that we manage and grow thousands of pounds of clean, nutritious, and sustainable fruits and vegetables every year. You can buy our food and support our farm by purchasing a share of our Community Supported Agriculture program (http://mevoearth.org/csa/), and next season we will have a weekly farm stand at our Fresh Roots Farm.
In addition to volunteers, a small army of seasonal interns in the spring, summer, and staff manage the day to day operations of MEVO both on the farm and off. Our team is exploring some of the most innovative sustainable farming practices available through using permaculture, biodynamic, and permaculture techniques. From building a greenhouse constructed out of 80% recycled materials to laying out our raised beds to most efficiently use rain to irrigate our crops we strive every season to put new sustainable practices in use.
One of our inaugural programs has been the remediation of Stag Hill through organizing trash clean-ups since MEVO's first volunteer event in 2008. To date, we have carried out over 85 trash clean-ups and removed well over 500,000lbs of waste from the forests of Stag Hill in Mahwah, New Jersey. This massive number includes over 5,000 tires, paint, cars, tar shingles, insulation, and much more. We organize many trash clean-ups a year and they are all published on our page and website.
An organization of environmental volunteers inspiring and empowering action for a better future Founded in 2008 by Eric J.
