West Ward Community Initiative

Community Day at Easton Cemetery
2022-09-17 | Easton Cemetery, 401 N. 7th street, Easton, PA, 18042, United States

West Ward Market
2022-09-21 15:00 - 19:00, 2022-09-28 15:00 - 19:00 UTC | 12th & Northampton Street, Easton, PA, 18042, United States
Shop fresh local and international produce and meals, grab a bite to eat, and join your neighbors for music, activities, and a celebration of community at our new outdoor street market.
Compre alimentos y productos frescos locales e internacionales, coma algo y únase a sus vecinos para disfrutar de música, actividades y una celebración de comunidad en nuestro nuevo mercado callejero al aire libre.
(SNAP/EBT accepted)
A new night for Kellyn Mobile Market.

Garlic Planting & Potluck
2022-10-06 16:30 - 19:00 | Lower Hackett Community Garden, 1901 Wood Avenue, Easton, PA, 18042, United States
Join us for some s’mores, games, and a potluck with our favorite volunteers and community gardeners. Open to all friends of the gardens! We’ll also plant the 2023 garlic crop which will be harvested for local pantries. Come get your hands dirty volunteering and stay to enjoy an evening at Lower Hackett Community Garden.
Thursday, October 6th from 4:30 pm – dark.
Lower Hackett Community Garden (near Fisk field).

Final Community Meeting – November 16, 2022 6-7:30 p.m.
2022-11-16 08:00 - 17:00 | PA
West Ward CM 4 West Ward CM 4 Spanish

Choice Neighborhood Community Meeting, November 16 2022, Paxinosa Elementary
2022-11-16 18:00 - 19:30 | PA

“Plant one on me” microgreens workshop
2023-02-14 17:00 - 19:00 | Easton Public Market, 325 Northampton Street, Easton, PA, 18042, United States
Invite your valentine, gal-entine, or just your dang self to a free intro to microgreens workshop on Tuesday, Feb. 14th at Easton Public Market. Ever wonder how to grow a tiny garden indoors? Learn how to sprout mini basil, amaranth, and more to add to salads and all sorts of dishes. 12 spots available for a hands-on lesson from 6:00 – 6:45 pm, signup required: you’ll take a mini microgreens kit home as well! Signup here.
Select how many will be joining and sign up for a spot for each. If you can no longer attend, you can cancel your spot on the signupgenius page, or contact us at gardens@eastonpartnership.org. Spots all filled? Stop by anytime between 5:00 – 7:00 pm at our demo table for a free sample and quick lesson on growing a fun & easy snack at home.

Seed Swap
2023-02-26 10:00 - 12:00 | Easton Public Market, 325 Northampton Street, Easton, PA, 18042, United States
Join Easton Garden Works and Easton Urban Farm for our annual Seed Swap. Pick up free mini seed packets and bring your own packs to swap with other gardeners. We’ll have a “Plant Therapist” table to ask seasoned growers about gardening trauma, and even more activity booths from Buy Fresh Buy Local, Easton Farmers’ Market, and more. It’s a welcoming crowd of Easton-y plant lovers, all experience levels welcomed.
As part of our “The More You Grow” workshop series, join us at 10:30 and 11:30 for seed starting demonstrations where you’ll take home your own upcycled seed tray and instructions.

Garden Party
2023-10-11 17:00 - 20:30 | Lower Hackett Community Garden, 1901 Wood Avenue, Easton, PA, 18042, United States
Volunteers, community gardeners, and all friends of Easton Garden Works are invited to our annual fall garden gathering.
Wednesday, Oct. 11th at Lower Hackett Community Garden (1900 Wood Ave.) from 5:00 pm – dark. Rain date: Thursday, Oct. 12th
S’mores, music, mingling, and our annual tradition of planting garlic together. Celebrate the season with us. If you’re able to bring snacks and/or your own reusable bottles and cutlery, it is much appreciated!

Seed Swap
2024-02-25 10:00 - 12:00 | Easton Public Market, 325 Northampton Street, Easton, PA, 18042, United States
Calling all gardeners: seasoned or new to the scene Our annual Seed Swap will be held on Sunday, Feb. 25th from 10:00 am to noon with Easton Urban Farm at Easton Public Market Join us to leaf through thousands of free mini seed packets ~ many varieties of veggies, flowers, & herbs to choose from. Activity tables from partnering organizations like Easton Urban Farm, Buy Fresh Buy Local and Easton Farmers’ Market, a seed starting demo and freebies will be here too.

Over the past year, many Easton gardeners have contributed to the Seed Library from their own gardens. It’s frickin’ cool to have a collective resource sharing community based around growing your own food. Those seeds will be featured at the Seed Swap too. If you have seed packets (even half used or less) or your own seeds saved from your gardens, bring them along to swap.

Love Your City, Love Your Street – Clean-Up and Pizza Social
2025-09-25 09:30 - 13:00 | 12th & Northampton Street, Easton, PA, 18042, United States
Come meet your neighbors and care for our ward in a street clean-up this coming weekend!
Pick up supplies from us next to Paxinosa, form teams with other caring locals/families, and make the West Ward a better place to live!
Then come back to the school at noon for local pizza and a relaxing place to meet your community.
Sign-up here

EAC Clean-Up and Sustainability Market
2025-10-08 15:00 - 19:00 | 12th & Northampton Street, Easton, PA, 18042, United States
In observance of the Nature Nurture Center’s Climate Action Week:
Come take part in West Ward Market activities with a twist, 25 prize boxes for the best participants! All boxes contain fun items to help your life be more eco-friendly, while also being enjoyable to own. The competition will be fierce, so bring your best sustainable mindset!
ALSO
If you missed the last street cleaning and social space to meet your neighbors, or if you just love the West Ward and meeting its people, come take part in Easton-Environmental Advisory Council’s (EAC) Clean-up! Starting at 5pm at the market and led by an intelligent and interesting group, come learn the in’s and out’s of environmental action from Easton’s best as you make our ward a cleaner, safer place to live.

West Ward Market Harvest Festival
2025-10-15 13:00 - 19:00 | 12th & Northampton Street, Easton, PA, 18042, United States
The final market day and where we plan to pull out all the stops!
Come celebrate the West Ward, our people, and all the events and efforts that have led up to this moment! As we move the ‘Love Your City, Love Your Street’ slogan past its launch activities, where we spent so much effort as a community investing into the streets where we live, we want to use this moment to love our city.
As such, we invite you to show up in costume, get some free henna, and take part in a harvest-themed paint and sip with Dr. Annie Cullen!!
