Next Milestone • 1,000 Gardens
Phase 1: Rewild existing street space
Convert tree beds, bare medians, and more into wildflower gardens.
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to rewild NYC
Claim one street tree, get native seeds, and weave nature back into your daily life.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. — Claude Monet 🌱Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years. — Unknown 🌱To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. — Audrey Hepburn 🌱I have not seen a serious tree. — Osho 🌱If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. — Marcus Tullius Cicero 🌱The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul. — Alfred Austin 🌱A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all, it teaches entire trust. — Gertrude Jekyll 🌱Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas. — Elizabeth Murray 🌱The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. — Gertrude Jekyll 🌱In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. — Margaret Atwood 🌱
"A delight."
Matt S.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
One tiny garden at a time
Hey everyone,
I'm Mayank, CEO here at Mulch, and we're tackling a simple problem of city life.
Here at home, our connection to nature is buried underneath concrete and commutes.
Parks are far-off, community gardens are crusty, and concrete covers everything.
It doesn't make any sense.
Feeling close to the natural environment feels good. We know this. We go to great lengths to get out of the city — to hikes, beaches, national parks — just to feel a little more calm, lighthearted, and connected.
So why settle for so much less here at home?
New York has 50 Central Parks worth of unused space. It's on top of rooftops, untraversed sidewalks, empty balconies, and highway medians — space that's hidden in plain sight.
Our plan?
Rewild it all — one tiny garden at a time.
To start, we're sponsoring 1,500 New Yorkers on a mission to plant wildflower seeds in tree beds around the city.
Claim one street tree below, and we'll send you native seeds to plant there, completely free.
It's not much, but it's a start — and maybe that's more than enough.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
— Margaret Mead
Corny but true. Let's get after it.
Our Roadmap
Street trees are just the start...
Launching Spring 2026
Phase 2: Rewild balconies, rooftops, and walls
Spur on apartment building community gardens, balcony gardening clubs, and living walls.
Launching Spring 2027
Phase 3: Rewild new space through depaving
Pursue full-on structural work like green roofs and new street trees.