You're new here 🌱
You've joined your village. A great first step is getting familiar with a few people nearby.
Try this: meet one neighbor this week.
See who's around →Good evening.
Oak Grove Village · 148 households. Here's what's worth showing up for.
Your villager pulse
A few invitations based on what you've told us and what's happening nearby. Always optional.
A small opportunity to show up
Saturday Porch Potluck is Sat, Aug 15. 14 neighbors are already going.
Bring a dish, a folding chair, or just yourself.
Join them →Your village could use something you have
Beds 4–9 need weeding and mulch before fall planting, Saturday morning.
Garden volunteers — one person saying yes is enough to start.
Offer it →Welcome someone in
2 new households joined Oak Grove Village this month.
The Osei family — Moved into 921 SE Birch three weeks ago. Two kids, a very loud dog.
Learn how to welcome a new neighbor →What's happening
All activityMealSat, Aug 15 · 5:30–8:00 pm
Saturday Porch Potluck
The Nkemdi porch, 812 SE Oak
No program, no speeches. We put tables on the sidewalk and eat together until it gets dark.
Bring: Bring a dish, a folding chair, or just yourself
14 neighbors going
ProjectSun, Aug 16 · 9:00–11:30 am
Garden Workday: Beds 4–9
8th Street Community Garden
We're rebuilding two raised beds and mulching the paths before the fall planting.
Bring: Gloves, a wheelbarrow, or two hours of weeding
9 neighbors going
GatheringTue, Aug 18 · 6:30 pm
Welcome Walk for the Osei Family
Meet at the corner of 9th & Birch
A slow loop of the neighborhood so a new household learns the shortcuts, the good tree, and a few faces.
Bring: Your name, and one place worth knowing about
6 neighbors going
Ways to participate
Small, specific, and mostly under an hour.
- Offer
Bring a dish, a folding chair, or just yourself
Saturday Porch Potluck · Sat, Aug 15 · 5:30–8:00 pm
- Offer
Gloves, a wheelbarrow, or two hours of weeding
Garden Workday: Beds 4–9 · Sun, Aug 16 · 9:00–11:30 am
- Offer
Your name, and one place worth knowing about
Welcome Walk for the Osei Family · Tue, Aug 18 · 6:30 pm
- Offer
Listening as much as talking
What Should We Do About the Alley? · Mon, Aug 24 · 7:00 pm
- Help
Looking for a stroller for two weeks
Hana Oyelaran · Aug 18 – Sep 1
- Help
Need help moving a couch Saturday
Tomás Boone · Sat, Aug 15 · 11 am
- Help
Anyone read Portuguese? Need a letter translated
Ruth Alvarez · Anytime this month
Your village could use
Your village already contains more than you realize.
Learn to Villager
Something short for this week
How to Meet a Neighbor
Connect · 4 min
How to Ask for Help Without Feeling Awkward
Communicate · 5 min
How to Handle Neighborhood Conflict
Communicate · 6 min
Your village
- People you've connected with
- 4
- Activities you've joined
- 3
- Ways you've contributed
- 3
- Things you've shared
- 2
- Lessons you've finished
- 3
How this tends to go
- 01
Discover
Notice what's happening nearby.
- 02
Learn
Pick up one small community skill.
- 03
Participate
Show up somewhere in person.
- 04
Connect
Meet one person you didn't know.
- 05
Contribute
Offer something you already have.
- 06
Reflect
Notice how it went, then go again.