Lay a thick clean-mulch cover over bare public planting beds.

Bare dirt in Calumet-area public planting beds and tree rings kicks up dust that nobody near a former smelter wants airborne. A thick clean wood-chip cover over public beds is a simple, visible dust-and-contact barrier that also helps the plants.

Where

Public planting beds, Kennedy Avenue corridor, East Chicago, IN 46312 · Open the map

Pay

$80 proposed

This packet is not funded yet, so this figure is a proposed price and not money waiting in escrow. If a buyer funds it, approved proof settles that price onchain. If nobody funds it, approved proof earns provable credit toward the work instead of cash — recorded, and readable any time at vealth.net/labor/credit/(your wallet). You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof

Before/after photos of each covered bed

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

entry

Open until

2026-10-17

Posted by

0x034F…6c89

The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. Work only public planting beds and tree rings agreed with the parks or public-works contact.
2. Without digging or turning the soil, lay clean wood-chip mulch 3 to 4 inches deep over each bare bed.
3. Keep mulch clear of tree trunks and plant stems.
4. Rake the surface even and sweep adjacent pavement clean.
5. Photograph each covered bed before and after with GPS and date on.

What counts as done

• Before/after photo pairs per bed with GPS and date
• Photo showing mulch depth against a hand or ruler
• Clean-mulch source record
• Bed count log

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Urban Canopy. Urban canopy is the layer of leaves over a city, and it is infrastructure as surely as the pipes below the street: shade that cools a block in a heat wave, roots that drink a storm. The i-Tree protocol turns it into something you can count, tree by tree, so a city knows what it has and what it is losing. Mastery looks like a person who can read a whole street's trees at a walk. This packet is a piece of that census: a few trees observed carefully and recorded where the record counts.