Restore the compacted street tree pits on an Ironbound block.

The Ironbound has one of Newark's thinnest tree canopies exactly where diesel exhaust is heaviest, and the trees it does have sit in compacted, trash-filled pits that shed water instead of soaking it in. Restored pits keep existing trees alive and cool the block they shade.

Where

Street tree pits, Ferry Street corridor blocks, Ironbound, Newark, NJ 07105 · Open the map

Pay

$176 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 photo per pit plus a pit count

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

Level

entry

Open until

2026-10-16

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. Remove trash and weeds from each assigned tree pit by hand with gloves.
2. Loosen the top few inches of compacted soil with a hand cultivator, keeping clear of roots.
3. Top-dress with compost and two to three inches of mulch, kept off the trunk flare.
4. Edge the pit border so mulch stays in and water is held.
5. Photograph each pit before and after with GPS and date.

What counts as done

• Before photo of each compacted pit with GPS and date
• After photo of the same pit mulched and edged
• Count of pits restored

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.