Restore Corps
Restoring a Landscape through Education
Restore Corps is Green Cambridge’s newest paid youth internship, and is being piloted in Fall 2026-Spring 2027! If you are a Cambridge high school student interested in participating, please click here to learn more.
Prototyped during the Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program as River Restore, Restore Corps will train and educate Cambridge teens in urban ecological restoration including invasive plant removal and native plant re-establishment in the Alewife Brook Reservation.
Using the Alewife Brook Reservation as an outdoor classroom, this program will connect youth aged 16-18 to this 136 acre shared landscape.
Seasonal cohorts will focus on removing invasive species, planting natives, mapping and design, and implementing land-based ecological restoration. Our guiding documents are the Alewife Master Plan and the Alewife District Community Health Action Plan we’ve developed over three years in partnership with the National Park Service, along with our local, state, and national partners.
Are you a Cambridge high school student aged 16-18 interested in Restore Corps? Apply to join the paid Restore Corps pilot program today!
Join Restore Corps Pilot Program
For the 2026-2027 academic year, Green Cambridge is looking for 5 Cambridge high school students to participate in the paid Restore Corps Pilot Program. Across 6 Thursdays in both the Fall and Spring, participants will learn about urban ecological restoration through a holistic lens and hands-on approach using the Alewife Brook Reservation as an outdoor classroom. View the full internship description here.
The program:
Explore topics in urban ecological restoration, environmental justice, local ecology, invasive plant management, and nature-based solutions to climate change and other human-caused environmental issues
Based fully outdoors at the Alewife Brook Reservation in North Cambridge, across from Alewife Station.
Remove invasive plant species and restore native species in the Alewife Brook Reservation using manual and hand tools (no experience required!)
Present on the Restore Corps Pilot Program experience at the Green Cambridge youth summit in Spring 2027.
Make $20.32/hr!
What we’re looking for:
Age 16-18, attending high school in Cambridge
Passionate and curious about either environmental science, environmental justice, land stewardship, conservation, local ecology, hands-on restoration work, environmental education, or nature-based solutions
Open to providing feedback to help design programming, or interest in co-creating Restore Corps program alongside Green Cambridge staff
Able and willing to do physical outdoor work (such as shoveling, digging, using and carrying tools, manual hand removal of plants) and able to carry up to 25lbs.
Available to meet at the Alewife Brook Reservation at the listed dates/times (click + on right hand panel to view).
Applications to join the pilot program are open until September 24th! Please reach out to restorecorps@greencambridge.org with any questions.
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Fall 2026
Thursday, October 1st, 3:45-5:45pm
Thursday, October 8th, 3:45-5:45pm
Thursday, October 15th, 3:45-5:45pm
Thursday, October 22nd, 3:45-5:45pm
Thursday, October 29th, 3:45-5:45pm
Thursday, November 5th, 3:45-5:45pm
Spring 2027
Thursday, April 1st, 3:45-5:45pm
Thursday, April 8th, 3:45-5:45pm
Thursday, April 15th, 3:45-5:45pm
Thursday, April 29th, 3:45-5:45pm
Thursday, May 6th, 3:45-5:45pm
Saturday, May 8th, 9am-2pm (Green Cambridge Youth Summit)
Thursday, May 13th, 3:45-5:45pm
