OUR CURRENT PROJECTS
Charity Bake Sales
The event that started it all. Some weekends you can find Millions Of Butterflies outside of Kontiki on downtown Main St. of New Paltz, NY selling fresh baked goods and the occasional poem written for you on our typewriters.
These Charity Bake Sales are our main source of income. All of our proceeds go towards our current projects as well as other mutual aid causes ranging from local to international.
Back 2 School
Care Packages
In the Winter of 2020 Millions Of Butterflies launched their first direct action initiative. We created 100 Back 2 School Care Packages aimed for families of children in elementary to high school in need of supplementary resources of school supplies or holiday gifts.
Each Care Package included 1 large sketchbook, 2 spiral bound notebooks, 1 composition book, a 5 pack of erasers, a ruler, a pack of colored pencils and paint brushes as well as a pair of gloves, some stickers, a comically large pen and a bag of cool rocks.
We were not able to complete this project in 2021 as we were focusing on our second direct action initiative but we are hoping to continue this project come 2022.
The New Paltz
Free Food Fridge
In Spring of 2021 we started our second direct action initiative, the establishment of a Free Food Fridge in the heart of New Paltz.
In the following November we were able to break ground on the project and begin to build the structure that will soon house the fridge. Since Christmas 2021 the Fridge has been up and running. You can visit the structure yourself at 25 Plattekill Ave. New Paltz, NY.
The Chrysalis Kitchen
Formerly known as New Paltz Food Not Bombs, join the crew of Millions Of Butterflies every other Wednesday as we cook free meals to distribute amongst the folks in our community.
What’s Next?
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Over the Spring in to Summer of 2022 we are hoping to publish the first issue of our zine titled The Butterfly Times. Our goal is to promote local artists and artisans and share important information on local resources.
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Located at 25 Plattekill Avenue in downtown New Paltz right next to the Free Food Fridge, the Pollinator Garden houses multiple indigenous plants that support our local pollinators. Our plan is to extend it to surround the Free Food Fridge and bring it to multiple different locations around town in the coming Spring of 2022.
This is to create accessible resources to safe, edible plants and herbs for both our pollinators and our people. As well as expand the knowledge of these indigenous plants to our surrounding community by providing information of their growth and uses in pamphlets that will be located within the Free Food Fridge.