Volunteer Time

Each gardener is obligated to volunteer three hours of time for their first plot and one extra hour for each additional plot. Often this time can be earned by attending both or one of our Community Garden Work Days which will occur in April and November. For folks who can't attend Work Days, there will be other opportunities to earn time toward meeting the volunteer time obligation. The Advisory Committee will communicate to gardeners tasks that need to be worked on which will count as time earned toward a gardener's obligated volunteer time. Unfortunately, time tending to or watering another gardener's plot doesn't count as volunteer time.

Below are tasks that can be worked on. These tasks can be worked on from now until the end of the season. There’s no need in advance to let us know which task you plan to work on. If you plan on performing a task, and it’s already been completed when you arrive at the Garden, choose another task to work on. If you work on a task, please email us within a day or two of performing the task with information about the task you worked on and for how long so that our records can be updated. We keep a record of your earned volunteer time, but we encourage each gardener to keep track of their time as well.

Volunteer tasks:

Pull weeds from the center gravel path.

Inspect the fence to find places where the lower and upper fences have separated. Those points of separation will need to be zip tied together. Zip ties can be found on a shelf in the rear of the corn crib.

Spread wood chips on Garden paths (other than the paths surrounding your plot) where wood chips have washed away or the layer of wood chips has become thin.

Using your own weed whacker or shears in the corn crib, trim the entire outside perimeter of the Garden fence. The outside of the fence opposite the main gate from plot 21/22 up to 125/126 tends to need more attention than other sections of the fence.

Using a rake from the corn crib, rake together leaves that have accumulated at the base of the perimeter of the fence. Collected leaves can be placed in the compost piles at the Garden.

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