Volunteer Opportunities

[Brandi Clark]

PARTNERING GARDENS/FARMS

Students - Identify yourself as a "Citizen Gardener" at all communications with the partners.

Students should enter their volunteer hours using this form.

Interested in having volunteers help in your community garden? Use this form to send us details and we'll review it and let you know when you've been added.

Green Corn Project
Contact: Meagn O'Donnell 249-3171 [e-mail]
We'll build organic vegetable gardens for families, at schools, and in community centers all over town. Help us at one or all of the Dig-In dates this season.
We also need volunteers interested in the following opportunities to ensure our success in bringing healthy, affordable to food to folks in Austin!
*Become a Dig-In Leader (see training requirements below)
*Mentor a new gardener (no experience necessary; approximately 4 hrs/month)
*Deliver compost, seeds, and starts to garden sites before the Dig-ins (owning a truck is very helpful!)
Please register for one or all of the Dig-In dates on-line at http://greencornproject.org/gc/volunteer!
* Requirements for becoming a Dig-in Leader:
1. Volunteer at a Dig-In event to help install a garden.
2. Attend a Green Corn Project workshop or training session.
3. Work as a Dig-In leader-in-training at a Dig-In with two qualified Dig-In leaders on two separate days.
4. Perform follow-up/act as a mentor at one site after the above Dig-In.

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Quilombo Community Garden Workday -
Quilombo, a community garden on the east side, is looking for help in making this season a bountiful one! Quilombo is entirely volunteer run, and works with a minimum of funds. Please join volunteers on Saturdays, to come together four hours before sunset and put energy into the garden in exchange for vegetables. Find out more at www.quilombogardens.org.
Date: ongoing Saturdays
Time: Four hours before sunset (approx. 4:00pm -8:00pm)
Location: 5606 Harold Court Austin, TX 78721 - East Austin
Contact: Julia Bonnheim ( 214-998-9449) or Megan Barbour (512-422-6327)
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Fonda San Miquel Restaurant w/ Scott Dubois
Come volunteer at the Fonda San Miguel Restaurant Garden (2330 W North Loop Blvd) and learn from garden manager, Scott Dubois. We'll be working on a wide variety of tasks including weeding, harvesting, bed preparation, planting, tomato cage building, pruning, seed saving, etc.

Workdays are typically every Tuesday 8-5 and Friday 8-12, but dates/times are flexible to accommodate volunteer demand. Volunteers should bring a water bottle and gloves+pruners if you have them.
For more information:
Scott Dubois
Bluegreen Project
512.560.3097
[e-mail]
www.bluegreenproject.com

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Johnson's Backyard Garden
Contact: Brenton Johnson, 386-5273, [e-mail]
Citizen Gardener volunteers participate in our Workshare program. Workshare members volunteer on Wednesdays or Saturdays from 8am to 12:30 or 1pm in exchange for a box of fresh produce. The Citizen Gardener participants would not have to commit to more than 10 hours of work overall, but we would ask that they volunteer for the whole 4.5 to 5 hour time period when they do come to the farm. Then, they could finish their hours in two visits and decide if they wanted to continue the Workshare program on their own afterwards.

We recommend you wear long sleeves and pants and sturdy shoes for protection. Also consider bringing a large brimmed hat, a jug of ice water and snacks. If you like you may want to also bring gloves.
Our farm is located a 9515 Hergotz Lane, Austin, TX 78742, 5 miles east of downtown Austin near the ABIA airport. Let us know if you need directions. Please e-mail us and let us know if you plan on coming.


Sunshine Community Gardens
Cedar Stevens
Contact: [e-mail]


Tree Folks/Urban Orchard
Contact: 512-443-LEAF
We’re here 8:00-4:30 every day and can always use someone to do simple, repetitive nursery stuff (weeding, potting up, feeding, etc.). Please encourage folks to contact us with any free time they have to volunteer!

Grow Green
Contact: Cheryl Goveia, 653-2125
Tuesday mornings at the Green Garden at Zilker from 9-12.
The garden is organic and we employ the Grow Green principles. Feel free to give me a call!


The Green Classroom
Contact: Lynn Miller, [e-mail]
School garden for Becker Elementary in Bouldin Creek. The volunteer opportunity is to teach a 30 minute class to elementary students. We are looking for assistants so it would be a good opportunity for the volunteers to work with experienced gardeners in a classroom setting.


Sustainable Food Center
Contact: Sari Albornoz, [e-mail]
Citizen Gardener's Needed - Help to improve vegetable gardens around Austin and create a GREEN vibrant city! Contact one of the following sites:

Supporting Gardens / Address Contact Name & InfoHours
El Jardin Alegre Community Garden
1801 East 2nd Street (78702)
Garden Liaison :Kathy McWhorter 478-9478, [e-mail]
Gardener workday every 3rd Saturday of the month from 9-12pm

Sanchez Elementary School Garden
73 San Marcos(78702)
Volunteer Coordinator: Donna DelBello 680-2979,
[e-mail]
Flexible - afterwork/weekends is when Donna tries to go

Martin Middle School Garden
1601 Haskell (78702)
Education Program Manager for Keep Austin Beautiful
Monica Magee 391-0619,
[e-mail]

Kealing Middle School Garden
1607 Pennsylvania Ave (78702)
Citizens in Schools
Cait May 414-6706,
[e-mail]

Help with after-school gardening program
Dobie Middle School / SFC Sprouting Healthy Kids Garden
1200 E. Rundberg Ln. (78753)
Grow Local
Emily Neiman 236-0074 x 105,
[e-mail] Flexible -

Ann Richards Middle School / SFC Sprouting Healthy Kids Garden
2206 Prather Ln. (78704)
Grow Local
Emily Neiman 236-0074 x 105,
[e-mail] -Flexible

Webb Middle School / SFC Sprouting Healthy Kids Garden
601 E Saint Johns Ave (78752)
Grow Local
Emily Neiman 236-0074 x 105,
[e-mail] -Flexible

Gus Garcia Middle School / SFC Sprouting Healthy Kids Garden
7414 Johnny Morris Rd (78724)
Grow Local
Emily Neiman 236-0074 x 105,
[e-mail] Flexible-

Alamo Community Garden
2101 Alamo Street (78722)
Volunteer Coordinator: Erin Fonner,
[e-mail]
During scheduled weekend workdays

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Interested in having volunteers help in your community garden? Use this form to send us details and we'll review it and let you know when you've been added.

Students should enter their volunteer hours using this form.

[Jessica Wilson]

Volunteers needed to spruce up and overhaul Martin Middle School’s garden. Individual volunteers, small groups and large groups welcome. Projects will include cleaning up the garden beds, weeding, soil amendment, watering, and planting seeds. KAB’s Green Teens program will be working with teachers and students to use the garden beds year round as an outdoor learning space – join us to kick start this effort.

Green Teens is an after-school environmental education program of Keep Austin Beautiful. Green Teens has partnered with Martin Middle School for three years to promote environmental stewardship.

Date: Saturday, September 20, 2008
Time: 9:00am-12:00pm
Location: Martin Middle School, 1601 Haskell (East Austin, 78702) - Garden located in gated area along south end of campus (visible from Comal Street)
To Register Contact: Monica Magee: [e-mail] or 512-391-0619.
Note: bring water bottle and gardening gloves. Tools, sunscreen, water, and some work gloves provided.

[Nita Durant]

Volunteer Opportunity the weekend of OCT 5, 2008 Sunday from 2:00 - 5:00pm

Community Work Day
Windsor Park Community Garden (behind the Austin Mennonite Church at 5801 Westminster)
Sunday Oct 5, 2:00 - 5:00

The main purpose of the work day will be to tear down and rebuild raised beds. With enough volunteers, we will tackle other projects -- tearing down old compost bins, planting rye-grass perimeters around circular "pods", weeding, picking up trash, etc.

Volunteers will need to bring their own water and gloves.

For contact info:
Elizabeth Kubala
636-4493 [e-mail]

[Nita Durant]

ANOTHER GREAT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY THIS WEEKEND -
OCT 11 (SAT) 10:00 TO 12:00

VOLUNTEER: Austin Green Art Central Volunteer Day
Start Time: 10:00 AM

Come help create what might be the best studio space in Austin! We need help installing a raised vegetable garden made from discarded concrete culverts outside of AGA Central. You'll get free pancakes, Maker Faire swag and new garden know-how.

AGA Central (35th Street and MOPAC)
Email [e-mail] if you can help.

[Jessica Wilson]

Ojeda Middle School Workday
November 15, 2008

Join teachers and students at Ojeda Middle School to spruce up the school garden. Individuals and groups welcome to register. Projects will include weeding and maintaining 6 raised bed gardens.

Location: Ojeda Middle School, 4900 McKinney Falls Parkway
Time: 9am to noon
For questions contact: Monica Magee at [e-mail] or at 512.391.0619

To register visit: http://forms.keepaustinbeautiful.org.s27.dotnetsql.com/Forms/EventV...

Note: All tools, sunscreen, and water provided. Please bring a water bottle and work gloves.

[Dick Pierce]

Urban Roots is a super program of Youth Launch of Austin. They operate on a section of the Hands of the Earth Farm CSA and are gearing up for their Spring Semester group of young, High School students who will learn their vegetables, how to prep, plant, tend and harvest, and also how to work as a diverse group, take product to market, sales/retail/business, and what it feels like to give food they grew to needy families. Here is their request for volunteers for the Jan. season.

Yes, it’s getting colder (did you see that snow Tuesday night?!) but our seeds are ordered and we are planning our first few planting dates in January. Tentatively, were are scheduling volunteer days for Tuesday January 6th to spread compost, Saturday January 10th to plant, Saturday January 24th to plant, and Thursday January 29th to plant. All volunteer days start at 9:00 and finish at 12:30pm. We will post more dates online soon. If you are interested in volunteering on the farm for any of these dates, email Kelly Stolpman ([e-mail]).

[Lori Ferris]

Is Bluebonnet Elementary School the one in Round Rock? If so, who is the contact person?

Also, would it be possible to have a separate list for Williamson County volunteer opportunities? It would make it much easier for those of us who live "up North" to find a place closer to home to volunteer. And it's nice to be involved with our own community.