VOLUNTEER

TAKING ACTION

• Gardening is good for your mental and physical health

• The focus is on others in need

• Gardening provides good overall exercise as well as helps with hand dexterity and agility

• It is a way to get your Vitamin D3

• Gardening with us touches lives and makes a difference

• It helps build relationships – especially intergenerational and intercultural – and provides an opportunity to make new friends

• You’ll learn new things about vegetables and gardening

• You can put your skills and abilities to use

• Gardening helps with stress

• Give – use our Donate Button

• Volunteer as a group

• Do you need community service hours?  We can do that as a registered non-profit!  

• There are many possibilities to choose from:  Fertilizing, Planting, Transplanting, Weeding, Harvesting, Delivering Vegetables to local food pantries, Moving Manure, laying down gypsum, laying down and picking up drip tape (irrigation system), etc.  Pick the ones that appeal to you! 

OUR VOLUNTEERS ARE AWESOME!  THANKS!

We would like to take a moment to acknowledge and thank one of our first volunteers, Larry Ewing.  Larry saw that we needed help watering this large a garden and volunteered to do that.   Larry has also helped quite a lot with harvesting along with members of his family.  Larry helped with a significant project:  redoing the laying out of the water line to the garden.

We also wish to thank another volunteer for his many man hours of volunteering and other contributions:  Ernie Kazetsky.  Ernie has taken over the watering of the garden. He is enthusiastic about all he does at the garden.  He loves to come up with unique ways of watering our large vine crops and those we grow on the compost pile.  Ernie helped significantly with the building of the compost pile.  He has also built temporary structures for large vine crops to grow vertically such as Opo squash and Angled Luffa.  He also replaced the faucet connection at the garden.  He tried his hand at rotor tilling, too.  

In the past, we have connected with a group of wonderful families from St. Laurence Catholic Church.  About 7 families with children came out to learn to garden in their own small plot.  These families not only took care of their own plot, but they donated most of that food to the food pantries as well as helping in the big garden with harvesting, transplanting (leeks), planting, cleaning up crops at the end of the season and more.

Ready to volunteer?

Are you looking for a place where your contributions truly help others?  Do you want to discover how to grow vegetables – including ones you’ve never tried before? Have you ever wondered about how a vegetable looks when it is growing or can you identify vegetables in a field?  Besides helping at the garden, you will learn about this and much more.  You can take away knowledge to help you garden in your own backyard.  What vegetable varieties grow best in Houston?  When do I plant?  How do I plant?  What can I do about the gumbo (clay) soil in my backyard? Why do I need to fertilize and when?  What tools do I really need? How often do the vegetables need to be watered?  

Bring your children.  They get excited pulling carrots, radishes, beets and other root crops up – it’s like a surprise package!  Bring your grandparents.  A lot of them love to garden and miss it.  Volunteering boosts mental and physical health.  No matter if you have no skill or lots of skill in gardening, your contributions are welcome.  You may have non-gardening skills that can be applied.   Zeal or enthusiasm can be a great asset! Volunteer once in a while or participate regularly, it’s up to you.  Use the form below to sign up.  “Growing vegetables keeps me young. But it’s helping others that feeds my soul.” - Dawn Blackman

Note:  we will try to accommodate your preference for type of activity, but a lot of the time, it isn't possible due to the fact that gardening is a process.  Thanks for your understanding.   

NOTE:  WE TYPICALLY WORK MORNINGS ONLY (about 7 AM - 11 AM;M-Sat). PLEASE PUT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN THE FORM AND DO NOT ALTER THE FORM.  THANKS. 

SPECIAL MENTION:  Fort Bend Junior Service League Volunteers are  AWESOME!