Coming Together in the Gardens Week of 8-7-2015

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Volunteering is an opportunity to learn new skills and to interact with people and communities that otherwise you may never encounter.  At Everybody Grows, we regularly work at our nursing home and fire station inspiration gardens with groups of volunteers.  For some of our volunteers, working in our gardens is their first experience growing food.  Other volunteers bring many gardening ideas and experiences to share, and we love to get their input and feedback.

At Stoddard Baptist Nursing Home this past week, we harvested from the garden and served a tasting session to the residents so everyone there could enjoy the food they planted and helped to grow.IMG_0597

At the fire stations, firefighters joined us to plant spinach, lettuce, beets, and other cold-resistant crops for the fall.

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Thank you to all the wonderful volunteers that have come out to support our inspiration gardens across the city. We truly enjoy growing food and sharing our work with each of you. If you are interested in volunteering, go to everybodygrows.org/volunteer. We always welcome any new volunteers.IMG_0667IMG_0528IMG_0331IMG_0337

Everybody Grows T-Shirt Promotion

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Everybody Grows will soon be ordering our first round of t-shirts with our new logo!  The t-shirt has the three color version of our logo on a muted beige background and is printed on a high quality cotton and polyester blend.

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For a limited time, donations of $35 will guarantee you one of our new shirts. Donations of $60 dollars or more will guarantee you two shirts.  Your donations will help fund our late summer planting, and by wearing your Everybody Grows shirt you can help bring awareness to our organization and our mission.

If you would like to contribute, please use our donation page and write what size shirt you would like in the comments box.  If you are unable to pick up the shirts from us at an event, please include your address and $5 for shipping and handling.

Thanks in advance for your generous support.

Volunteer Training Event

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All gardens benefit from watchful, caring gardeners.  Our inspiration gardens are no exception.  When I visited all of them recently, I was reminded that the more caretakers each of our gardens has, the more it will flourish and provide a great experience for everyone.   It is in this spirit that we have created a program to help volunteers grow their urban agriculture skills in order to support our gardens and the people that live with them everyday.

Everybody Grows  is happy to announce we will be holding a volunteer training event to brief both experienced and new volunteers on the skills and routines we use to maintain our inspiration gardens.  We will go over harvesting, transplanting, and pruning techniques in order to prepare volunteers to work in our gardens.   The event will be Sunday July 12th at 2 PM at Engine 26, 1340 Rhode Island Ave, NE.

Please email jake@everybodygrows.org to RSVP if you will be attending.  We will keep you updated on future volunteer training events through our website and social media.

Summer Volunteer Program

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Thank you so much to everyone who has inquired about summer volunteer programs.  Everybody Grows is happy to announce we have developed a summer volunteer program that will give participants the opportunity to learn about urban agriculture and nonprofit development through hands-on work. The program will begin July 8th and take place every Wednesday through August 17th.  We will offer five hours of volunteering and learning opportunities each Wednesday, with the option to work more on other days.  Minimum age to apply is 15.

 

If you are interested in applying, please email jake@everybodygrows.org by Wednesday, July 1st.   Please write a short note about why you would like to work with Everybody Grows, and answer the following questions:

 

  1.  Please share briefly about experience you have in one or more of the following areas.  Gardening, cooking, carpentry, teaching, social media, photography, online research, elder care, and community organizing.

 

  1.  Do you have access to a car during the day, and if so at what times?  Are you comfortable driving other people?

 

  1.  Are you currently attending school, and if so where and what are you studying?

 

Thanks again for your interest.  We are happy to answer questions about the program.  This will be our first year doing this, so we reserve the right to modify the program above, but trust that it will be a priority to provide a meaningful experience for each participant.