Volunteer
Interested in volunteering? We need help in the garden, at the market, at the library, and with our dinners. Read through the descriptions below, and send us your contact info. We’d love to hear from you!
Good Ground Heritage Garden: We are looking for enthusiastic and energetic individuals interested in learning permaculture techniques and small-scale, bio-intensive, organic farming practice. Work will mostly be outdoors in the sun and sometimes in the rain. Work includes some heavy lifting and digging. Volunteers must not be allergic to bee stings. Duties will include: soil, compost, and garden bed preparation; planting; weeding; watering; and harvesting of vegetables and herbs. Coordinate drop-off of produce harvest to local food pantries. Assist in beehive inspections and management.
Good Ground Seed Library: We are looking for individuals to help maintain the seed library. Volunteers will help sort and process collected seeds for restocking the seed library during the fall and winter months. Duties will include: separating seeds from the husks; labeling, stuffing, and cataloging seed packets; and checking the seed library weekly for tidiness.
Organic Farm-to-Table Dinners: We are looking for skilled volunteers to help prepare and serve plant based, locally sourced meals to approximately 45 guests during our farm-to-table dinner and lunch events. Celebrated during the equinoxes and solstices, the dinners are served to ECI guests. Volunteers are asked to look presentable and to be able to keep up with a fast pace for the duration of the meal. Duties may include: setting up and breaking down of the dining area, assisting the chef with food preparation, serving and clearing plates, and helping with kitchen clean-up. [Note: due to the ongoing public health crisis, ECI dinners mostly “To-Go”.]