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ORGANIZATION: Historic Wagner Farm

  • A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
  • 27 people are interested
Garden produce
Bountiful garden

Do you love to garden or just want to learn? If so, we'd love to have your help at Wagner Farm during the growing season. Gardening in the midwest tends to be limited to May through October. We accept applications and schedule orientations all year round.

Wagner Farm grows a variety of vegetables, herbs, and flowers. Our produce is sold to the public to generate revenue for our continued operating costs. Visiting Historic Wagner Farm is free and open to the public year round. In addition to sales, we donate produce to the local food pantry as well.

Volunteers help with:

  • planting, weeding, harvesting, cleaning and packaging produce
  • trimming and pruning landscaping
  • filling boxes of produce for our CSA (community supported agriculture) customers
Shifts are offered May through October on Monday-Friday at 9:30am-12:00pm or 1:00pm-3:30pm.

2 Shifts

  • 09:30 AM to 12:00 PM
    weekdays May through October
  • 01:00 PM to 03:30 PM
    weekdays May through October
  • NONE OF THESE TIMES WORK FOR ME, BUT I CAN STILL HELP
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About Historic Wagner Farm

Location:

1510 Wagner Rd., Glenview, IL 60025, US

Mission Statement

To promote an educational and memorable experience through programs and site visits that ignite the imagination, inspire our visitors, and preserve our local agricultural history.

Description

Historic Wagner Farm is one of the last working dairy farms in Cook County and is open to the public for recreation and learning. The farm provides a unique opportunity for families to learn about our farming heritage and experience first hand "the way things used to be."

In addition to the cows in the pasture, Wagner Farm has chickens, draft horses, and pigs as well as a restored farmhouse and barn and the award-winning Wagner Farm Heritage Center. The Heritage Center contains interactive exhibits where you can learn about farming from the early 20th century through the present, "shop through history" at our 1930s Grocery Store or purchase a souvenir of your visit from our Museum Store.

Historic Wagner Farm offers public visitation hours, educational programs for all ages, and special events throughout the year as well as seasonal sales of farm products.

CAUSE AREAS

Community
Environment
Hunger
Community, Environment, Hunger

WHEN

We'll work with your schedule.
This opportunity has 2 shifts

WHERE

1510 Wagner RoadGlenview, IL 60025

(42.08219,-87.78136)
 

DATE POSTED

March 17, 2023

SKILLS

  • Environmental Education
  • Gardening
  • Outdoor Recreation
  • Farming
  • Botany
  • Horticulture

GOOD FOR

  • Teens
  • People 55+
  • Group

REQUIREMENTS

  • Must be at least 13
  • Minimum time commitment is two shifts per month. Shifts are Monday through Friday from either 9:30am-12:00pm or 1:00pm-3:30pm. May through October.
  • Volunteers should be able to stand long periods of time and be comfortable working outdoors. Volunteers should be able to lift 20 pounds.

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