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Gardening Volunteer - Charles River Valley (Powisset Farm, Dover)
ORGANIZATION: The Trustees of Reservations
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Opportunity Overview:
Are you passionate about gardening and enjoy tending to plants’ needs to help them flourish throughout the season? Do you have a few hours a week to spare, enjoy working outdoors, and want to share your gardening skills while working with a variety of plants in a beautiful setting? Then we would love to have your help! The staff of The Trustees Charles River Valley Management Unit (CRVMU) is looking for individuals to help maintain a large pollinator garden, entry gardens, and flower planters. Many skills you learn throughout the season will be transferable to your own home gardens.
This position will be based at Powisset Farm in Dover, the CRVMU’s headquarters/workshop for the Charles River Valley. In addition to having the gardens that need tending by gardening volunteers, Powisset Farm is a thriving 109 acre farm with an active Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, and also features trails that explore woodlands, fields, and wetlands.
To learn more and sign up online, visit our website here: Gardening Volunteer - Chestnut Hill Farm https://volunteer.thetrustees.org/opportunity/a0C3b00000fkrxS/gardening-volunteer-chf
Responsibilities (may include but are not limited to the following):
- Work with staff to assess gardening priorities and needs
- Plant and/or transplant annuals and perennials
- Dig, divide, and replant perennials
- Perform repetitive gardening tasks, including weeding, deadheading, edging, pruning, watering, and harvesting a variety of plants and gardens
- Perform seasonal gardening tasks such as raking and mulching
- Effectively communicate with staff and other volunteers
- Adhere to The Trustees safety and COVID-19 protocols
- Log volunteer hours weekly
- Enthusiastic about helping gardens to thrive during all phases of the growing season
- Interested in performing general gardening practices, including repetitive tasks such as weeding, watering, and pruning
- Interested in performing seasonal gardening tasks that help ensure the long-term health and vigor of plants and gardens
- Able to use garden tools, including wheelbarrows, edgers, trowels, shovels, and pruners
- Able to stand for extended periods of time, bend, stoop, dig, and lift a minimum of 25 lbs.
- Able to walk on a variety of surfaces including grass or uneven surfaces
- Able and willing to work outdoors in varying seasonal weather conditions
- Able to follow instructions and work as part of a team as well as individually
- Flexible schedule and commitment to consistent
- volunteering at the property
Time Commitment:
Flexible schedules available. Must be able to commit to 4 hours per week, once per week, for the entire growing season. Weekdays are preferable but weekends may be possible once established. In addition, staff is present on Thursday mornings to work alongside volunteers.
Volunteers needed through 12/31/2027
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About The Trustees of Reservations
Location:
200 High Street, Boston, MA 02110, US
Mission Statement
The Trustees of Reservations is here to protect and share the Massachusetts places people love for their exceptional scenic, historic, and ecological value. For their trails, their history, their gardens, their beaches. For the simple reason that nature and culture can soothe the soul and improve our lives.
Description
Who We Are
We are more than 100,000 people like you who love the outdoors, who love the distinctive charms of New England, and who believe in celebrating and protecting them, for everyone, forever.
Together with our neighbors, we protect the distinct character of our communities and inspire a commitment to our special places. Our passion is to share with everyone the irreplaceable natural and cultural treasures we care for.
What We Do
We enjoy and care for more than 100 special places - nearly 25,000 acres - all around Massachusetts. And we are actively building an extended family of friends and neighbors across the state that can help in their different ways.
What We Are Up Against
Through more than 100 years of hard work and high standards, The Trustees have built a sterling reputation and a stunning physical legacy.
Today, the places we care about are going fast, and the forces undermining them, including climate change, are moving faster. We need to tap the wellspring of people’s joy - in their communities, their heritage, and the natural world - and mobilize a whole new generation to care.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
37 Powisset StreetDover, MA 02030
DATE POSTED
July 26, 2022
SKILLS
- Environmental Education
- Botany
- Gardening
- Habitat Restoration
- Horticulture
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18
- Flexible schedules. Must be able to commit to 4 hours per week, once per week, for the entire growing season. Weekdays are preferable but weekends may be possible. Staff is present on Thursday mornings.
- Skill Level: intermediate to advanced gardeners preferred Able to use garden tools, including wheelbarrows, edgers, trowels, shovels, and pruners. Able to stand for extended periods of time, bend, stoop, dig, and lift a minimum of 25 lbs.