- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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1 person is interested
Farm Help for Loveland Youth Gardeners!
ORGANIZATION: Loveland Youth Gardeners
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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1 person is interested
Get your hands in the dirt this year!
We are looking for 1 - 2 volunteers each week to help us maintain our farm site. We are asking for volunteers to sign up to spend 2 - 4 hours doing various tasks around the farm such as watering, weeding, harvesting, etc.
Volunteers who sign up to come regularly will be able to receive veggies + herbs in exchange for their help!
DETAILS:
In general, this may not be supervised (aside from Community Farm Work Days). We will provide directions for entry to the farm & areas of focus for volunteers if no LYG staff member is on site.
Dates and times are flexible. Please indicate days & times that you are available.
Volunteers can sign up at any point throughout the growing season.
Work trade for veggies is only available to those who come regularly (at least 1x per week) to help.
Our farm is located in South Loveland.
We also have scheduled Community Farm Work Days where we call our volunteers to help us with a specific project at the farm. All C.F.W.D. are from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm on the following dates:
Saturday, August 5 th
Sunday, September 17 th
Saturday, October 14 th
Saturday, November 11 th
More opportunities with Loveland Youth Gardeners
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Loveland Youth Gardeners
Location:
PO Box 1004, Loveland, CO 80539, US
Mission Statement
Mission: Loveland Youth Gardeners empowers youth facing challenges to cultivate life/work skills, environmental stewardship and community service. Vision: Loveland Youth Gardeners helps youth blossom as individuals and grow in their relationships with people and the Earth. Our Goals: Develop job and life skills Promote active volunteerism through community service Encourage environmental stewardship by educating about natural resource and conservation practices Our Values: Positive relationships Respect for self, others, and environment Community Engagement Compassion Commitment Diversity Collaboration Interdependence
Description
Youth Gardening Program - (May to September) Students grow their own gardens, are taught a gardening curriculum, attend field trips and hear guest speakers, give tours of the garden, operate a road side farm stand and donate pesticide-free produce to low-income residents of the community.
Leaf-Out - (nearly year-round) Students can move to this "next" level program where they further develop job, social & life skills by working in the community/production garden, process/sell produce to local venues, and volunteer in community service projects.
Enterprise Internship - (nearly year-round) Students can apply to move into the Enterprise Internship program where their focus is on developing a product using herbs and/or produce from the gardens, marketing/sales & managing a business.
Branch Out - (Year-round Outreach Program) Branch Out focuses on serving all youth (ages 3-21) in our community. Programming and activities can go "on the road" to serve young people where they learn, live, work, or can be hosted on-site at LYG.
Loveland Plant a Row for the Hungry - Loveland Youth Gardeners initiated Loveland PAR in 2005. To date, the large community network that makes up Loveland PAR has contributed nearly 195,000 lbs. of produce to needy families in our community.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
2500 East 1st StreetLoveland, CO 80537
DATE POSTED
July 26, 2023
SKILLS
- Youth Services
- Environmental Education
- Farming
- Gardening
- Horticulture
- Relationship Building
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Flexible
- A waiver must be signed prior to participating.