Upcoming events.
Upcoming events.
Inaugural Day of Service: Libby Hill Park Tree Planting
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The Friends of Libby Hill Park and the Department of Parks, Recreation & Community Facilities will be planting trees on Saturday, January 11th.
The Friends of Libby Hill Park are dedicated to tending to the gardens overlooking the view that named Richmond, caring for and planting trees to maintain shade for park vistors to enjoy, and providing resources to restore and repair park amenities, such as the Park House. In partnership with PRCF, they are welcoming neighbors and community to join this tree planting event.
Volunteers will assist with digging holes, root pruning, and planting trees.
This project runs from 9-noon.
Please dress warmly in layers and wear sturdy shoes.
Bring a reusable water bottle.
Street parking is available.
Volunteers who sign up for Inaugural Day of Service projects are invited to join us for a Kickoff event on Friday January 10th from 4-6 pm at Midtown Green. You will receive a link to register after you sign up for the volunteer project. Thank you for your participation!
Inaugural Day of Service: Ancarrow's Landing Litter Cleanup
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Join The City of Richmond's Parks and Recreation Department as we welcome the new mayor into office. Volunteer projects will be held in all 9 districts across the city, Ancarrow's Landing falls in the 6th district. Volunteers will be participating in a litter cleanup of Ancarrow's Landing and its surrounding areas. Trash grabbers, trash bags and gloves will be provided. Please dress according to the weather and bring a reusable water bottle. We hope to see you out in the park!
Volunteers who sign up for Inaugural Day of Service projects are invited to join us for a Kickoff event on Friday January 10th from 4-6 pm at Midtown Green. You will receive a link to register after you sign up for the volunteer project. Thank you for your participation!
Inaugural Day of Service: Shrub Planting and Tree Care at Petronius Jones Park
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Trees for a Healthier Richmond!
Tree canopy coverage is an important asset to urban areas, creating healthier, safer, and more connected communities. From cleaning our air and filtering our water, to slowing down storm surge and flooding in our cities, trees also provide shade that can cool areas by up to 10 degrees, helping to prevent heat-related deaths and illessess in urban areas that suffer from heat island effect. Green spaces and park settings are also linked to better health outcomes, in both reducing stress-related mental health issues, and by improving overall health development in children, and encouraging physical activity.
Join the City of Richmond's Parks & Rec for a community tree care and shrub planting day! We will be planting shrubs in the understory of some exsisting mature trees in Petronius Jones Park, located in the Randolph neighborhood. By planting these shrubs and establishing a "no-mow" area, we will be creating a root buffer zone that will protect the mature trees, while also slowing down erosion of the adacent walking trail.
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Volunteers will be assisting staff from the Parks & Rec Trails Crew, in planting shrubs and establishing a "no-mow" area. Duties will include hand digging and planting the small bare-root shrubs, mulching the entire area in, and installing "no-mow" fencing and signage. Volunteers may want to bring along sunscreen or a head covering, as well as a refillable water bottle (and snack if needed).
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
Tools and gloves will be provided, but feel free to bring along your own gloves if preferred. Sturdy closed toed shoes/boots, long sleeves and pants are required. No prior experience or special skills necessary, though some lifting (max. 50lbs), kneeling, bending, grasping, pushing/pulling and stooping will be required. All activities will be located outdoors, on uneaven terrain (ie. sloped grassy lawn, crushed stone walking trail, walking path edges, surface roots of trees). Please be aware of the weather forecast, and dress accordingly - this event is rain or shine, however advance communication will be sent if we need to cancel.
Time Commitment:
This event will be on Saturday, January 11th with two shifts: 11am- 1pm & 1pm-3pm. Please arrive on time and plan on staying for the full 2-hours. Sign-ups close 24 hrs before the opportunity! This allows for proper planning and communication.
Other Information:
Volunteer hours will be verified within 72hrs after the end of the event, though the CFengage website. Please bring your paperwork with you if a seperate form needs to be signed.
If arriving by bicycle, there are bike racks in the parking lot for the Randolph Pool
If arriving by GRTC Bus, Route 78 has nearby stops. Please visit http://ridegrtc.com/planning-your-trip/trip-planner for more details.
If arriving by vehicle, there is a small parking lot near by the work site, for the Randolph Pool. There is also ample street parking available along Idlewood Ave and the adjacent neighborhood. Car pooling is encouraged!
Have a large group or want to learn more details about this event? Feel free to reach out to the event leader Andrew.Alli@rva.gov!
Volunteers who sign up for Inaugural Day of Service projects are invited to join us for a Kickoff event on Friday, January 10th from 4-6 pm at Midtown Green. You will receive a link to register after you sign up for the volunteer project. Thank you for your participation!
Inaugural Day of Service: Bee City Conversion at Grace Street Park
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In 2024, the City of Richmond officially became a Bee CityUSA. Join members of the Friends of Grace Street Park as they work with Parks, Recreation & Community Facilities to replace invasive shrubs with native plants to support pollinator habitat.
Volunteers will assist with cleaning up and installing new shrubs in the park. This opportunity runs from 11am-2pm.
This park covers two medians. Volunteers will be entering the street. Safety vests will be required and provided.
A planting demonstration will occur at the beginning of the shift.
Dress in layers, wear sturdy shoes, and bring a reusable water bottle. We will have extra gloves, but feel free to bring your own pair.
Street parking is available along Grace, Allen, and Monument.
Volunteers who sign up for Inaugural Day of Service projects are invited to join us for a Kickoff event on Friday January 10th from 4-6 pm at Midtown Green. You will receive a link to register after you sign up for the volunteer project. Thank you for your participation!
Gilpin Community Garden | Inaugural Day of Service 2025
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Brief Organizational Description:
Gilpin Community Garden is host to youth programming operated by the Kinfolk Collective in the heart of Jackson Ward and is one of the 25 Richmond Grows Gardens locations.
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
To prepare for the upcoming growing season, work at the garden will include:
Weeding
Mulching
Trash clean up
Removing invasives
Buildling garden beds & Compost bins
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
Closed toe shoes
Personal water bottles
Ability to lift 10 pounds
Bending & squatting
Grabbing & pulling
Use of tools such as shovels, hand cultivators, wheel barrows, & drills
Time Commitment:
Janurary 11th, 11am-3pm
Other Information (if applicable):
Street parking only for this event.
The safest, most accessable way to enter the garden is from Calhoun St. close to the community center.
If you cross from St Peters st., for your safety, please cross where the road is straight and not curving.
Volunteers signed up for Inaugural Day of Service projects are invited to join us for a Kickoff event on Friday January 10th from 4-6 pm at Midtown Green. You will receive a link to register after you sign up for the volunteer project. Thank you for your participation!
Chimborazo Native Foods Project Workday
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Brief Organizational Description:
Richmond Grows Gardens helps community gardens cultivate community in city spaces with plants to achieve food access and environmental resilience.
Chimborazo's Native food forest is a project to establish a native community orchard and grassland habitat in Chimborazo Park that is both ecologically diverse and edible to humans. Plantings in the garden include American hazelnut, plums, serviceberry, persimmon, elderberry, and Mulberry along with many native grass species.
Volunteers activties may include tree planting, weeding, mulching, and weed wacking.
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
No training, background checks or qualifications or skills needed.
Time Commitment:
9:00AM-1:00PM
Other Information (if applicable):
Hours will be verified with a sign up sheet
Park at Chimborazo Dog Park at 3600 E Grace St, Richmond, VA 23223. We will meet at the bottom of the hill below parking.
See Pinned location:
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Water bottle
Water Cooler will be provided
Planet Rock Community Garden | Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service
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Brief Organization Description:
We are the people leading a new education to revolutionize our children’s knowledge through the demonstration of service to the community, the people, the garden. Our motto “plan it, plant it, and watch it grow.”
Volunteer Position Description and Purpose:
We will be celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's birthday with a city wide day of service in each district. For the 9th district, we are breaking ground for brand new community garden PlanetRock.
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Installing fence railings
planting fruit trees
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
Closed toe shoes
Personal water bottles
Bending and squatting
The ability to lift 30 pounds
The use of a mallet, shovel, and hand cultivator
Time Commitment:
January 20th 10:00am-02:00pm
Other Information:
The garden is located at the entrance of Broad Rock Sports Complex. Once entering, park on the left next to the basketball courts. From there you will see signs directing you to where the volunteer event will be.
Greenhouse Planting & Upkeep | Martin Luther Kind Jr. Day of Service 2025
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Brief Organizational Description:
Following City of Richmond's MLK Remembrance Event, join us in starting off the year of growing vegetable seedlings to provide free of charge to community gardens and togther community groups working to grow local food in their community.
Volunteer Position Description and Purpose:
We are looking for volunteers to plant seeds, care for seedlings and assist with greenhouse maintainence for the service of the community gardens of Richmond.
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
The volunteers will be watering, transplanting seedlings, cleaning pots as needed and assisting in any other tasks that may arise.
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
We welcome all levels of experience!
Time Commitment:
2 hours
Other Information (if applicable):
We can mark attendance in the system
We will train on site as needed
We recommend wearing clothes that you aren't afraid to get dirty. Bring layers. The temperature in the greenhouse fluctuates. Waterproof shoes or boots are recommended but not required. Again, wear what you're not afraid to get dirty.
Directions to parking: Turn off Hermitage/Lakeside ave into Bryan Park driveway. Pass through the entrance gate and take your first right (disregard the No Right Turn sign) and park in the parking lot of the cottage/greenhouse or along the road if there are no spots. See Pin for exact location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/7C9uzLgqVduU7DwF7
Bring a waterbottle and gloves. We do have extra gloves and all the tools you'll need.
If we are not in the greenhouse knock on the door of the cottage.
Martin Luther King Jr Day of Service 2025 - Westwood Playground Workday
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Join the Friends of Westwood Park for the Martin Luther King Day of Service. Tasks will include mulching and maintaining the rain garden.
Dress Warmly in layers, and bring a water bottle. Gloves and tools will be provided.
Parking Instructions will be provided prior to the event.
East End and Evergreen Cemeteries Cleanup
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Join the Friends of East End for a a day of service in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr at East End and Evergreen Cemeteries, the final resting place of Maggie Walker, John Mitchell Jr., and thousands of other African Americans. Volunteers are needed to help clear dense overgrowth, haul accumulated brush, and uncover long-hidden grave markers.
Tools, gloves, water, and snacks will be provided, though we encourage you to bring your own water bottle. Dress in layers and wear sturdy shoes. Children are welcome, as long as they are supervised by an adult.
WHERE: Evergreen Cemetery, 50 Evergreen Road, Richmond. After turning in at the green-and-white sign, follow the road past East End Cemetery on the right, through the white pillars marking the entrance to Evergreen. Please park along the road, leaving enough room for other cars to pass. We will have a sign-in table near the entrance. Please be sure to stop and sign in, even if you've volunteered with us before.
WHEN: Monday, January 20th 10am-1pm
For more information, please contact the Friends of East End at friendsofeastend@gmail.com. We can also be found on Instagram (@friendsofeastend) and Facebook (@EastEndCemeteryProject).
Martin Luther King Day of Service with Southside ReLeaf at Ernest Rd.
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Southside ReLeaf invites you to join us and Groundwork RVA as we continue work on the new park space at Ernest Rd.
Brief Organizational Description:
Our mission is to improve health outcomes and the quality of life for Southside Richmond by building green spaces and advocating for people-centered policy.
Volunteer Position Description and Purpose:
This phase of the project involves clearing out areas to be reseeded and replanted with native plants. As a volunteer, you will assist us in clearing these areas by raking English Ivy vines, moving ivy debris, and freeing trees from climbing ivy.
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Volunteers will be removing English Ivy vines with rakes, and by hand, moving ivy debris, and clipping vines to eradicate climbing ivy. Removal will include bending, and pulling. Moving vines may require lifting and pushing in a wheelbarrow. Clipping may include bending, squatting or kneeling.
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
No special skills are required to be successful in this project.
Time Commitment:
Monday, January 20, 2025 10a - 12p (2 hours)
Other Information (if applicable):
Volunteers will be marked in the CFEngage system. If you need a signature to document attendance, please bring your form with you.
Please wear long pants and closed toe shoes. Boots are recommended.
Parking will be in a residential neighborhood on the street. The address you may look up to get you there is 2913 Ernest Rd. Parking anywhere nearby is sufficient. Please do not block driveways or mailboxes.
Please bring a refillable water bottle. You are welcome to bring your own gloves. Gloves will be provided.
If you arrive late, you will see an area that has a No Parking sign. Walk back and then to the right, and you will find us.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service | Blackwell Park Litter Cleanup
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Join The City of Richmond's Parks and Recreation Department as we hold a litter cleanup at Blackwell Park (Charlie Sydnor Playground). Volunteer events will be held throughout all 9 districts to honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Trash grabbers, trash bags and gloves will be provided. Please bring water and dress according to the weather, we recommend dressing in layers.
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Broad Rock Community Garden Volunteer Workday
Brief Organizational Description:
Beautifying the space that is Broad Rock Community Garden for the neighborhood to use and enjoy!
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Responsibilities may vary.
Most of the time we will be Weeding, mulching, picking up trash, and planting.
Responsibilites may also include:
Prunning and thinning fruit trees
Time Commitment:
11am - 1pm every sunday unless it's raining
Other Information (if applicable):
There are no water fountains or bathrooms nearby
please bring your own water
closed toe shoes are required
gloves and tools will be provided
Broad Rock Community Garden Volunteer Workday
Brief Organizational Description:
Beautifying the space that is Broad Rock Community Garden for the neighborhood to use and enjoy!
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Responsibilities may vary.
Most of the time we will be Weeding, mulching, picking up trash, and planting.
Responsibilites may also include:
Prunning and thinning fruit trees
Time Commitment:
11am - 1pm every sunday unless it's raining
Other Information (if applicable):
There are no water fountains or bathrooms nearby
please bring your own water
closed toe shoes are required
gloves and tools will be provided
Broad Rock Community Garden Volunteer Workday
Brief Organizational Description:
Beautifying the space that is Broad Rock Community Garden for the neighborhood to use and enjoy!
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Responsibilities may vary.
Most of the time we will be Weeding, mulching, picking up trash, and planting.
Responsibilites may also include:
Prunning and thinning fruit trees
Time Commitment:
11am - 1pm every sunday unless it's raining
Other Information (if applicable):
There are no water fountains or bathrooms nearby
please bring your own water
closed toe shoes are required
gloves and tools will be provided
Habitat Restoration Event (Invasive Plant Removal)
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The mission of Friends of Forest Hill Park is to encourage and safeguard responsible use and care of the Park in collaboration with the City of Richmond.
Event Description: We will pull/cut invasive non-native plants, much of it English ivy. These plants are removed because nvasive plants outcompete native plants, and native plants provide food, protection, and places to reproduce and live for native birds, insects, and mammals.
Time Commitment: Up to 2 hours. Please arrive BEFORE the start time.
What to Bring: Work gloves if you have them. No open-toed footwear due to possibility of poison ivy.
Weather: We will work unless there's severe weather or heavy rain.
Location: December we will meet at the Stone House, which is near the corner of 41st St. and Springhill Ave.
Broad Rock Community Garden Volunteer Workday
Brief Organizational Description:
Beautifying the space that is Broad Rock Community Garden for the neighborhood to use and enjoy!
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Responsibilities may vary.
Most of the time we will be Weeding, mulching, picking up trash, and planting.
Responsibilites may also include:
Prunning and thinning fruit trees
Time Commitment:
11am - 1pm every sunday unless it's raining
Other Information (if applicable):
There are no water fountains or bathrooms nearby
please bring your own water
closed toe shoes are required
gloves and tools will be provided
Conserve & Create at Bellemeade
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Brief Organizational Description:
Friends of Bellemeade Park mission is to create an outdoor learning campus for the purpose of providing outdoor education for the youth and families of our region
Volunteer Position Description and Purpose:
Create and maintain our outdoor campus
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
We will be working in our garden and chicken coop. Weeding,applying compost and mulch. Helping our children garden.
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
No special skills need-just a willing spirit
Time Commitment:
9:00-12:00.
Other Information (if applicable):
Hours will be verified with a sign up sheet
No training required
Comfortable clothing suitable for gardening
Park at Bellemeade Community Center 1800 Lynnhave Ave. and follow sigs into the park
Gloves and water bottle
Come with a willing spirit and join our wonderful volunteers
Chimborazo Native Food Forest Work Day
Brief Organizational Description:
Richmond Grows Gardens helps community gardens cultivate community in city spaces with plants to achieve food access and environmental resilience.
Chimborazo's Native food forest is a project to establish a native community orchard and grassland habitat in Chimborazo Park that is both ecologically diverse and edible to humans. Plantings in the garden include American hazelnut, plums, serviceberry, persimmon, elderberry, and Mulberry along with many native grass species.
Volunteers activties may include tree planting, weeding, mulching, and weed wacking.
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
No training, background checks or qualifications or skills needed.
Time Commitment:
9:00AM-1:00PM
Other Information (if applicable):
Hours will be verified with a sign up sheet
Park at Chimborazo Dog Park at 3600 E Grace St, Richmond, VA 23223. We will meet at the bottom of the hill below parking.
Water bottle
Water Cooler will be provided
Dirt Therapy @ Sankofa Community Orchard
Sign up through the link HERE
Brief Organizational Description:
Happily Natural Day promotes holistic health, wellness and social change through transformation of the built environment for food justice and climate resiliency.
Volunteer Position Description and Purpose:
Sankofa Community Orchard is a two acre food justice and climate resiliency demonstration. Volunteers help steward community food growing, soil building, composting, tree planting and native plant planting.
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Volunteers will assist with planting veggies, trees, and fruiting shrubs. As Sankofa expands in size, volunteers will also help with establishing new garden beds. There may be weeding and replanting of perennial flowers in our pollinator garden and occasional building of compost bins, trellis systems, or even helping to install low tunnels or greenhouses to extend our growing season.
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
No experience necessary!
Time Commitment:
Thursdays from 11am - 1pm (unless it is raining or snowing)
Saturdays from 1pm - 3pm (unless it is raining or snowing)
Other Information (if applicable):
Please dress appropriately for gardening activities! Bring gloves if you can!
Park along the street (Covington Rd or Media Road)
Broad Rock Community Garden Volunteer Workday
Brief Organizational Description:
Beautifying the space that is Broad Rock Community Garden for the neighborhood to use and enjoy!
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Responsibilities may vary.
Most of the time we will be Weeding, mulching, picking up trash, and planting.
Responsibilites may also include:
Prunning and thinning fruit trees
Time Commitment:
11am - 1pm every sunday unless it's raining
Other Information (if applicable):
There are no water fountains or bathrooms nearby
please bring your own water
closed toe shoes are required
gloves and tools will be provided
Dirt Therapy @ Sankofa Community Orchard
Sign up through the link HERE
Brief Organizational Description:
Happily Natural Day promotes holistic health, wellness and social change through transformation of the built environment for food justice and climate resiliency.
Volunteer Position Description and Purpose:
Sankofa Community Orchard is a two acre food justice and climate resiliency demonstration. Volunteers help steward community food growing, soil building, composting, tree planting and native plant planting.
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Volunteers will assist with planting veggies, trees, and fruiting shrubs. As Sankofa expands in size, volunteers will also help with establishing new garden beds. There may be weeding and replanting of perennial flowers in our pollinator garden and occasional building of compost bins, trellis systems, or even helping to install low tunnels or greenhouses to extend our growing season.
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
No experience necessary!
Time Commitment:
Thursdays from 11am - 1pm (unless it is raining or snowing)
Saturdays from 1pm - 3pm (unless it is raining or snowing)
Other Information (if applicable):
Please dress appropriately for gardening activities! Bring gloves if you can!
Park along the street (Covington Rd or Media Road)
Ivy League ivy removal workday - from public spaces to parks project
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Southside ReLeaf | http://www.southsidereleaf.org
Southside ReLeaf invites you to join us as we create a path in this beautiful natural space by removing a trail of English Ivy!
Brief Organizational Description:
Our mission is to improve health outcomes and the quality of life for Southside Richmond by building green spaces and advocating for people-centered policy.
Volunteer Position Description and Purpose:
This phase of the project involves clearing out areas to be reseeded and replanted with natives. As a volunteer, you will assist us in clearing these areas by removing English Ivy.
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Volunteers will be removing English Ivy by hand. Removal will include bending and kneeling. For anyone who is interested in helping, but uncomfortable with bending and kneeling, please reach out before the workday. We can easily accommodate by having you in our tree ivy removal group.
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
No special skills are required to be successful in this project.
Time Commitment:
Thursday, September 19, 2024 9a - 11a (2 hours)
Other Information (if applicable):
Volunteers will be marked in the CFEngage system. If you need a signature to document attendance, please bring your form with you.
Please wear long pants and closed toe shoes. The temperature under the canopy is significantly lower. Feel free to bring a long sleeve shirt if you like, but it is not required.
Parking will be in a residential neighborhood on the street. The address you may look up to get you there is 4701 Ernest Rd. Parking anywhere nearby is sufficient. Please do not block driveways or mailboxes.
Please bring a refillable water bottle. You are welcome to bring your own gloves. Gloves will be provided.
Capital Trees - Garden Maintenance
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Capital Trees currently has four completed projects, but the work is far from over. With the goal to not only create new public greenspaces, but also to maintain them, we need volunteers now more than ever. With sustainability at the heart of our maintenance mission we hope you will join us in our ongoing effort to create a greener, more sustainable Richmond.
This group works directly with our horticultural consultant on ongoing garden maintenance such as, weeding, pruning, deadheading, transplanting, etc. You do not need to be able to participate every week or for the entire morning to volunteer.
Should you be interested in participating in these meetups please reach out to me with your name and email.
Broad Rock Community Garden Volunteer Workday
Brief Organizational Description:
Beautifying the space that is Broad Rock Community Garden for the neighborhood to use and enjoy!
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Responsibilities may vary.
Most of the time we will be Weeding, mulching, picking up trash, and planting.
Responsibilites may also include:
Prunning and thinning fruit trees
Time Commitment:
11am - 1pm every sunday unless it's raining
Other Information (if applicable):
There are no water fountains or bathrooms nearby
please bring your own water
closed toe shoes are required
gloves and tools will be provided
Dirt Therapy @ Sankofa Community Orchard
Sign up through the link HERE
Brief Organizational Description:
Happily Natural Day promotes holistic health, wellness and social change through transformation of the built environment for food justice and climate resiliency.
Volunteer Position Description and Purpose:
Sankofa Community Orchard is a two acre food justice and climate resiliency demonstration. Volunteers help steward community food growing, soil building, composting, tree planting and native plant planting.
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Volunteers will assist with planting veggies, trees, and fruiting shrubs. As Sankofa expands in size, volunteers will also help with establishing new garden beds. There may be weeding and replanting of perennial flowers in our pollinator garden and occasional building of compost bins, trellis systems, or even helping to install low tunnels or greenhouses to extend our growing season.
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
No experience necessary!
Time Commitment:
Thursdays from 11am - 1pm (unless it is raining or snowing)
Saturdays from 1pm - 3pm (unless it is raining or snowing)
Other Information (if applicable):
Please dress appropriately for gardening activities! Bring gloves if you can!
Park along the street (Covington Rd or Media Road)
Garber Street Garden Workday
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Garber Street Garden Workday
Garber Street Community Garden is green space in the Fulton Hilll neighborhood. Currently in a transitional phase, we are looking for volunteers to help Richmond Grows Gardens and community members in the neighborhood to help establish a communal space that is ecologically diverse with native plants, food, and flowers.
Richmond Grows Gardens:
Richmond Grows Gardens helps community gardens cultivate community in city spaces with plants to achieve food access and environmental resilience.
Volunteer Position Description and Purpose:
Volunteer activities may include planting, weeding, mulching, and weed wacking, building small structures.
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
No training, background checks or qualifications or skills needed.
Time Commitment:
9:00AM-11:30 AM
Address and Parking:
1433 Garber St, Richmond, VA 23231
There is Street parking
Other Information (if applicable):
Hours will be verified with a sign up sheet, and we are happy to sign any documentation needed for volunteer hours.
Bring a Water bottle - a Water Cooler will also be provided.
Park beautification at Blackwell Park - Invasive
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Southside ReLeaf | http://www.southsidereleaf.org
Southside ReLeaf invites you to join us during Richmond Tree Week as we tend to the invasive species encroaching on the green spaces at Blackwell Park.
Brief Organizational Description:
Our mission is to improve health outcomes and the quality of life for Southside Richmond by building green spaces and advocating for people-centered policy.
Volunteer Position Description and Purpose:
Volunteers will be assisting with removal of invasive species to minimize their growth and help beautify the park. In honor of Richmond Tree Week sponsored by Reforest Richmond, our efforts will focus on freeing trees from the encroachment of invasive species.
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Volunteers will be removing any invasive species from the trees along the property edge. Removal may include bending and kneeling.
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
No special skills are required to be successful in this project.
Time Commitment:
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 11a - 2p (3 hours)
Other Information (if applicable):
Volunteers will be marked in the CFEngage system. If you need a signature to document attendance, please bring your form with you.
Please wear long pants and closed toe shoes.
Please bring a refillable water bottle. You are welcome to bring your own gloves. Gloves and tools will be provided.
Dirt Therapy @ Sankofa Community Orchard
Sign up through the link HERE
Brief Organizational Description:
Happily Natural Day promotes holistic health, wellness and social change through transformation of the built environment for food justice and climate resiliency.
Volunteer Position Description and Purpose:
Sankofa Community Orchard is a two acre food justice and climate resiliency demonstration. Volunteers help steward community food growing, soil building, composting, tree planting and native plant planting.
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Volunteers will assist with planting veggies, trees, and fruiting shrubs. As Sankofa expands in size, volunteers will also help with establishing new garden beds. There may be weeding and replanting of perennial flowers in our pollinator garden and occasional building of compost bins, trellis systems, or even helping to install low tunnels or greenhouses to extend our growing season.
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
No experience necessary!
Time Commitment:
Thursdays from 11am - 1pm (unless it is raining or snowing)
Saturdays from 1pm - 3pm (unless it is raining or snowing)
Other Information (if applicable):
Please dress appropriately for gardening activities! Bring gloves if you can!
Park along the street (Covington Rd or Media Road)
Broad Street Pollinator Park Beautification
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Join us to maintain a beautiful space at Broad Street Pollinator Park, on a bi-weekly basis. Depending on the week, we will be mowing, weeding, planting, and cleaning up this space for the public and the pollinators to enjoy!
Please wear closed-toed shoes, water to drink, and weather-appropriate clothing. A snack is recommended!
Capital Trees - Garden Maintenance
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Capital Trees currently has four completed projects, but the work is far from over. With the goal to not only create new public greenspaces, but also to maintain them, we need volunteers now more than ever. With sustainability at the heart of our maintenance mission we hope you will join us in our ongoing effort to create a greener, more sustainable Richmond.
This group works directly with our horticultural consultant on ongoing garden maintenance such as, weeding, pruning, deadheading, transplanting, etc. You do not need to be able to participate every week or for the entire morning to volunteer.
Should you be interested in participating in these meetups please reach out to me with your name and email.
Gilpin Community Garden Workday
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Brief Organizational Description:
Gilpin Community Garden is a public green space that grew out of the vision of Lillie Estes and is one of four growing sites in the Food Justice Corridor. Community beds are open to anyone that is interested in learning and participating; grow and take what you can.
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
During this event we will focus on saving and packaging seeds, harvesting and packaging herbs from the Angel Circle, stalking blackberries. We will also prune trees, clear and solarize behind the shed, and apply mulch to the rest of the garden.
lastly we will be building “Lilies for Lily” bed for the planting ceremony!
Time Commitment:
4-6pm
Other Information (if applicable):
There are no water fountains or bathrooms nearby
Please bring your own water
Closed toe shoes are required
Fonticello Park Native Meadow Maintenance
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Brief Organizational Description:
The Friends of Fonticello Park are honoring the history of the park, while creating a safe, welcoming and nourishing outdoor space for our community and neighbors. Check us out at https://fonticelloparkrva.com/
Volunteer Position Description and Purpose:
Volunteers will be helping to weed and mulch a native meadow planted on the site of the old tennis courts last fall. Please help us to support this space!
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
None required
Time Commitment:
9:00-12:00 AM
Other Information:
Meet at the corner of Perry and W. 29th St
Street parking is available.
Park neighbors are highly encouraged to sign up, since you can walk!
Tools will be provided
Dress accordingly. Wear closed toed shoes and sun protection if needed.
Bring a water bottle to stay hydrated.
Broad Rock Community Garden Volunteer Workday
Brief Organizational Description:
Beautifying the space that is Broad Rock Community Garden for the neighborhood to use and enjoy!
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Responsibilities may vary.
Most of the time we will be Weeding, mulching, picking up trash, and planting.
Responsibilites may also include:
Prunning and thinning fruit trees
Time Commitment:
11am - 1pm every sunday unless it's raining
Other Information (if applicable):
There are no water fountains or bathrooms nearby
please bring your own water
closed toe shoes are required
gloves and tools will be provided
Dirt Therapy @ Sankofa Community Orchard
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Brief Organizational Description:
Happily Natural Day promotes holistic health, wellness and social change through transformation of the built environment for food justice and climate resiliency.
Volunteer Position Description and Purpose:
Sankofa Community Orchard is a two acre food justice and climate resiliency demonstration. Volunteers help steward community food growing, soil building, composting, tree planting and native plant planting.
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Volunteers will assist with planting veggies, trees, and fruiting shrubs. As Sankofa expands in size, volunteers will also help with establishing new garden beds. There may be weeding and replanting of perennial flowers in our pollinator garden and occasional building of compost bins, trellis systems, or even helping to install low tunnels or greenhouses to extend our growing season.
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
No experience necessary!
Time Commitment:
Thursdays from 11am - 1pm (unless it is raining or snowing)
Saturdays from 1pm - 3pm (unless it is raining or snowing)
Other Information (if applicable):
Please dress appropriately for gardening activities! Bring gloves if you can!
Park along the street (Covington Rd or Media Road)
Pleasants Park Cleanup
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Join the Friends of Oregon Hill Parks and Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association as we clean up/make updates to our beloved Pleasant's Park. Refreshments will be provided. Thank you in advance!
Oak Grove Tree Planting
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Join the Chesapeake Bay Foundation for a tree planting at Oak Grove Neighborhood Planting.
Volunteers will work together to plant a variety of medium-sized trees. Most trees will be in 7–15-gallon pots, so they are easy for volunteers to move. The trees will cool our city, filter air and water pollution, stabilize soil to reduce erosion and reduce carbon emissions.
No prior experience is necessary! We will provide all tools, gloves, and instructions needed for a successful planting. Wear weather-appropriate clothes, sturdy shoes, and bring your own water bottle. Please register in advance so we can bring the appropriate number of tools.
Please keep in mind that we have limited the number of volunteers who can participate in this event. If you find that your schedule or health prevents you from being able to attend, please notify us immediately so we can recruit another volunteer in your place.
If you have questions, please contact Ann Jurczyk via email at ajurczyk@cbf.org or by phone at 804-258-1522.
This event is co-sponsored with Virginia Interfaith Power & Light.
The rain date for this planting is November 10, 9:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M..
Dirt Therapy @ Sankofa Community Orchard
Sign up through the link HERE
Brief Organizational Description:
Happily Natural Day promotes holistic health, wellness and social change through transformation of the built environment for food justice and climate resiliency.
Volunteer Position Description and Purpose:
Sankofa Community Orchard is a two acre food justice and climate resiliency demonstration. Volunteers help steward community food growing, soil building, composting, tree planting and native plant planting.
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Volunteers will assist with planting veggies, trees, and fruiting shrubs. As Sankofa expands in size, volunteers will also help with establishing new garden beds. There may be weeding and replanting of perennial flowers in our pollinator garden and occasional building of compost bins, trellis systems, or even helping to install low tunnels or greenhouses to extend our growing season.
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
No experience necessary!
Time Commitment:
Thursdays from 11am - 1pm (unless it is raining or snowing)
Saturdays from 1pm - 3pm (unless it is raining or snowing)
Other Information (if applicable):
Please dress appropriately for gardening activities! Bring gloves if you can!
Park along the street (Covington Rd or Media Road)
Broad Rock Community Garden Volunteer Workday
Brief Organizational Description:
Beautifying the space that is Broad Rock Community Garden for the neighborhood to use and enjoy!
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Responsibilities may vary.
Most of the time we will be Weeding, mulching, picking up trash, and planting.
Responsibilites may also include:
Prunning and thinning fruit trees
Time Commitment:
11am - 1pm every sunday unless it's raining
Other Information (if applicable):
There are no water fountains or bathrooms nearby
please bring your own water
closed toe shoes are required
gloves and tools will be provided
Bellemeade Park Hillside Meadow Planting
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Join Parks Rec, Friends of Bellemeade, and Local Ecotype Richmond Native (LERN) to establish a native meadow at Bellemeade Park on the hillside above the ballfield. We will be planting several thousand native plugs provided by LERN. Meet at the Krouse St entrance to the park at the top of the hill. Parking available on Krouse St, Royal Ave, and inside the park.
Come prepared to be kneeling and digging in the dirt. Gloves, tools, and water provided. The hillside is covered in a coco coir erosion control matting so some volunteers will need to be comfortable using box cutters to cut holes in the matting to plant.
Dirt Therapy @ Sankofa Community Orchard
Sign up through the link HERE
Brief Organizational Description:
Happily Natural Day promotes holistic health, wellness and social change through transformation of the built environment for food justice and climate resiliency.
Volunteer Position Description and Purpose:
Sankofa Community Orchard is a two acre food justice and climate resiliency demonstration. Volunteers help steward community food growing, soil building, composting, tree planting and native plant planting.
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Volunteers will assist with planting veggies, trees, and fruiting shrubs. As Sankofa expands in size, volunteers will also help with establishing new garden beds. There may be weeding and replanting of perennial flowers in our pollinator garden and occasional building of compost bins, trellis systems, or even helping to install low tunnels or greenhouses to extend our growing season.
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
No experience necessary!
Time Commitment:
Thursdays from 11am - 1pm (unless it is raining or snowing)
Saturdays from 1pm - 3pm (unless it is raining or snowing)
Other Information (if applicable):
Please dress appropriately for gardening activities! Bring gloves if you can!
Park along the street (Covington Rd or Media Road)
Bellemeade Park | Conserve & Create
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Brief Organizational Description:
Friends of Bellemeade Park mission is to create an outoor learning campus for the purpose of providing outdoor education for the youth and families of our region
Volunteer Position Description and Purpose:
Create and maintain our outdoor campus
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
We will be working in our garden and chicken coop. Weeding,applying compost and mulch. Helping our children garden.
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
No special skills need-just a willing spirit
Time Commitment:
9:00-12:00.
Other Information (if applicable):
Hours will be verified with a sign up sheet
No training required
Comfortable clothing suitable for gardening
Park at Bellemeade Community Center 1800 Lynnhave Ave. and follow sigs into the park
Gloves and water bottle
Come with a willing spirit and join our wonderful volunteers