Upcoming events.
Upcoming events.
Birdhouse November Workday
Join us in the Birdhouse Community Garden on Saturday, November 2nd between 9am - 12pm for the last Community Work Day of the season! (Located at 1507 Grayland Ave behind the gazebo, next to the pool.)
This won't be the final time we gather as a group this year - we will have a community garden planning session in December! Saturday is just the final work day of the 2024 calendar year. Be on the lookout for information about the December Planning session over the next few weeks.
On Saturday, we will have all of the tools you need to succeed (thank you, RVA ToolBank!) as well as light snacks and water. Just bring yourself and maybe a friend or two! Closed toed shoes and clothes you can get messy/paint on are encouraged.
Planned activities for Saturday include:
-Prepping the garden for Winter
-Pulling out spent plants
-Planting garlic and some cover crops
-Compost management
-Finish sealing the Greenhouse with Silicone
-Finish installing the rope-rail system on the Greenhouse platform
-Painting garden signs, bricks, and spray painting BH chairs!
Bellemeade Park | Conserve & Create
To sign up CLICK HERE
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
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 Hillside Meadow Planting
To sign up CLICK HERE
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.
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)
Oak Grove Tree Planting
To Sign up click here
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..
Pleasants Park Cleanup
To Sign up click here
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!
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)
Fonticello Park Native Meadow Maintenance
To sign up click here
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.
Gilpin Community Garden Workday
To sign up: Click Here!
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
Broad Street Pollinator Park Beautification
To sign up click here
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!
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)
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)
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)
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)
Greenhouse Upkeep & Planting
To sign up CLICK HERE
Brief Organizational Description:
A weekly volunteer opportunity with Richmond Grows Gardens, a program of Richmond City Parks and Recreation. Our Greenhouse is located at Bryan Park . We grow seedlings to distribute to community gardens and other organizations growing food in their communities.
Volunteer Position Description and Purpose:
Volunteers will be planting seeds, uppotting seedlings, cleaning, and washing pots 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, long sleeves in case you are allergic to some plants. 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.
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)
Gilpin Community Garden Workday
During this volunteer day event we will focus on pulling weeds, removing sunflower stalks, mulching the rows, weeding the herb circle and pruning the Blackberries. Also we will weed the “Lilies for Lily” area and apply mulch!
Sankofa Community Orchard's Fall Festival
Dirt Therapy
1pm-3pm
Volunteer with us as we prepare for new growth at the farm!
Clothing Swap
2pm-4pm
Bring new or gently used clothing along with items for babies and children.
Fall Fun
4pm-6pm
Jump into autumn excitement with candy giveaways, games, and more!
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
Chimborazo Native Foods Project Workday
To sign up click here
Brief Organizational Description:
Chimborazo Native Foods is a community garden located in the east end of Richmond VA. They are commited to clearing out invasive plants and replacing them with natives!
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Volunteers will assist with laying out seed mix with cover crops and native grassland species in order to establish a native grassland on a hillside.
This mix will be covered with coconut coir matting, which volunteers will also assit in rolling out and decuring with stakes.
The work will be done on a sloped area with a good deal of holes, so Closed toe shoes are mandatory, and boots are highly recommended.
Water will be provided, but please a bottle.
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
Closed toe shoes
Time Commitment:
9am - 12pm
Other Information:
Location is in the park at the bottem of the hill near the dog park.
Parking is at the top of the hill and you'll need to walk down.
Bring refillable waterbottles!
Closed toe shoes required!
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)
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
Chimborazo Native Foods Project Workday
To sign up click here
Brief Organizational Description:
Chimborazo Native Foods is a community garden located in the east end of Richmond VA. They are commited to clearing out invasive plants and replacing them with natives!
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Volunteers will assist with laying out seed mix with cover crops and native grassland species in order to establish a native grassland on a hillside.
This mix will be covered with coconut coir matting, which volunteers will also assit in rolling out and decuring with stakes.
The work will be done on a sloped area with a good deal of holes, so Closed toe shoes are mandatory, and boots are highly recommended.
Water will be provided, but please a bottle.
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
Closed toe shoes
Time Commitment:
9am - 12pm
Other Information:
Location is in the park at the bottem of the hill near the dog park.
Parking is at the top of the hill and you'll need to walk down.
Bring refillable waterbottles!
Closed toe shoes required!
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)
Greenhouse Upkeep & Planting
To sign up CLICK HERE
Brief Organizational Description:
A weekly volunteer opportunity with Richmond Grows Gardens, a program of Richmond City Parks and Recreation. Our Greenhouse is located at Bryan Park . We grow seedlings to distribute to community gardens and other organizations growing food in their communities.
Volunteer Position Description and Purpose:
Volunteers will be planting seeds, uppotting seedlings, cleaning, and washing pots 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, long sleeves in case you are allergic to some plants. 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.
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 St Community Garden Workday
To sign up CLICK HERE
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
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)
Richmond Tree Week | Chimborazo Native Food Project
To sign up click here
Brief Organizational Description:
Chimborazo Native Foods is a community garden located in the east end of Richmond VA. They are commited to clearing out invasive plants and replacing them with natives!
Volunteer Position Description and Purpose:
We will be planting native shrubs for Richmond Tree Week, while others will be hand weeding of invasives using tools such as shovels. Expect to be kneeling, bending, stooping, digging, pulling and yanking. Some lifting (Max 30 lbs.) may be required.
Time Commitment:
Friday, October 11th from 9am-12pm
Other Information (if applicable):
Location is in the park at the bottem of the hill near the dog park.
Parking is at the top of the hill and you'll need to walk down.
Bring refillable waterbottles!
Closed toe shoes required!
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)
Greenhouse Upkeep & Planting
To sign up CLICK HERE
Brief Organizational Description:
A weekly volunteer opportunity with Richmond Grows Gardens, a program of Richmond City Parks and Recreation. Our Greenhouse is located at Bryan Park . We grow seedlings to distribute to community gardens and other organizations growing food in their communities.
Volunteer Position Description and Purpose:
Volunteers will be planting seeds, uppotting seedlings, cleaning, and washing pots 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, long sleeves in case you are allergic to some plants. 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.
Alice Fitz Community Garden
Hands-on help needed in finishing the benches rain barrels and painting the mural at the garden!
Maymont Community Garden Workday
On Sunday October 6th from 11am to 1pm we'll have our next work day at the garden!
We've Got it All!
Hot Beverages!
Snacks!
Fall weather!
Light Aerobic Exercise!
Human Interaction!
Non-Human Interaction!
Many hands make chill parks.
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)
Bellemeade Park | Conserve & Create
To sign up CLICK HERE
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
Birdhouse Community Garden Workday
This coming Saturday, October 5th, will be our next Birdhouse Community Garden work day! Join us in the garden between 9:00am - 12:00pm. Come and go as you please and there is no sign up for this month.
We have many activities planned such as general garden maintenance, raspberry patch pruning, some planting and turning the beds, seed saving, harvesting, painting, and more! We have a little something for everyone so I hope to see you on Saturday :)
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 St Community Garden Workday
To sign up CLICK HERE
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
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)