Workdays
Check your email for upcoming workdays and specific tasks to those workdays.
Sign up via email in advance for the workday (and task).
Sign in on paper at the workday to make sure you get credit for your hard work.
If you don’t sign up in advance (via email) for a workday, you may be asked to come back on a different day depending on the tasks and the turnout.
Workdays are mostly on Saturday, starting promptly 9am and ending at noon.
Please bring:
- Water to drink (you can refill your water bottle from the taps)
- Gloves to protect your hands from blisters (optional)
- Plastic bags for trash (we can always use more!)
- Bug spray / Sun screen / etc. to keep you comfortable
- Tools that are appropriate for the jobs
What counts as a workday?
One workday is:
- One gardener representing a plot working during one workday
- $15 no-workday option
Two workdays are:
- One gardener working two different workdays
- Two gardeners working the same workday or two different workdays
- $30 (2 * $15 ) no-workday option
What happens on a workday?
Group leaders organize and direct work.
Gardeners work together to improve the gardens through community projects such as:
- Children’s Garden & Demonstration Plots
- Bring: shovel, gloves, water, hand tools
- Main Tasks: weeding the plots, hauling compost/leaves, planting flowers
- Brick Laying
- Bring: shovel, gloves, water
- Main Tasks: laying bricks along the pathway between the grass and plots
- Arbor Maintenance
- Bring: shovel, gloves, water, hand tools
- Main Tasks: weeding, planting
- Weedy Plot Clean-Up
- Bring: shovel, gloves, hoe, rake
- Main Tasks: removing grass, weeding, hauling leaves
- Garden Jury
- Bring: water, good walking shoes
- Main Tasks: walking through the gardens with other gardeners to identify the 5 worst plots, posting signs to identify the plots
- Garlic Mustard Pulling
- Bring: gloves, water, plastic trash bags
- Main Tasks: removing garlic mustard from areas bordering the gardens
- Note: this occurs once in early May
- Compost
- Bring: gloves, water
- Main Tasks: rotating compost, adding water and leaves, using the tiller to shred weeds for the compost bins
- Plot Labeling
- Bring: gloves, water
- Main Tasks: walking through the garden and relabeling the white stakes with the correct plot numbers
- Trash Pick-Up
- Bring: gloves, water, plastic trash bags
- Main Tasks: walking through the gardens and picking up trash
- Tool Repair and Painting
- Bring: gloves, water, any hand tools that are appropriate to the day’s work
- Main Tasks: painting community tools, repairing community tools, assembling carts, general repair work