Volunteers: The Force behind our Success

What do Volunteers do?

There are many ways for one to participate in Garden Harvest's program. Field work activities are determined by the season and the weather at any given time.
Field work activities include: Spring: April 1 - June 1

1. Planting spring and summer crops.
2. Mulching vegetables and fruit trees.
3. Laying irrigation.
4. De-rocking the fields.
5. Staking tomatoes and dividing.
6. Planting and transplanting herbs and flowers.
7. Feeding bees, making bee hives.

1. Mulching.
2. Maintaining summer crops: fertilizing, weeding, organic pest control.
3. Planting perennial flowers and herbs, weeding, building flower beds.
4. Harvesting.
5. Planting fall crops.
6. Collecting and bottling honey.

1. Harvesting.
2. Mulching fruit trees.
3. Painting bark of fruit tree trunks.
4. Taking up irrigation, tomato stakes, cages.
5. Preparing beds for spring crops.
6. Maintaining fall crops; fertilizing, weeding, pest control.
7. Planting perennial flowers and herbs.

• Growing seedlings at home (primary choice of senior citizens and students).
• Participating in bulk-mailings (stuffing envelopes, applying labels).
• Designing and/or writing newsletters and brochures.
• Photography (taking photographs of Garden Harvest at work for marketing/ educational purposes).
• Fundraising.
• Marketing flowers and herbs.
• Booth-sitting (at volunteer fairs, Whole Life Expos, herb festivals).
• Organizing Garden Harvest Delights orders.