On the first day of Spring, Saturday March 20^th, the 12 community- and school-gardens listed below will be having work-parties. Spend the morning outside and volunteer to help launch these gardens into the most productive Spring and Summer seasons ever! Children, families, and groups are very welcome.

Take a look, find a garden you want to get down and dirty at, and contact them to sign up as a volunteer.  It’s good for the soil, it’s good for the soul!

 

Ukiah,   for all Ukiah gardens, contact The Gardens Project, , (707) 462-2596 x 186

Orchard Apartments, 9am-12 pm

• Making an herb bed, installing a garden perimeter of fruit trees and perennials, painting signs
• Number of volunteers needed: 8

Plowshares Peace and Justice Center, 9am-12 pm

• Finishing building a potting shed, double digging garden beds, painting signs
• Number of volunteers needed: 5

Ukiah High School, 9am-12 pm

• Forming garden beds, building compost piles, laying irrigation on the 1 acre hillside, painting signs
• Number of volunteers needed: 10

Talmage State Preschool, 9am-12 pm

• Planting summer crops, double digging beds, pathwork, painting signs
• Number of volunteers needed: 5

North Pine St. Apartments, 9am-12 pm

• Weed removal, build and finish raised beds, move compost, pathwork, painting signs
• Number of volunteers needed: 5

Jack Simpson Senior Apartments, 9am-12pm

• Install drip irrigation, build new raised beds (old folks can't bend very well), build worm bin
• Volunteers needed: 5

 

Fort Bragg

Fort Bragg Learning Garden, 12-4 pm

• Prepare and plant beds
• Number of volunteers needed: 8
• Contact: Noyo Food Forest, (707) 964-0218

Fort Bragg Head Start Preschool, 12-4pm

• Make new beds (digging and protecting from gophers), begin mural on tool shed, finish shelving in interior of tool shed, planting. Carpenters welcome! All welcome!
• Number of volunteers needed needed: 6
• Contact: Kim, 357-1529

 

Potter Valley

Potter Valley Youth and Community Center, 9am-12pm

• Number of volunteers needed: 8
• Help start this garden! Preparing garden beds, weeding, moving compost, planting, painting signs
• Contact: Maria, 743 1789, pvhealthystart@gmail.com

 

Willits,    for all Willits Gardens, contact Mason at The Gardens Project, mgiem@gmail.com, (707) 841-0464

Brookside Farm, 10am-12pm

• Weeding, planting, tilling, greenhouse construction, painting signs
• Number of volunteers needed: 10

Willits Integrated Service Center Garden, 10am-12pm

• Cultivate soil, build a berm and rain swails, start work on a tool shed, painting signs
• Number of volunteers needed: 10

Willits Head Start Preschool, 10am-12pm

• Install irrigation, build beds, plant herbs, grasses, and perennials, install garden sinks, pathwork, painting signs
• Number of volunteers needed: 5