Get involved
No experience, no problem, no minimum.
No experience needed, no minimum commitment, and nothing to bring. If you can kneel in a garden bed for an hour, you can do every job we have.
What you would do
Pick your kind of morning.
Planting days
Preparing beds and getting seeds and seedlings into the ground. The heaviest work, and the least frequent.
Garden care
Watering, weeding, and checking for pests. An hour, most weeks, whenever suits you.
Harvest and pack mornings
Picking, washing, and packing on delivery days. Early starts, because everything is picked the morning it goes out. This is the busiest and most useful shift.
Driving
Getting bundles from the garden to the clinic. You need a license, a car, and about an hour.
What to expect
Honest about the small stuff.
You will not be alone
At least one of us is at every shift, along with our adult advisor. Nobody is ever sent to the garden by themselves.
Shifts are short
Most are an hour. Harvest mornings run to two. We would rather have you back next week than exhausted once.
You will not meet a recipient
Bundles go to our partner clinic, and the clinic decides who receives them. We never hold a family's name, and neither will you.
Under 18 is welcome
Most of us are. You will need a parent or guardian to sign off before your first shift.
Sign up
Tell us when you are free.
The form takes about two minutes. We will get back to you within a few days with the next shift that matches what you picked.
Groups
Clubs, classes, and youth groups.
We can take a group of up to eight on a planting or harvest day, and it is genuinely useful — a bed that takes two of us a fortnight takes a group one morning.
Email us with rough numbers and a date range rather than using the form above, and we will find a day that works.