What to Expect When Volunteering
All are welcome!
Want to learn more about year-round farming and growing fruits and vegetables while immediately sharing your efforts with the Rappahannock community? If so, no other “experience” is needed!
Sign up to be put on the Volunteer email list to receive the weekly volunteer schedule in your inbox.
If you have skills or talents you’d like to contribute, please see our wish list. Feel free to suggest others as well!
Your Shift
WHAT TO BRING
- Water bottle (don’t forget it when you leave!)
- Gloves, if you’d like your own
- Boots or mud-friendly shoes
- Clothes and hats for the weather and getting dirty
- Sunscreen
AT THE FARM
- Gravel parking space (look for the open overfill spot through the gate if the lot is full)
- Tools and other farm equipment
- Porta-potty
- Weather of the day
- New friends!
Season by Season
SPRING
- “Cleaning up” cold weather crop damage
- Pruning, removing, and composting to give plants a chance to recover and grow
- Harvesting and donating winter crops at reduced levels
- LOTS of planting in open fields and the greenhouse
SUMMER
- Continued planting
- Weeding
- Watering
- Harvesting
FALL
- Still planting!
- LOTS of harvesting
- Weeding, some watering as needed
Crops you’ll get your hands on:
- Kale
- Collards
- Cabbage
- Tomato starts
- Spinach
- Onions
- Potatoes
- Sweet potatoes
- Watermelon and cantaloupe
- Yellow squash
- Zucchini
Crops you’ll get your hands on:
- Yellow squash
- Peppers
- Onions
- Zucchini
- Tomatoes
- Potatoes
- Spinach
- Radishes
- Cucumbers
- Watermelon and cantaloupe
Crops you’ll get your hands on:
- Sweet, white, and blue potatoes
- Zucchini
- Tomatoes
- Turnips
- Radishes
- Beets
- Collards
- Kale
- Spinach
- Onions
- Cabbage
- Broccoli