St. Vincent DePaul Community Garden Volunteer Hub!

Whether you’re a seasoned gardener, a tech-savvy organizer, or someone who simply wants to make a difference in your community, you’ve found the perfect starting point for your volunteer journey with us. This hub is designed to help us match your unique skills and interests with the areas where you can make the biggest impact. Our garden thrives because of volunteers like you who bring diverse skills and passions to our shared mission. Here are some key areas where we’re actively seeking support:

Experience the deeply satisfying cycle of nurturing plants from seed to harvest! While garden work can be physically demanding, there’s nothing quite like watching your efforts bloom into something beautiful and nourishing for our community. Whether you’re weeding beds under the morning sun, carefully pruning plants for optimal growth, implementing natural pest control methods, feeding our plants with compost and nutrients, or maintaining our garden spaces, every task connects you directly to the life-giving work that sustains our neighborhood families.

Help keep our garden running smoothly behind the scenes through communications, volunteer onboarding, scheduling coordination, managing necessary forms and documentation, and maintaining organizational checklists and systems. We also need help in website maintenance and creating apps that service our different divisions of volunteer teams.

Join our sustainability efforts by helping with composting operations, teaching community members about waste reduction, and maintaining our composting systems that turn kitchen scraps into garden gold. Or maybe you'd prefer to get us going with nature's best composters - earthworms.

Connect with our neighbors through event planning, social media management, community presentations, partnership development with local organizations, and helping welcome new garden families.

Nurture new life in our garden through seed starting, plant care and maintenance, transplanting seedlings, maintaining our nursery areas, and sharing gardening knowledge with other volunteers.

Take care of our volunteer family by coordinating nutrition and hydration for work days, organizing volunteer appreciation events, and ensuring our volunteers feel valued and supported.

Help us gather the tools and supplies that keep our volunteers safe and comfortable, including securing donations of t-shirts, first aid supplies, and other essential volunteer resources. Or maybe you're an educator who would best serve in the area of training and education. If you've got experience in the area of content creation, we need assistance with pre-production and post-production for our YouTube Holy Kitchen Channel and with "John's Chop Shop - Hosted by Irene Edwards" blog on our WordPress site.

The background check with Virtus, (Step 1)is to ensure safety for all volunteers and subsequent people that may be serving around us. We strive to maintain a safe space for all volunteers.

The onboarding process will help us learn about your interests, availability, and skills. An application is provided so you can help us connect you with volunteer opportunities that energize and fulfill you.(Step 2) We believe that when volunteers are matched with roles that suit their talents and passions, everyone benefits – you’ll enjoy your time more, and our garden community grows stronger.   And your training and orientation (Step 3) will be done by our Volunteer Engagement Coordinator or by one of our other tenured volunteers.  This is to familiarize you with your work environment, where to find appropriate forms, tools, first aid kits, sunscreen, water, and where bathrooms are available for those working at our garden site

Ready to get started? Simply click on one of the action buttons above, and after completing steps 1 and 2 of onboarding, we’ll be in touch to discuss the perfect volunteer role for you. Welcome to our garden family – we’re so grateful you’re here!

Together, we’re growing more than vegetables – we’re cultivating community, health, and hope in our neighborhood.