Volunteer Opportunities at the Farm
If you love eating fresh food grown locally and you wish our campus dining halls served more of it, come out to the farm and help us garden and harvest vegetables, herbs and greens from University Farm as we finish our second growing season. We grow food all year round!
Farm Horticulturist Chris Bond is looking for student volunteers to help with the program during weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Help is needed for greenhouse work, maintenance tasks and harvesting produce. Please e-mail Chris if you are available to help out. If you are not able to drive to the farm or carpool with other volunteers, please let us know.
In 2011, nearly 300 volunteers donated more than 1,000 hours of their time. This was 25% of the total labor required for the 2011 growing season. These volunteers assisted with:
- working with seedlings, transplants
- greenhouse work
- planting and watering
- planting a new herb garden
- crop and garden maintenance
- harvesting crops
- food storage prep
- working with compost
- working on the hoophouse and new planting areas
- learning about the irrigation system
- weeding
- building fences and digging post holes
- volunteering for the Farm Harvest Festival
- working on grape arbor restoration at Valley Ridge Farm
- working on root cellar restoration
- constructing beehives for 2011 honey production
- deer fence construction
We appreciate your support of the Farm Food Program! We look forward to seeing you at our farm garden events. If you have any questions, please e-mail Dr. Ana Locci, Farm Director; or call the farm office at 216.368.0274.
A Special Thanks
Farm administrators would like to thank all of the first-year students from the class of 2014 and 2015 who came to the farm on their Welcome Days service day in August 2010 and 2011. We also want to thank those volunteers who worked with us through the Center for Civic Engagement & Learning during Saturdays of Service as well as all of the individual students, staff, alum and fraternities and sororities who come to volunteer at the farm throughout the year.
Volunteering at the University Farm helped take our organization to a new level. Spending time giving back to the university we love strengthened the bonds between our members. We left with a greater sense of unity as an organization and purpose as members of the Case community.
Mara Gallagher, CWRU Residence Hall Association