Are you an Edna Maguire parent Interested in volunteering in the garden? Here are ways that you can become involved:

Friends of the Garden (FOG): Volunteers attend a monthly meeting to brainstorm and discuss ideas to continue the garden's improvement.

Garden parents: Take the children to the garden once a week as part of their classroom curriculum. To be coordinated with the Edna Maguire teachers in the fall. We hope to have at least two garden parents per class. There will be weekly instructions provided about tasks and activities for the garden visits. Look for "garden volunteer" positions on the sign-up sheets for classroom volunteers.

Hands-on Gardening: Gardening volunteers get down and dirty in the garden. Adopt an area (citrus trees, back fence, succulents, greenhouse, orchard, compost area, literature garden, butterfly garden, arbor, etc.) and pull the weeds, mulch the area and add new plants.

Compost Volunteer: Give the compost an occasional pitchfork turning and check to make sure the worm bin is staying balanced.

Curriculum Designer: A parent to work with teachers on lesson plans that integrate the garden into the California standards for each grade level.

Numerous jobs that can be performed remotely: Supply purchaser; special events coordinator; fundraising coordinator; grant coordinator; community sponsor coordinator; and public relations coordinator.

For more information, contact the garden volunteer coordinator, Saor Stetler:

Saor E. Stetler
sstetler@earthlink.net
415-388-8106 home
415-699-3025 cell

Posted by Saor Stetler on August 8