City Roots Volunteer Team

The City Roots Volunteer Team is a project oriented volunteer team at Urban Harvest that goes out and helps community groups start or renovate gardens.

The team provides support for school gardens, community gardens and farm programs and projects. The team provides training, design assistance, project planning and troubleshooting.

The first project the team is working on is the design of the Travis Elementary Outdoor Classroom.  Travis Elementary had a very successful school garden for many years. The original school and project were demolished a couple of years ago to make way for a new school large enough to accommodate the needs of the community. The outdoor classroom is being designed as a collaborative class project by Habitat Highways series students with the input of parents and teachers.

One of the first big community garden projects for the team to tackle will be Urban Harvest’s Teaching Garden at the site of our new office. This project will offer something for everyone. It will serve as an outdoor classroom, a horticulture therapy demonstration project, an example of an intensive garden with a spark park extension accented by art installations, and it will feature advanced Permaculture design concepts. And the new teaching garden will be a beautiful place to gather and celebrate gardening as a community.

Additionally, we would like to get some of our new volunteers out and about to help existing community gardens with renovation projects as well as troubleshooting.

If You'd Like to Volunteer
E-mail the volunteer coordinator and let us know you'd like to join the City Roots Volunteer Team.