Opportunity Details
Planting for Pollinators! Chimborazo Playground Community Garden
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Brief Organizational Description: Richmond Grows Gardens, a program through the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Community Facilities, provides city-owned parcels for community-led agriculture and horticulture projects as well as programming support in order to cultivate green spaces for growing food, community, and environmental resilience. Chimborazo Playground Community Garden has 33 raised beds available for nearby families to raise food and flowers for their households; surplus produce is donated to local organizations to help feed other families throughout the city. Additionally, the nonprofit Blue Sky recently began a program that brings children and young adults who don’t otherwise have access to arable green space to the garden to tend a collective plot. Visitors to the garden, with its abundance of vegetables and flowers, enjoy wandering through the maze of plots, and the park is often the temporary home to all manner of insects, reptiles, and small mammals. A pollinator garden and native bee box at the front of the park help sustain local populations of beneficial insects, and several fruit trees, gifts from Courtney Mailley, the founder of Blue Bee Cider, round out the plantings. The garden is also now a drop-off site for the City of Richmond’s new community composting program, where residents can compost perishable household refuse. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation is a non-profit environmental organization that focuses on the conservation of invertebrates considered to be essential to biological diversity and ecosystem health.
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities: Planting & mulching pollinator beds at the entrance of the community garden.
Time Commitment: 2 hour commitment would be perfered but you're welcome to stay the whole time 8am-2pm. 8am - 10am 10am-12pm 12pm-2pm
Location: 3000 E Grace St, Richmond, Va 23223
Additonal Notes: Wear close-toe shoes & bring a personal water bottle. We will have a large jug of water on site. Please keep in mind there are no public restrooms. |
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Age Minimum (with Adult): 5+, Minimum Age:15+, Court Ordered Volunteer - Allowed
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