Volunteer

Volunteer with Groundwork Somerville!

Looking for a meaningful way to volunteer in your local community this year? Join us! This is a great opportunity to: connect with your local community, get outside to help grow food, and take action on the values you care about! Sign up for our current volunteer opportunities below! You can also fill out this form to tell us about the specific skills and contributions you'd like to offer.

Current Volunteer Opportunities

*Open Volunteer Hours*

The farm is open to volunteers every Thursday from 5-7 p.m., March through August. We will also hold Saturday volunteer hours from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on August 5 and August 19.

Sign up for our mailing list below for more opportunities, or simply show up on these days to 138 South St. Somerville to help plant, harvest, learn to grow your own food, and take some produce home. We hope to see you there!

Harvest Festival Volunteers

We are looking for volunteers to help at our Harvest Festival on August 27! We can use help with running stations (activities of popcorn making and salsa making) as well as setup and cleanup. All volunteers who run a station for 2 hours will receive free drinks from Portico Brewery. Sign up with this form.

School Garden Maintenance

We are excited to start planting in Healey's new garden space and continue to tend the 7 other school gardens! We need your help to water, weed, and tend these garden spaces starting in April. If you're interested, please fill out the interest form here.

South St. Farm & Produce Delivery

We are excited for the 2023 season at Somerville's only urban farm! Join us in growing food, engaging youth at the farm, cultivating our pollinator garden, and delivering produce to our food access partners.

Facilitate a Community Workshop

This year, we plan to host a handful of community-wide workshops focused on the themes of food & farming, environment, and climate, and sustainability. We are looking for guest-presenters interested in facilitating a 30min-1hr workshop in an area of your expertise! This could involve a pickling demonstration, lecture on red lining & climate change, medicinal herbs, mushroom farming, etc. These workshops will be sliding-scale with a small stipend for guest presenters. If you are interested and have knowledge and skills to share, please fill out this form!