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Volunteers are needed as:
Assistant Instructors: Tasks include staffing a learning station and teaching its curriculum to visiting groups; leading groups and teaching the assigned curriculum at various learning stations.
Field Trip Guides: Tasks include leading groups to various farm sites and providing them with introductory information about the farm and its components.
Education Garden Assistants: Tasks include weeding, planting, harvesting, etc.
Spring maintenance: Tasks include trail maintenance, grounds clearing, and paiting.
Event Assistants: Tasks include taking tickets or money, signing up visitors, providing information, parking cars, serving food, setting up, cleaning up, etc.
Bulk Mailing Assistants: Tasks include folding, labeling, stuffing, sorting and stamping Friends' mailings such as the quarterly newsletter.
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Volunteers who work 2 or more hours a week for at least a month are eligible for a 20% reduction in the price for the first $20 in fresh produce purchases at the farm stand per week.
Volunteers receive training and background knowledge in key topics taught to program participants which include plants, soil, compost, farm animals and their shelters, identification of vegetables, mechanics of farming (i.e. weeding, hoeing, planting seeds, transplanting, harvesting, etc.), strategies organic farmers use to avoid using pesticides and herbicides, relationship of the surrounding natural world to the organic farm, and so forth.
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