Intervale Center
Gardening
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Year Round
The Intervale Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and for over 30 years, it has led a community food revolution that sustains farms, land, and people. They have pioneered farm and food innovations in local food development, commercial composting, riparian restoration, farm business support, gleaning and food hub development.
Job Summary
- Trail Stewardship
- Please attend an in-person orientation to steward year round if you wish. Volunteer while you recreate! Duties include picking up light litter, reporting on issues on an app, removing invasive species along trails, and being a friendly, helping and welcoming presence. Register to be a trail steward here.
- Land Stewardship
- Help steward the 360 acres owned and managed by the Intervale Center. Land stewardship volunteer opportunities include: habitat stewardship and restoration plantings, planting and maintaining perennial food bearing plants and fungi, and removing non-native invasive plants. Sign up here.
- Intervale Conservation Nursery
- Help the Intervale Conservation Nursery (ICN) prepare the next generation of trees and shrubs for conservation! Volunteers will be helping to propagate both cuttings and seed in the greenhouse, which includes prepping soil trays, sowing seeds, and sticking cuttings into the tubes. Sign up here.
- Fair Share Support
- Help run the free weekly CSA program, Fair Share. Volunteers will help move and unload produce, help Fair Share members pick up their veggies, answer questions, wash totes and more. Volunteers needed from July to October. Sign up here.
- Gleaning
- Help harvest surplus produce in farmers’ fields! The produce will be distributed through their weekly Fair Share CSA to eligible community members at no cost. Please make sure to check the time and location of this volunteer opportunity, as they also glean at neighboring farms outside of the Intervale. Volunteers needed July through October. Sign up here.
- People’s Farm & Garden
- The People’s Farm is a 1.5-acre community-powered farm in Burlington's Intervale working to grow vegetables for our local charitable food system. The farm is for volunteers to build relationships, feed their neighbors, and learn growing skills. Typical tasks include transplanting, weeding, harvesting, and other field tasks. Sign up here.
Visit the Intervale's volunteer page to learn more about how to get involved.
Contact Info
Mia Handte-Reinecker: mia@intervale.org
