Calthorpe Community Garden
We are a 1.2 acre community garden near Kings Cross. We provide a wide range of services for local people including volunteering opportunities in our garden and food growing/closed loop project, early years, weekend activities for young people and a range of educational projects throughout the year.
Description
We would love to have your help during our social gardening and food growing sessions on Wednesdays and Fridays. During these sessions, we focus our efforts on growing food that we use in our kitchen for our community lunches and cookery classes as part of our closed loop food system. We also undertake other seasonal gardening tasks as required.
We are searching for volunteers interested in sustainability, closed loop systems, and/or gardening and food growing, who are hands-on, good team-players and passionate about the community to work with us.
Duties
- Gardening tasks to facilitate food growth
- Keeping and maintaining the processing and composting facilities tidy and in good working order.
- Upholding the organisation’s values
- Understanding your role and responsibilities as well as the rules and safety regulations of the organisation.
- Completing the relevant training and asking questions if you are uncertain about anything.
- Completing all duties assigned by the supervisor and reporting any issues immediately.
- Observing the rules and safety regulations of the organisation while carrying out tasks.
- Making recommendations for improvement where feasible and appropriate
Time commitment
Our social gardening sessions where we do most of our food growing usually run on Wednesdays from 1.30pm to 3pm and Fridays from 11.00pm to 1.00pm We ask for a minimum commitment of 2 months.