This is a monthly volunteer opportunity within the Food and Farming Department at the International Rescue Committee in San Diego.
As a volunteer, you will be helping to maintain the visual aesthetic of our North Park urban farm where we run our Youth FarmWorks program. The FarmWorks program provides a paid work internship for low-income youth (ages 16-20) from the City Heights neighborhood to develop transferable job skills during the internship and, hopefully, land a permanent job immediately afterwards. The IRC operates the Youth FarmWorks urban farm and pop-up farm stand each week as a job platform for the youth interns to develop real-world work experience, while also generating revenue to sustain the program long-term.
Regular Volunteer Tasks Include:
- Weeding the pathways and areas surrounding our raised beds,
- Maintaining the pathways in the garden - i.e. moving mulch in wheelbarrows and laying mulch in pathways,
- Weeding within our raised beds,
- Various other garden activities, as needed.
Possible Volunteer Activities Include (depending on the month):
- Building various garden items with our Youth FarmWorks interns - i.e. scarecrow, community mini-library, planting out a "wheelbarrow garden bed," various other garden activities, as needed.
Event Dates:
- Saturday, September 14th
- Saturday, October 12th
- Saturday, November 9th
Event Time:
- 10:30am-1:30pm - Please come for however long you can. You do not have to stay for the entire 3 hours. Please give us an approximate arrival time and for how long you will be able to stay.
Event Address:
- 3725 30th St, San Diego, CA 92104 (Corner of 30th and Gunn St. in North Park)
Parking:
- Street Parking. There is usually parking available within walking distance. There is also a parking garage one block north of us. We recommend car-pooling whenever possible.
What to Bring:
- Please wear comfortable clothing that you do not mind getting dirty.
- Closed toed shoes are required, we cannot let you work on-site if you are wearing open-toed shoes.
- Water bottle to keep hydrated.
- Sunscreen and any other weather appropriate items.
Come back in a few days for the sign-up link!
Contact Robbie Wilcox for questions regarding this opportunity:
[email protected]
(619) 641-7510 x 263