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GARDEN VOLUNTEER SURVEY
1. Name, Contact Info, child’s grade
2. I am available 1. During School hours 2. Only weekends or after school 3. Over the summer and during vacations
3. I would like to help out: 1. I would like to have role in planning and organizing gardens and landscape projects at WHS
2. Regular classroom help (1hr /once a week help teachers with garden related project)
3. Seasonal workdays- attend weekend or afterschool parent work days
4. Fundraising, grant writing , inkind requests from donors, helping with Plant Sale, Bulb Sale or International Day Harvest Feast
5. I am interested in healthy food and cooking in classrooms
4. I am primarily interested in Veggie Garden activities 1. At K2, 2. At 3-8 3. Either Site
5. I am primarily interested in Native Habitats: Butterfly gardens at K-2, Audubon Schoolyard Habitat (3-8)
6. I have another garden/environmental education idea or opportunity I would like to share with WHS
Specific Opportunities:
1. I can help out with placing orders for tools and supplies (now)
2. I can help with seed starting activities in classrooms (now)
3. I can help with organizing Spring Fair Native Plant and Veggie Start Sale (Orders in early April, Sale on May 11th)
4. I can help with Garden Planting Activities (week of April 22-26)
5. I can help with Butterfly Garden Planting and Native Habitat Planting and Spring Clean up Activities(week of April 29-May 3)
6. I can help with URI tree planting May 3rd
7. I would like to be on Stewardship Committee for Audubon Wildlife Habitat
8. I would like to work with IRIS (integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services) in the collaborative peace garden and programming project.
Spring 2013
Worthington Hooker School Gardens Parent Group
Detailed Volunteer Opportunities-DRAFT
Title
Job Description
School Garden
Parent
Coordinators
K-2
Coordinator
Primary liaison with school, Board of Ed, Community Partners and PTA
3-8
Coordinator
Recruit parent involvement for 3-8 classes. Liaise with class teachers and
admin and Common Ground to identify areas for parent involvement. Help
Organize work days.
Procurement
and Budget
SchoolYard
Habitat
Stewardship
Committee
Track grant awards donations and expenses. Coordinate with teachers,
grant writers and PTA treasurer.
Work with URI and Board of Ed, SCGR and AUDUBON CT as well as School
on native tree and landscape installation on school grounds. Organize
parent volunteers for helping prepare planting areas and maintenance
Curriculum
Support
Collect information and maintain binder with resources for teachers to
incorporate garden activities into class rooms. Coordinate with teachers in
identifying opportunities and projects. Coordinate with grant writers
Soils Testing +
Prep
Assist with soil testing for nutrients (with Common Ground and Conn Ag
station). Organize compost delivery (free from Common Ground if we pick
it up) Helpful to have pickup truck. Work with compost coordinator for
sustainable soil health.
Volunteers to help Common Ground crew and students build and install
beds at both schools and install soil in built in planters
Fall and
early
spring
Organize parent volunteers to do weekly watering and maintenance over
the summer and school vacations as necessary. Liaise with School facilities
for access to water and tool storage.
Help teachers with class activities in the garden
Anyone with garden experience, skills, inspirations is welcome to help
anytime
Assist teachers with classroom cooking projects. Hel p Organize
Summer
Garden
InstallationBed Building
Summer Care
Coordinator
Class helpers
Garden skills
Food and
Recruit parent involvement for K-2 classes. Liaise with class teachers and
admin and Common Ground to identify areas for parent involvement. Help
organize work days.
Time
Frame
Year
Round
School
year.
Weekly in
planting
season
Fall And
Spring
Hrs
Name
Contact
School /Community
Partner Liason
Contact
comments
Nutrition
Compost
Sustainable
MrethodsFUNDRAISING
SPRING FAIR
PLANT SALE
FALL BULB
AND
PERRENIAL
SALE
HARVEST
FESTIVAL
International Day Harvest Feast (October 2014)
Research and help implement composting systems
Help research and implement rain barrels,