PLANT-GROW-SHAREVolunteer Registration Form

CANDO welcomes you to be a PLANT-GROW-SHARE & The Little Free Farmers Volunteer. We know you are either a passionate gardener yourself, someone that feels great pleasure in helping other in the community …or both. We have a great list of volunteer positions for you to choose from. Do what you love and support others who are just beginning their gardens this year. Select how you wish to volunteer from the list of available choices below and see how we can support you with materials and education you need to succeed in your own garden (see List of Benefits). If you are not planning to garden this year, you are still more than welcome to support our project however you see fit!

We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors.

That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously.

(Grace Lee Boggs)

Personal Information

________________________________________________________________ _____________First Name Last Name Date

________________________________________________________________ Street Address Apt. #

________________________________________________________________City State Zip

_______________________________ ______________________________Home Number Cell Number

________________________________________________________________ EmailDo you prefer other ways of communication?

Facebook ____ Text message____ Other______________________________________

Total number in household (adults, children and seniors) _________

Number of children living at home (17 and under) _________

Number of seniors in the household (65 and older) _________

To complete this registration, you need to do two things:

1- Choose your benefit/s2- Choose your volunteer position/s

LIST OF BENEFITS:

❏ Vegetable Plants: organic, and grown in a greenhouse

❏ Seeds: organic seeds (From Seed Savers Exchange)

❏ Access to Gardening Classes with Master Gardeners: This are 6 monthly classes offer at Sabathani Community Garden PGS Plot.

LIST OF VOLUNTEER POSITIONS:

❏ Help with PGS 2016 New Participants Info/Registration Day: (3 hours)Sat. April 15st (10am). Help with registration forms, greet at door, set up of room, and clean up. We specially need someone to interpret for Spanish speaking families, and help answer questions at the end of presentation.

❏ High Raised Bed Making Workshop: (4 hours)Sat. April 29th (9:00am). We will build raised beds for people with mobility disabilities. Basic carpentry skills preferred.

❏ Raised Bed Making Workshop: (4 hours)Sat. April 29th (9:00am). We will build raised beds for new PGS families. You can learn as you volunteer, consider this option if you want to learn how to build your own raised bed.

❏ Raised Bed Installation (4.5 hours)Sat. May 6th (8:30am-1:00pm). Light breakfast and lunch. You would particularly enjoy this volunteer position if you like outdoor physical work with a great group of volunteer, shoveling rich soil into raised beds, and finally look forward to a rewarding lunch with like minded people provided at 1pm.

❏ Plant Distribution (3 hours)May 12th (5:30-8:30pm). Help prepare boxes with a variety of plants and seeds for participants and volunteers to pick up for their gardens.

❏ Plant Distribution (3 hours)May 13th (3:00-6:00pm). Help during plant distribution, and stick around when we are done to help clean up when event is done. Greeting at entrance, explain flow of event to participants.

❏ Grow Food at PGS Plot (min. 3 hours and as many hours as you want, between April-September). Flexible days/times. You will determine days/times with Plot Coordinator. In this plot we grow food for our project, to be distributed for free in the Little Free Farmers Market. You can help attend the plot at Sabathani by weeding, watering, natural pest control, etc.

❏ Administrative (Volunteer to help create flyers, improve website, update Facebook page, database, create translations into Spanish or Somali, and/ or specific research as arrange with project coordinator, etc).

❏ Join the Core Team (We will have 6 meetings in 2017- April-September). Join to help with the decision making and project development.

❏ Bike/Harvest/Attend Little Free Farmers Market.

Saturday from 8:30-12:30pm (4 hours)Please mark you preferred day (1), second choice (2) third choice (3) and how many session you wish to join.

Free Market Wk. 1- July.22Free Market Wk. 2- July.29Free Market Wk. 3- Aug..5Free Market Wk. 4- Aug.12

Free Market Wk 5- Aug.19Free Market Wk. 6- Aug.26Free Market Wk. 7- Sep. 2Free Market Wk. 8- Sep. 9Free Market Wk. 9- Sep.16 Free Market Wk.10- Sep.23

Total number of sessions I wish to volunteer for: __________

By signing this form I am affirming that all of the information I provided is accurate and up to date; and that I agree to uphold my volunteer commitments as identified above. Additionally, I understand that photographers will be taking photos of PGS events this year. By signing this form, I give consent for my photo to be taken while I’m participating/volunteering at any of the PGS events and understand that the photos may be used to help PGS continue spreading the word about this project through newsletters, Facebook, website, and other forms of publicity, and grant writing.

______________________________________________________________________________________ SIGNATURE OF APPLICANT DATE SIGNED

CANDO, PLANT-GROW-SHARE 3736 Chicago Ave. S Mpls. MN 55407

Contact Fernanda Sequeiros with any questions 612.315.1501 fernanda@thecentralneighborhood.com