Volunteer Service

Community Farms Outreach and Waltham Fields Community Farm rely upon volunteer labor to further our mission of reclaiming farmland, relieving hunger in our communities and reconnecting people with the knowledge of sustainable food production. Thousands of hours are donated every year by individuals, families and groups who plant, weed, and harvest vegetables, or help to run our organization.

We encourage both individuals and groups to come help out on the farm.
Individual Volunteers
Group Volunteers

Individual and Family Volunteers

Drop in hours for farm work vary by the season. Individual volunteers are welcome to meet our staff at the Gathering Spot - a big white tent, located behind the red brick building at the Field Station, at the times below to help plant, transplant, weed, harvest or participate in other farm related tasks. Children of any age are welcome with adult supervision.

Summer Volunteer Drop-In Hours for Families and Individuals are currently...

• Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Please arrive promptly at 9 am. You may stay up to until noon (it's ok to leave early but we need you to arrive at the beginning for directions). Meet at the "gathering spot - the big white tent" and be ready to work!

We also welcome individual students looking to fulfill community service hours. Please contact the volunteer coordinator, volunteer@communityfarms.org, to set up a volunteer schedule.

Non fieldwork volunteer opportunities are available year round. Please email volunteer@communityfarms.org if you would like to know more about current opportunities.

Group Volunteers

Waltham Fields Community Farms welcomes group volunteers from schools, businesses, religious congregations and other organizations. Groups begin to work on the farm in early May and continue working through mid-October. The tasks that groups perform are specific to the day and also the time of season they visit, but most often include transplanting, weeding, mulching, and harvesting crops, as well as general farm tasks that benefit from lots of hands. If you would like to schedule a group volunteer day at Waltham Fields Community Farm please call the farm office at 781-899-2403 x1 or email: volunteer@communityfarms.org

We also accept school groups for volunteer service-learning opportunities.

Thank You

Thanks again to all of our 2007 volunteers! We would like to thank all the volunteers who donated their time and labor to the farm. All told, we had more than 3,500 hours contributed to the farm. We loved working with all of the wonderful individuals and groups who came out to help, including the following groups:

 

A-OK Homeschool Cooperative Beaver Country Day School Belmont High School Brandeis University Boston University Chapel Hill Chauncy Hall Gann Academy The George School (Newtown, Pennsylvania) The Lexington Waldorf School The Meadowbrook School Prospect Hill Academy Charter School The Waltham Family School Wellesley College Boston Cares MAB Works Protestant Guild Single Volunteers of Boston Young Alumni Volunteer Association (YAVA)

Beth El Temple Combined Jewish Philanthropies Edina Lutheran Church (Edina, Minnesota) The First Church of Belmont Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston Jewish Community Centers of New York Temple Beth Elohim Temple Aliyah Temple Isaiah The Chapel (Akron, Ohio) Temple Beth Avodah Body and Soul Magazine Cisco Systems Earth Inc. Harpoon Brewery S.R. Weiner and Associates Wilmer Hail.