COMMUNITY HARVEST
A collaborative initiative to help grow and harvest local foods.
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Volunteers
Are you interested in getting outside, volunteering at farms & gardens, and helping grow/harvest food for community?
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Landowners + Managers
Are you a farmer, rancher, gardener, seed-saver or habitat manager seeking help or offering surplus?
2025 VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
“Grow a Row”
Share your harvest.
Fresh produce is not always accessible to those on tight budgets, and contributing extra locally grown produce to the Gallatin Valley Food Bank (GVFB) is a tangible way to help increase access to fresh, quality foods.
Donations accepted Monday-Thursday 9am–4pm and Friday 9am-12pm at HRDC Market Place (206 E Griffin Dr.)
LearnMore
Amaltheia Organic Dairy
Sundays 1-4pm → sign up via Amaltheia
Volunteers work for the vegetable side of the farm, not the dairy, and receive a box of vegetables at the end of their shift.
ROOT HARVEST: October (dates tbd)
Chance Farm Work Trade
consistent 4 hour shifts → sign up via Chance Farm
Whether you are a seasoned farmer or a novice with a budding interest, Chance Farm invites you to be a part of their work trade program. Various shifts available. If these hours do not fit into your schedule but you are still interested in a work trade, please reach out with a consistent 4 hour shift that does!
Please only apply if you are able to consistently show up for the majority of your shifts, June - September.
Story Mill Community Garden & Food Forest
May - September: sign up
Help start seeds, prepare beds, plant, water, and harvest. When there is enough produce, you can take some home too!
Backyard Blend • two weeks in late Sept-Oct (dates TBA)
Have surplus crabapples, pears, apples?
Lockhorn Cider House accepts cider-quality fruit. PLEASE: no sticks, mud, grass, mold, or mush!
Backyard Blend
Community Apple Harvest
Keep apples from going to waste or attracting bears!
On 9/21/2024, Gallatin Valley Food Bank (GVFB) and partners — Open & Local, Valley of the Flowers, Lockhorn Cider, and passionate community members — harvested fruit from sites across our community, rescuing over 375 pounds.
• The best apples: got eaten!
• Cider apples: became Lockhorn Cider’s Backyard Blend.
The rest: became pig feed or compost….
Interested in future harvest events? Register:
→ have apples: Landowner or Manager
→ want to help harvest: Volunteer
PARTNERS
Community Harvest is a collaborative initiative facilitated by the Open & Local Coalition on behalf of our partners and the people they serve.
COLLABORATION
The Community Harvest collaborative initiative grew from Gallatin Valley Botanical’s work with Happel Family Farm, Gallatin Valley Food Bank, Gallatin Valley Land Trust and others in 2020, growing carrots for vulnerable members of our community: Bozeman food bank seeks volunteers to harvest donated carrots.
Through this project, 200+ volunteers donated over 1,130 hours, and Gallatin Valley Botanical was able to donate 11,000# of carrots to Gallatin Valley Food Bank — roughly 725# of carrots per week from November 2020—February 2021.
GOALS
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Help those growing local food when extra hands are needed.
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Offer opportunities to learn and work alongside others.
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Make locally grown, fresh foods more accessible to all.