COMMUNITY HARVEST
A collaborative initiative to help grow food for community.
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Register for Volunteer Alerts
Are you interested in getting outside, volunteering at farms & gardens, and helping grow/harvest food for community?
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Host Volunteers
Are you a farmer, rancher, gardener or seed-saver interested in inviting volunteers to help grow or glean local food at your farm/garden?
2024 OPPORTUNITIES
More opportunities will emerge as soils thaw — check back soon!
To receive alerts for new offerings or short-notice gleaning opportunities, register to receive volunteer alerts.
2024 Community Spring Clean-up
Friday, April 26, 2024
9am - 1pm Volunteer → sign up
8:30am check-in at the Warming Center. Barbecue to follow.
If you have them, please bring: rakes, thick work gloves, heavy-duty garbage bags, trucks. HRDC will have a limited supply as well.
hosts: Cally Ward, Gallatin Valley Food Bank, and HRDC Staff
Amaltheia Organic Dairy
Sundays → 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)
Host: Amaltheia Organic Dairy. Questions: learn more
Gleaning Events
TBA → REGISTER to receive alerts
Help glean crops for Gallatin Valley Food Bank.
Hosts: to be announced as opportunity ripens
Story Mill Community Garden & Food Forest
May-September → sign up via HRDC (check for updates)
NEW: Story Mill will be adding a green house this year!
Check back for building and gardening volunteer opportunities.
GOAL: Cultivate Story Mill Community Garden crops for GVFB and support the growth of Story Mill Food Forest for future generations.
Host: Cally Ward and interns, Gallatin Valley Food Bank (GVFB)
Towne’s Harvest Garden
TBD
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 farmers, garden managers, and neighbors.
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Invite connection and come together — because community matters!