Volunteers
Volunteers are the heart of Growing to Give. We have a volunteer governing board and two volunteer co-directors. We rely on field volunteers to help us plant, weed, and all manner of other farm tasks. We partner with the Merrymeeting Gleaners, the Androscoggin Gleaners, and the Cumberland County Gleaners to harvest and deliver food. Volunteers also help with events, board committee work, and fundraising.
In addition, larger groups from schools, churches, and other organizations come periodically to help with larger projects. In 2018 we had groups from:
- All Saint’s Parrish Sunday School
- Bowdoin College
- Cheverus High School
- Cooperative Extension Master Gardener’s class participants
- Frolic Ultimate Women’s Frisbee Team
- Harpswell Coastal Academy
- Maine Coast Waldorf School
- Saint Mary’s Nutrition Center’s Teen Group