Opportunities From: Volunteers United

Help our pollinator garden thrive by removing undesirable weeds and invasive species! Your attention to this area assists the pollination of our produce and allows us to focus on cultivating our crops. 

Keep VGI looking beautiful and productive by trimming grass and weeds about once a week on the farm and in the office space's backyard. During winter months clear snow from the sidewalk and parking area at the office building and outside of the farm.

Come to the urban farm on Friday mornings to harvest produce for the weekly Friday FarmStands! Harvest produce and assist with weighing and washing as we set up our distribution table.

Run the weekly Friday FarmStand from 12-3pm outside of the VGI Community Room! Collect patron information for database keeping and grant writing and reporting. Have conversations with patrons about how they might try a new recipe with a produce item, tell them about upcoming events, and make a positive impact on their day!

Assist with creating and editing social media posts for Instagram and Facebook! Have more creation skills like videography that you would like to contribute? Let us know!

VGI is looking for someone with photography experience to take photos of our 1.5 acre farm, Farmhouse, and community events! This volunteer can be a student, professional, or just have lots of experience with photography, and is a great opportunity to hone your skills and practice different types of photography. Photos will be used in our outreach and marketing materials, grant writing, and general use with credit going out to you! Extremely flexible, as you can come for a single event, come on your own to photograph the farm, or come more regularly!

2026 Events & Programs:

Farm Volunteer Days (varies, typically Tuesdays and Thursdays)

Friday FarmStand (Fridays, July 10th - Oct, 12-3pm)

Community Harvest Day (August 19th, 10am-5pm)

Pickling Class (August 22nd, 10am-12pm)

Soil Health & Agroforestry Class with Michael Fields Agricultural Institute (September 14th, 10am-1pm)

Cooking Class with Chef Arty (September 16th, 5:30-7:30pm)

Dehydrating Class (September 26th, 10am-12pm)

Elderberry Workshop (October 10th, 10am-12pm)

3rd Annual Gather & Gobble (November 21st, time TBD)

If you are interested in photographing any of these classes or events for us, please reach out to chlo@victorygardeninitiative.org!

Victory Garden Initiative is approaching 20 years as an organization in 2028! As you can imagine, we have boxes and boxes of files from over the years that could use digitizing and categorizing. Take your skills and passion a step further and help us put together a written history of VGI to reflect on and celebrate the continuous growth!

Join us at our 1.5 acre urban farm for fun day getting your hands dirty as you help us care for our crops. You'll help with various daily activities such as composting food waste, watering crops, pulling weeds, harvesting produce, planting seeds, digging, mulching and so much more!

A Farm Leader will be present at the time of your shift to provide you with objectives and tasks that are to be completed during your volunteer shift.

We welcome volunteers of all ages, but ask that those under the age of 18 be accompanied by an adult.

The Farm is also a great place for volunteer groups!

Drop-in volunteer days are Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30am - 2pm. We have some flexibility for hours outside of this range as well, so feel free to sign up and chat with us!

Put your construction skills to good use! You can help around our new Farmhouse on projects such as building/installing shelving units and assisting with renovation of our event and community kitchen space, or you can join us in constructing raised garden beds and signs for our annual garden blitz event, or even installing rain water catchment systems at the farm!

Victory Garden Initiative builds communities that grow their own food to create a community-based, socially just, environmentally sustainable, and nutritious food system for all! If you are a skilled carpenter, electrician, plumber, mason, or any number of other fields we could really use your help in literally building our Urban Farm Campus!

In 2018 we purchased a building across the street from our 1.5 acre farm and began renovations to turn it into our Farmhouse that would house our offices, an event and education space, a community kitchen, and root cellar. This space will be a community gathering space for the community for people to come together and learn how to grow good food, cook good food, and solve issues facing their neighborhood. We're proud to say that we are over halfway to that dream! We've moved into the office space and completed the education and event space. But we still have a long way to go...we're in the process of getting this old building completely up to code, installing the community kitchen, and getting the office space fully functional for our staff and volunteers. A skilled laborer would really be helpful in all the small tasks (hmm, we could really use shelving units for our historical files!) as well as the opportunity to get involved in the bigger visioning and construction of the kitchen! 

Check out some awesome before and after images below! Much of this was done with the help of skilled volunteers -- from a muralist who donated her talents, to a carpenter who helped make the floor structurally sound, to everyday volunteers who helped paint some base coats! What will YOU do?!

Contact chlo@victorygardeninitiative.org for more information!