Interested in volunteering, donating resources, hosting a workshop, or otherwise lending a hand at the Boone Street Garden? Here's how you can help!
A donate button is coming soon! We are working out the banking details.
Send us an email boone.street.farm@gmail.com and we will be sure to email you about upcoming workshops, volunteer days, produce availability, and more! We promise not to clog your inbox.
Volunteer Skills Wishlist
Lend a hand and take home some produce if it is available that day!
Weeding, watering, trash cleanup, mowing, and other lot maintenance
Design work for the website, free recipe flyers, labels, signage, etc.
Carpentry: community benches and tables, trellises, garden bed repair, produce stand
Workshops for Kids
Funding!
We will most likely begin working outside in the garden around late March.
See below for the #1 type of funding we are interested in and how we want to spend it.
A few photos and wishlist of items:
More photos of the garden are posted in the Boone Street link at the top of the page, along with a chronological list of posts about our first year.
Some helpers at one of our cleanup days last year!
Worm composting workshop we hosted as part of the Greenhorns conference last September:
The neighborhood kids helping Mr. Lowell and our farm assistant Baba mix concrete to put up the sign at our community garden:
Items Wishlist
Folding tables and chairs
Plastic garden tools for kids
Lumber and chicken wire
*will post more as the need arises, stay tuned!*
Our #1 wishlist item right now is a salary for at least one of us to become a part or full time paid worker at the garden.
It has become impossible to sustain the level of work needed to grow enough food to be available to the neighborhood, maintain the lot, and provide community programming while also working a full time day job.
Our current goal is to become at least partially self-supporting by earning $1000 per month in profit by selling produce and other goods and services, hosting workshops, and doing other programming to help us become a sustainable project. As our project grows, we hope to raise the amount we are able to earn so that this garden can become an enduring, independent project. Until our market begins, we will continue to volunteer our time.
What do we need this funding for? There are many neighborhood kids who visit the garden, and we hope to be able to spend time with them teaching about science, social skills, and hands-on skills through the garden. On a practical level, we hope to provide a space for students to do their service learning hours required by the Baltimore City public school system. We have learned that we need to have a regular market day to make it easier for people to access the fresh produce we grow, which also will require more regular staffing to run the market and grow enough produce for the market.
We also hope to grow our community programming such as the block party we hosted last year, free gardening workshops and plant giveaways, a rain garden and water quality educational event we hope to host this March in conjunction with Blue Water Baltimore, and more!
We can't express enough how much all of your support, interest, and excitement has meant to us so far. Thank you all so much!
