Care to grow with us? Volunteer.
Our volunteers are the roots that nurture the Springfield Community Gardens' growth. Whether you're part of the neighborhood or simply know a smart move when you see it, volunteering helps create a local, ongoing food source for Springfield families. The project is built to benefit people who invest their own time and effort, and working the gardens puts food on the table—be it your own or, if you've just dropped by to help, your neighbor's.
Garden volunteering is about more than growing food for the community. It's about growing the community itself. By design, community members who help out develop crucial skills. Volunteers learn about healthy eating, quick and easy cooking, and even how to plant budget-saving veggies in their own yards.
Schedule your volunteer date, and we'll grow together.
Want to help sow the seeds? Donate.
Springfield Community Gardens are located in neighborhoods full of dedicated people who keep the healthy food growing. The Gardens build a sense of community pride as neighbors and families come together with kids, parents, and even grandparents working side-by-side. But that work ethic can't pay for the equipment, seeds, soil, and other items it takes to run a successful garden. Thankfully, people like you know that donations help motivated people help themselves.
Donating money when you can or stopping by the Hovey House with gardening equipment lets the Springfield Community Gardens help local families grow their own food and improve neighborhoods that have seen hard times lately. And whether your donation is big as a beanstalk or small as a sprout, it makes a huge difference for us.
Choose your donation, and help Springfield grow stronger.
The Yardstick: A Community Garden Blog
Spring Garden Party April 27 1pm-5pm
April 14, 2013 • Posted by Richard Napieralski
April 27th is Springfield’s big day to kick off the spring season. The Hillbilly Gardeners and the Master Gardeners will be having their annual plant sales, The C-Street Farmer’s Market kicks off the 2013 season, and Grant Beach Neighborhood Association will have their Spring Cleanup that morning. So after you’ve run all over town checking out the plants and produce, tossing the trash, and re-ac… Continue Reading »
MSU Health and Wellness Fair Volunteer Day
April 14, 2013 • Posted by Richard Napieralski
Fifteen MSU students volunteered April 13, 2013 to mark MSU’s Health and Wellness Fair. The main effort was to build and plant an 18’x 20’ strawberry bed with 288 Eversweet strawberry plants. They did landscaping to prepare new ground on the upper west side of the garden. We planted two American wild plum trees near the southern walkway. One bed was cleared and planted with 21 Pink Flamingo Sw… Continue Reading »
Delta Zeta/Tau Kappa Epsilon Volunteer Service Hours
April 8, 2013 • Posted by Richard Napieralski
Forty five MSU Students from DZ and TKE pitched in and made massive progress Sunday, April 7th! 10 Hazelnut tree were planted, 3 new 4x10 ft beds laid, and hundreds more onions and garlics set. We also made a straw bale "planter" demonstration, and planted 40 Ozark Beauty strawberry plants. The grounds now sport two giant "mushrooms" for general use in the garden and as set pieces for the "Midsum… Continue Reading »