United Therapeutics
This past Wednesday, 27 friends from United Therapeutics came and worked side-by-side with us! They helped plant sweet potatoes; harvest spring onions; install drip tape irrigation; weed our peppers, eggplants, and tomatoes; and more. Thank you, United Therapeutics!
St. Andrew’s Episcopal School Student Volunteers
A small group of student volunteers from St. Andrew’s Episcopal School are spending three weeks at Red Wiggler, and they’ll be here through the end of next week. We love sharing what we do with students and having them work with our team members. Last week the students did a LOT of weeding and learned […]
2022 Alternative Spring Break
We welcomed several Montgomery County Public School high schoolers during the week of April 11, 2022 for Alternative Spring Break! It was a beautiful and busy week, and students assisted with lots of different projects, including planting onions, parsley, broccoli, and swiss chard; preparing beds for more transplanting; and transferring baby tomato, pepper, and eggplant […]
Starbucks Volunteer Day
Yesterday (Tuesday, 4/19/2022), we had a volunteer crew from Starbucks! Even though it was quite windy and cold, we ended up harvesting an amazing 47 pounds of kale and 15 pounds of pea shoots for donation!! Thank you so much to Starbucks for joining us and for all the great help!! [spacer height=”20px”]
Volunteer Highlight: Steve Charles and the Importance of Our Deer Fence
Our Deer Fence! As a Certified Organic farm, our deer fence is critical to protecting our fields and vegetables from deer and other wild animals including raccoons, fox, and possums. Without the deer fence, our crops would be an open buffet to wildlife, and the deer would cause great destruction and could spread Lyme disease […]
Program Spotlight: Volunteer-in-Training Program Fall 2021
This past fall at Red Wiggler, we brought back the Volunteer-in-Training (VIT) Program to accommodate adults and high school-aged students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) who seek a low-risk introduction to volunteering on the farm. The end goal of the VIT program is to give participants the tools to work successfully as individual volunteers […]
The Potomac School: October 2021
A BIG THANK YOU to The Potomac School students and teachers who volunteered alongside our Grower staff and volunteers on Wednesday, October 13, 2021 and Wednesday, October 20, 2021! They were the 2nd and 3rd volunteer groups from The Potomac School this fall. The October 13th group helped us prepare for winter by cleaning-up dead […]
Volunteer Spotlight: Super Volunteers
While hosting the 2018 Mid-Atlantic Care Farming Summit we were introduced to the term “super volunteers” — those regular faithful volunteers who continue year after year. We decided it was a great way to describe our volunteers who join us each week all season long, for multiple seasons. These folks dedicate their time and energy […]
Volunteer Spotlight: Gleaning for a Good Cause
On August 20th, 2018 we invited a group of volunteers to our site at Ovid Hazen Wells Park to glean sweet potato greens. This project was a partnership between Community Food Rescue, University of Maryland Extension, School of Supplementary Nutrition Education, the Montgomery Council Master Gardeners and The Montgomery County Food Council. We welcomed the […]
Volunteer Spotlight: Katie
As someone who has worked in food security for 20 years, Katie Leary Sebastian knows a lot about food and where it comes from. But at Red Wiggler, she’s been learning some new lessons. “I didn’t have a lot of experience working with people with developmental disabilities, and I will admit I was a little […]