Volunteer Coordinator

Tracy Weber

For any questions related to the Community Plot and/or volunteering,
please email Tracy or call her at 829-8194.

Volunteers Needed!

YCG is a volunteer-based community group that always needs and enthusiastically welcomes volunteers!

In the spring, we need a hand getting the garden ready for plots and planting.
When it's time for planting, we need lots of help planting seeds and seedlings in the community garden plot.
Through the growing season, we're always need volunteers to help with weed management!
We appreciate help on Tuesday evenings when donation produce is harvested and prepared for delivery.
In the fall, we need volunteer help to coordinate and host the Annual Harvest Dinner fundraiser.
And fall clean-up in the garden always calls for volunteer hands.
In addition to regular gardening needs, for extra fun, there are always special, one-time projects presenting themselves, too!

The steering committee collaborates with the Yarmouth School System to coordinate projects that involve students.

High School student volunteers provide community service at the garden. They've built structures for growing beans, installed cedar posts to line the garden's main walkway, created signs for crops, and painted trash barrels.
A second- and third-grade teacher from Yarmouth Elementary School planted two plots with her class. The students and their parents maintained the plots through the summer, and they used their produce to make a Harvest Soup for the whole school the next fall.
We hosted a science teacher and her students from the Gray-New Gloucester school system for an educational garden tour.
Eagle Scout Josiah Gray built a pavilion at the garden, as his Eagle Scout project. This projected was supported by Yarmouth Community Services and Hancock Lumber. The pavilion is now a gathering place for plot renters, volunteers, and town citizens, with picnic tables and a communications / announcements bulletin board. It is also a facility for educational meetings, workshops, or presentations.
Volunteers deliver produce to Yarmouth families, Meals on Wheels; the First Parish Congregational Church food pantry; St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church food pantry; Bartlett Circle Elderly Housing; AMISTAD, a Portland-based organization helping people who are mentally challenged; and Freeport Community Services’ food pantry.
Three nursing homes in Yarmouth (Bay Square, Coastal Manor, and Brentwood) receive arrangements of fresh flowers grown in the community plot.

Steering Committee