Get Involved

Volunteer!

Village Gardens can use volunteers on occasion.  Because our projects are led by residents of our communities, we often have most of our volunteer needs already covered but please check here for postings on current volunteer needs.

Food Works Farm Volunteer Groups - Food Works youth farm plans to host volunteer groups of 10 to 20 volunteers each Saturday this spring from 10am to 2pm. Volunteer groups will have the opportunity to join Food Works youth leaders in their work  seeding, planting, weeding, and maintaining their Sauvie Island Farm.  Please contact Sara at sweihmann@janusyouth.org to coordinate a volunteer group or fill out our online volunteer group registration form.

Food Works Summer Volunteer Intern Positions – Food Works is recruiting interns for summer 2013. Do you have a passion for cooking, empowering young leaders, growing sustainable farms, marketing organic produce, or teaching job and academic skills to teenagers? If you answered yes, then you we’ve got the volunteer internship for you. Food Works is currently accepting applications for the following volunteer internship positions: (please download a position description)

• Farmers Market Intern
• Cooking and Nutrition Program Intern
• Academic/Job Skills Trainer
• Summer Youth Program Intern
• Farm Intern

To apply submit a cover letter and resume to Sara at sweihmann@janusyouth.org

Village Market Store - What Are Your Special Talents & Skills? Village Market needs you! You! Your muscle, willing hands, and organizing skill! Your nice smile, ideas, or heart-warming soup! Help us stock shelves, count inventory, and sparkle up pans, Make sure the milk’s chill and the onions don’t stink! Have a blast! Cook! Learn stuff! Make new friends, do good work! Make signs? update the website? You bet! You can put what you do on your resume, & have great feelings about your day. Volunteer for Village Market! Just drift in the door, sign our volunteer form. Help out just two or three hours a week! Call today, or come right in. 503-943-5644 

Join Our Team!

Are you a resident of St. Johns Woods, New Columbia, or the Tamaracks?  Do you have family and friends who are a part of those communities?  Please contact us at 503-286-2099 so we can help to find a way for you to become involved in one of our programs, as a gardener, a youth leader, a committee member, or to get your kids into the Garden Club.

Support Our Work!

Your donation helps our Community Leaders to help their community.  To make a tax-deductible donation to Village Gardens, please follow this link You can also send a check to Village Gardens, Janus Youth Programs, 707 NE Couch, Portland, OR 97232.  Foundations interested in our programs are encouraged to contact Amber Baker at abaker@janusyouth.org, or Rosalie Karp at rkarp@janusyouth.org.

Become a Customer!

Help the ongoing success of Village Gardens by shopping with us! Visit the Village Market in North Portland or look for Food Works Produce. Food Works youth can be found at the Portland Farmer’s Market at PSU, and the St. Johns Farmer’s Market on Saturdays during the summer.  Food Works products can also be purchased at the New Seasons Market Arbor Lodge store on N Interstate and at the Village Market. You can also support Food Works by becoming a CSA Member.

Spread the Word!

Share about our projects with everyone you know.  We hope that our work can help to support positive community development in other areas around Portland and the country. Link to this site at villagegardens.org