Market Garden Volunteers

TAMS - The Allotment Market Stall

The Allotment Market Stall provides good-quality, well-priced, locally grown fruit and vegetables and reduces waste. We have opportunities this season for volunteers to be a part of developing our nature friendly market garden, based at Grove Nursery, Hazlehead, Aberdeen

Market Garden Volunteers

TAMS - The Allotment Market Stall

The Allotment Market Stall provides good-quality, well-priced, locally grown fruit and vegetables and reduces waste. We have opportunities this season for volunteers to be a part of developing our nature friendly market garden, based at Grove Nursery, Hazlehead, Aberdeen

Cause:
Greenspace & gardens
Location:
Aberdeen
Suitable for volunteers:
age 16 to 17
age 18 and over

About this opportunity

The Allotment Market Stall provides good-quality, well-priced, locally grown fruit and vegetables and reduces waste. We have opportunities this season for volunteers to be a part of developing our nature friendly market garden, based at Grove Nursery, Hazlehead, Aberdeen, AB15 8LD on Thursdays 1-3pm and/or Sundays 1-3pm.

This provides the opportunity to:

• Join in with the cultivation of a nature friendly market garden
• Would suit someone who enjoys outdoors and nature and wants to be part of a community project promoting local food growing.

Main tasks involve:
• Help make and plant up our no dig beds.
• Sowing seeds and looking after them.
• Planting and tending fruit and veg.
• Garden maintenance and DIY.

Full training will be given. Volunteers will be accompanied and supported at all times.

This is a great opportunity to:
• Make a difference in your city and the environment.
• Be a part of a community of growers.
• Learn gardening skills.

To get involved/for more information please email Jackie Welsh, TAMS Volunteer Coordinator at: [email protected]

Experience required

• Willingness to meet and work with other volunteers
• Knowledge of growing (and cooking) desirable
• Enjoy being outdoors

Location

Get in touch to find out more

Jackie Welsh, TAMS Volunteer Coordinator
Volunteers (aged 16-25) taking part in this opportunity are eligible to claim Saltire Awards hours for their activity.

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