Become a Serenity Community Gardens Steward
The Serenity Community Gardens is seeking volunteers who would like to steward a garden plot(s) to help feed themselves, their family, and our community.
This is a hands-on opportunity to grow food, build relationships with neighbors, and care for our shared environment. Garden Stewards help cultivate a thriving, welcoming space where food and knowledge are shared.
About the Garden Steward Role
Garden Stewards play an active part in growing and maintaining the garden.
This role involves:
- Planting vegetables, herbs, perennials, and native plants
- Watering, pruning, cultivating, and harvesting crops
- Removing invasive plants
- Weeding and maintaining healthy garden beds
- Bending, standing, lifting, and working outdoors
- Keeping shared spaces clean and organized
- Using garden tools responsibly and returning them after use
- Picking up after yourself and caring for common areas
- Collaborating and working respectfully with other volunteers
- Sharing harvested food with family, neighbors, or the community
- Weighing and recording harvested produce to support future grant funding
- Informing others if issues arise that need attention
- Participating in learning, teaching, and environmental stewardship
This is a shared community space rooted in cooperation, care, and mutual support.
Ideal volunteers:
- Are excited to grow food and learn alongside others
- Are comfortable with outdoor physical activity
- Value collaboration and community connection
- Are willing to help maintain a clean and respectful shared space
- Understand the importance of tracking harvest totals for reporting purposes
- This role is not for SSL hours, unless for a specific event
- In the case that it is for a specific event and students are able to earn SSL hours they will be directly supervised by adult representatives of GFNCA in a public space
Whether you are an experienced gardener or just getting started, you are welcome here.
Why Volunteer?
- Grow fresh, healthy food
- Connect with neighbors
- Learn new gardening skills
- Contribute to local food access
- Care for the environment
- Share in the harvest and the experience
Not approved for MCPS SSL hours.
