COMMUNITY HARVEST
A collaborative initiative to help grow and harvest local foods.
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Volunteers
Are you interested in getting outside, volunteering at farms & gardens, and helping grow/harvest food for community?
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Landowners + Managers
Are you a farmer, rancher, gardener, seed-saver or habitat manager interested in inviting volunteers to help grow, harvest or glean food on your land?
2024 VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Story Mill Community Garden & Food Forest
Final shifts of the season!
Wednesday 9/25 → sign up
Saturday 9/28 → sign up
GOAL: Cultivate Story Mill Community Garden crops for GVFB and support the growth of Story Mill Food Forest for future generations.
Host: Cally Ward and interns, Gallatin Valley Food Bank , HRDC
PAST: April 26, 9am–1pm: we’ll be helping at HRDC Warming Center’s Clean-up & Barbeque
PAST: May 18: Greenhouse Prep + Spring Cleaning
Past: weekly shifts and twice-monthly work parties.
Gleaning + “Grow a Row”
Share your harvest!
Fresh produce is not always accessible to those on tight budgets, and contributing extra locally grown produce to the Gallatin Valley Food Bank (GVFB) is a tangible way to help increase access to fresh, quality foods.
Donations accepted Monday-Thursday 9am–4pm and Friday 9am-12pm at HRDC Market Place (206 E Griffin Dr.)
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Amaltheia Organic Dairy
Sundays 1-4pm → sign up via Amaltheia
Volunteers work for the vegetable side of the farm, not the dairy, and receive a box of vegetables at the end of their shift.
ROOT HARVEST: October (dates tbd)
Chance Farm Work Trade
consistent 4 hour shifts → sign up via Chance Farm
Whether you are a seasoned farmer or a novice with a budding interest, Chance Farm invites you to be a part of their work trade program. Various shifts available. If these hours do not fit into your schedule but you are still interested in a work trade, please reach out with a consistent 4 hour shift that does!
Please only apply if you are able to consistently show up for the majority of your shifts, June - September.
Backyard Blend • September 27–October 13
Have surplus crabapples, pears, apples?
Lockhorn Cider House accepts cider-quality fruit. PLEASE: no sticks, mud, grass, mold, or mush!
Backyard Blend
Community Apple Harvest
On 9/21, 2024, Gallatin Valley Food Bank (GVFB) and partners met to harvest fruit from sites across our community, and rescued over 375 pounds.
Register for 2025:
→ have apples? Landowner or Manager
→ want to help harvest? Volunteer
Keep apples from going to waste or attracting bears:
The best apples: get eaten!
Cider apples: become Lockhorn Cider’s Backyard Blend.
The rest: become pig feed or compost.
PARTNERS: Gallatin Valley Food Bank, Open & Local, Valley of the Flowers, Lockhorn Cider… and passionate community members like you!
Tinworks Art
“Wheatfield — An Inspiration”
Opportunities to weed, mill, and eat the wheat from this art installation. To receive all calls for assistance, email Tinworks Community Outreach + Education Coordinator.
Learn more.
PARTNERS
Community Harvest is a collaborative initiative facilitated by the Open & Local Coalition on behalf of our partners and the people they serve.
COLLABORATION
The Community Harvest collaborative initiative grew from Gallatin Valley Botanical’s work with Happel Family Farm, Gallatin Valley Food Bank, Gallatin Valley Land Trust and others in 2020, growing carrots for vulnerable members of our community: Bozeman food bank seeks volunteers to harvest donated carrots.
Through this project, 200+ volunteers donated over 1,130 hours, and Gallatin Valley Botanical was able to donate 11,000# of carrots to Gallatin Valley Food Bank — roughly 725# of carrots per week from November 2020—February 2021.
GOALS
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Help those growing local food when extra hands are needed.
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Offer opportunities to learn and work alongside others.
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Make locally grown, healthy foods more accessible to all.