Join our amazing team of volunteers - help empower people of all ages and incomes to grow and eat healthy, organic, local food.

Volunteer with us every week in the garden or once a year at our annual plant sale. Join us in the office on a regular basis or complete a 100 hour internship with us. Wasatch Community Gardens has a number of volunteer opportunities for you!

  Read the descriptions below and sign up today to learn more and find out how you can join the family of Wasatch Community Gardens' friends and supporters.

Garden Volunteers

Want to learn organic gardening practices and techniques? Volunteer in our gardens and get hands on gardening experience, answer your gardening questions and help maintain and beautify our productive youth gardens.

Upcoming giant garden volunteer days:
Join us as we prepare for the annual Tomato Sandwich Party and make the Tomato Garden look even more beautiful than it already is!
Thursday, September 9th 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm Click here to register!

Regularly scheduled garden volunteer days:
Fairpark Garden (1037 W 300 N)
Mondays 8:00 am - 10:00 am* 
Saturdays 10:00 am - 12:00 pm* 

Tomato Garden (800 S 600 E)
Wednesdays 8:00 am - 10:00 am (harvest day!)
Thursdays 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Contact Brit to sign up community@wasatchgardens.org 

Also, work alongside Wasatch Community Gardens' staff every Tuesday from 8am-10am. We switch off between the Fairpark Garden and the Tomato Garden, so contact Brit to find out where we'll be!

Office Volunteers

Hoping to round out your resume or simply learn how an award winning non-profit organization runs? Join us in the WCG office! Our office volunteers work intimately with WCG staff to help with a variety of administrative projects including database and website maintenance and program specific tasks. Sign up today!

Service Learning Students

Enrolled in a service learning class? Each semester WCG staff work with a number of service learning students from colleges, universities and high schools across Salt Lake. Each service learning project is tailored to meet the student's needs and interests as well as their class requirements. Sign up today!

Event Volunteers

Our fabulous events could not be successful without the contribution of hundreds of volunteers! Consider volunteering at any or all of our events and receive specific event benefits such as access to our Annual Plant Sale pre-sale. Sign up today!

Plant Sale, 200 volunteers
May 8th 8am-1pm, Rowland Hall lower school
Volunteers work on May 7th and May 8th

Chicken Week, 30 volunteers
June 21st-26th
Tour de Coop is on Saturday, June 26th 10am-2pm

Salsa Party, 15 volunteers
August 13th 5:30pm-8:30pm, Fairpark Garden
Click here to register!

Tomato Sandwich Party, 30 volunteers
Saturday, September 11th 11am-2pm, Tomato Garden
Click here to register!

Pumpkinfest, 40 volunteers
Saturday, September 25th 2pm-dusk, Sandy Garden

Events Committee Volunteers

Just as we rely on volunteers to help run our events, we also enjoy the benefit of volunteer events committees. If you're interested in participating  on any of our events committees, please contact us by the following dates.

Plant Sale-early February
Chicken Week-late May
Salsa party-late July
Tomato Sandwich Party-late August
Pumpkinfest-early July
Sign up today!

Youth Garden Program Volunteers

Did you know that many of the two-dozen youth who come to our gardens each week get to taste their first-ever garden fresh raspberry, tomato or carrot? Our youth program encourages youth to recognize and eat fresh produce in a small outdoor classroom setting.

Wasatch Community Gardens is in the process of formalizing our Youth Garden Volunteer Program so that we can work with more youth and provide expanded opportunities for volunteers. If you have any suggestions or would like to participate in this process sign up now!

Community Garden Program Volunteers

Did you know that our community gardens are primarily run by the community gardeners themselves? A community garden is the perfect setting for leadership opportunities and teams to flourish. Officially recognized volunteer roles include:

Community garden steward
Irrigation steward team
Work party steward team
Communication steward
Events steward team

Spanish Speaking Volunteers

Hablas espanol? As you can see, we need help translating our many resources so we can expand our education and outreach to Spanish speaking populations. Sign up today!

Court Ordered Community Service Volunteers

Wasatch Community Gardens works with many court ordered community service volunteers to complete their required hours. Please note that we do not accept those who have committed felonies or violent crimes.

We will only certify community service that has first been cleared by Wasatch Community Gardens. Please call or email Brit Merrill at 801-359-2658 ext. 11, community@wasatchgardens.org, to begin your work.