Food Garden Assistant
PURPOSE
Edendale is an environmental education centre for people of all ages which focuses on people Connecting to nature, community, place, culture; Lifelong environmental Learning; and Leading by example.
Edendale is a working farm and has health and safety requirements for staff and volunteers. Volunteers need to able to work safely and at times unsupervised (after initial training).
The Food Garden Assistant volunteer role is to assist in the ongoing upkeep of the food gardens and the Edendale Home Harvest Seed Library. Our Home Harvest Seed Library is a place to store seeds saved by the community, which is open and free for all gardeners to grow local food.
LOCATION
Edendale, 30 Gaston’s Rd, Eltham
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Planting, mulching, watering, composting and weeding
- Selecting and tagging vegetable seedlings
- Harvesting and preparing food for sale
- Select and grow plants for the purpose of saving their seeds for the library.
- Making origami seed envelopes,
- Filling seed envelopes and completing the labels,
- Harvesting seed from the food gardens,
- Enter required data into the volunteer management database, myvolunteerpage.com.au
REPORTS TO
Edendale Staff
TIME COMMITMENT
Friday, 9.30am-12.30pm
REQUIRED SKILLS
- Experience in chemical-free/sustainable vegetable gardening
- Good communication
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Ability to perform physical tasks
- Able to following detailed instructions
- Good timekeeping
SUPPORT
Training and orientation for this position will be provided by the Volunteer Coordinator and other relevant Edendale staff. Ongoing support will be provided throughout the volunteer’s involvement in the program(s)
SECURITY CHECKS
- Two reference checks
- Working with Children Check
