Teter Organic Farm

The Education volunteers help our Education Director when we need adults for children's programing or promotion of events.

The Chicken Tender Team feeds and waters the chickens, collects the eggs and helps maintain the coop.

This is the crew that collects our fabulous veggie recipes for the Teter Cookbook and enters them into our publishing software. 

This team sets up for CSA pickup, hands out veggies, talks to our members, and tears down at the end of the evening each week from mid May to late Oct.

This team meets twice a week to plant, maintain, and harvest the Teter's beautiful cutting field.

The Teter Egg Washing Team cleans and packages the eggs weekly for customers and donations.

The Farmer's Market Team sets up our booths on Saturday mornings, mans the stand, and packs everything up to go home afterwards.

Our greenhouse volunteers work from mid-February to June to start seeds, pot up plants, water, and tend the plants for the Annual Plant Sale and the farm.  

At Teter Retreat & Organic Farm, the Habitat Stewards care for the woods, meadows, and green spaces that make this place a sanctuary for people and wildlife alike. Volunteers remove invasive plants, restore native habitat, tend young trees, and help keep our trails safe and welcoming. Every hour of service strengthens Teter’s mission of creation care, ecological health, and community renewal. Come lend your hands — and help the land flourish.

This team works to beautify the lodge, cabin and surrounding outdoor area to enhance the experience of our visitors.

No prior experience is necessary, training is provided.  Your interest to volunteer and help is all that is required.  Feel free to reach out to Emma St.Dennis with any questions at threelsmom@hotmail.com or 317-432-7146.

Activities include but not limited to:

• Flower bed maintenance, watering, weeding, planting, etc
• Lodge indoor/outdoor decorating
• Cabin outdoor decorating; wreaths, flags, etc
• Using leaf blower to clear all walkways
• Clean up of grounds surrounding area
• Outdoor grill maintenance
• Upkeep of outdoor furniture

The Mowing Crew uses Teter's mowers to maintain the common use areas of the property for the enjoyment and safety of guests.  

The Peace Garden, it's plants, art, and labeling, are maintained by this group of volunteers who meet twice a week but can work independently once trained.

The Teter Rental Team is made up of three groups who select their availability to help either wash linens, clean the cabins or lodge, or make the beds, based on the rental calendar.  

Teter hosts several special events during the year, most notably our Annual Farm to Table Dinner.  This team gets the people, the funds, the food, and the atmosphere coordinated.

This team works in the produce fields and high tunnels to grow the produce we sell and donate.  This is farm labor and includes transplanting, raking, weeding, and other physical tasks.

The wash pack team is active weekly from late May to late October in 2023.

This crew washes or otherwise cleans, packages, bunches, weighs, and sorts our harvest for sale and distribution.

Each shift is two hours.  Most job require standing on hard surfaces but we can accommodate for seated positions.