Get Involved!
With the organization now participating in the development and management of three spaces, we are working towards providing monthly newsletter format updates to the entire garden email list, with more specific garden lists getting updates for workdays and planning weekly or as needed.
Below are a few of the committees and groups we have to join. All are welcome.
Community Committee
Our multi-organizational Community Committee leads the discussion around around our mission, vision, and values - using lenses for racial equity, inclusivity, food resilience, and sovereignty to continually identify and remove barriers, to welcome everyone to our shared spaces, and to explore learning opportunities and mutual aid opportunities with other groups and organizations.
email: community@HillsboroughUrbanGardens.org to participate
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Riverwalk Gardeners
This committee is dedicated to all things Riverwalk Garden. They will help us to plan, map, rotate, plant, and manage our Riverwalk garden.
We are currently working on improving signage and navigation to help visitors know exactly where they can help and what they can harvest and help them get more involved.
email : riverwalk@HillsboroughUrbanGardens.org to receive updates
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Distribution Team
This team is comprised of a subset of our Community Committee. They are specialists in connecting with our community to solicit crop requests, manage food distribution relationships, and ensures our harvests are eaten, and our community is invited to share ownership of the community supply chain.
We are currently creating lists for possible sources and destinations for food harvests, not just from HUGs and our future greenhouse nursery of seedlings, but also from our partners and neighbor farms, gardens, and groceries.
email: distribution@HillsboroughUrbanGardens.org to participate
signal:
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Community Kitchen Gardeners
This committee is dedicated to all things Riverwalk Garden. They will help us to plan, map, rotate, plant, and manage our Riverwalk garden.
We are currently just getting started and looking to create a plan for a commercial kitchen and meeting space.
email: Kitchen@HillsboroughUrbanGardens.org to participate
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Redeye Stadium Gardeners
This committee is dedicated to all things Redeye Community Garden. They will help us to plan, map, rotate, plant, and manage our Redeye space.
We are currently just getting started and looking to collect feedback from the community regarding what this food-forest and stage space can provide for us. We will have our first work day soon - to clear out some brambles and dream up what we can here do together.
email Jesse@HillsboroughUrbanGardens.org to participate
(Redeye group pending)
Business Committee
This committee is helping to assemble our official Business plan and organizational documents in order to assist us in exploring grants and funding opportunities. They will assist with end of year filing, our financial ledger and accounts, as well as fundraising efforts.
We are currently starting to create a list of possible grants to pursue, as well as a business plan and a list of documentation that we will need to pursue it.
email Business@HillsboroughUrbanGardens.org to participate
Artists guild
This group will help us with to design our navigable spaces with welcome signs, instructions, posters, flyers, and markers for crops and garden features. They may help with promotional items like t-shirts, totes, and stickers. They may design weekly poster updates, monthly newsletters, quarterly zines that feature local artists, garden news, articles on other inspirational organizations and efforts, as well as recipes for garden veggies, as well as documenting segments of how to cook up a community to put towards a book that we may one day self publish and share freely - to encourage and assist others who wish to create community.
email: jesse@HillsboroughUrbanGardens.org to participate
Bee Keepers
This group will help us to keep bees!
email Jesse@HillsboroughUrbanGardens.org to participate
(beekeepers group pending)
Mushroom loggers
This group will help us to cultivate shiitakes and other mushroom varieties!
email Jesse@HillsboroughUrbanGardens.org to participate
(mushroom group pending)