Would you like to volunteer at Elderberry Wisdom Farm this summer?
- Dawn Lowe
- 7 days ago
- 2 min read
By Dawn Lowe (Mohawk, Cherokee, Apache, Hawaiian, Blackfoot)
TEK Educator/Mentor
Summer is approaching, and Elderberry Wisdom Farm has special opportunities to offer to volunteers who live near our farm south of Salem in rural Marion County. If you want to know more about our non-profit farm, we are a small but mighty group that provides diverse habitat restoration principles, native plant nursery development, plus our organic gardening practices including the Three Sisters Garden that is taking over the lawn and sprouting from some ancient food seeds we were blessed to receive.
If you find yourself looking out the window at the world of nature on a Wednesday morning wondering how to get involved, you can join us. If you have not worked with us yet, Elderberry Wisdom Farm is a Native American non-profit organization that trains cohorts of interns to conduct habitat restoration in local Willamette Valley ecosystems, cultivate and maintain native tree and shrub species for partners, and support native tree and shrub seed and plant restoration. We are also growing organic vegetables this summer to provide to local Native elders and family members unable to access food boxes from their tribes.
We will host Wednesday Volunteer Days all summer, starting at 10:00 a.m. Wednesdays. Volunteer Days begins on June 4 and is expected to continue through the end of the month.
If you can’t make a weekday but still want to join us, we open up every third Saturday of
the month with a Volunteer Elderberry Wisdom Farm Event. This month it will be held on Saturday, June 21 starting at 10:00 am. That is also the time we celebrate Summer Solstice.
If you’re interested, please get in touch with me, Dawn Lowe at raven@elderberrywisdom.org and I will contact you with any additional details. We appreciate you taking the time to consider volunteer work here and look forward to exciting activities through the month of June.
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