Winter Veggies cooking class - January 25th
Native-plant Gardening for Pollinators - January 25th
Green Film Fest: "Kilowatt Ours" - February 5th
Traditional Breads for St. Patrick's Day - February 9
Taste of Mexican Hospitality - March 28
Growing Matters Garden Program
Volunteer Opportunities with the Growing Matters Garden Program
Volunteers are a very important part of our educational gardening program! If you are interested in volunteering, there are many ways you can help, including:
- Community Volunteer Night
- Woodward School Garden Night
- Master Gardener Opportunities
- VolunTeen Opportunities
- College Student Internships
Community Volunteer Night
Come lend a hand, meet new people, and learn about organic gardening at our community volunteer nights.
Join us at our main garden (2119 N Westnedge) every Wednesday evening, May through September. We gather and garden from 6:30-8:00pm. Family, friends, and neighbors are welcome to join us, too!
Woodward School Garden Night
Help us keep Woodward's school garden going all summer long. Join us as we pull weeds, plant seeds, and harvest (and occasionally eat) what the garden grows for us.
Join us Tuesday evenings, 7-8pm at Woodward Elementary School's Roots of Knowledge Garden (corner of Stuart and North Streets) from June through August. Family, friends, and neighbors are welcome to join us, too!
Master Gardener Opportunities
If you are a Master Gardener working towards basic certification or recertification, you can count the time that you volunteer with Growing Matters Garden as personal choice hours.
For details about our Master Gardener volunteer opportunities, please visit the Kalamazoo County Master Gardener website.
VolunTeen Opportunities
The Growing Matters Garden program is proud to work with the Volunteer Center of Greater Kalamazoo to offer volunteer opportunities for local youth. Area teens are welcome to help as a garden teacher assistant, garden maintenance assistant, or farmers' market assistant.
To learn more, please contact us or visit the Volunteer Center of Greater Kalamazoo website.
College Student Internships
We strive to create opportunities to learn and grow at our urban educational gardens. Every year, the Growing Matters Garden program provides engaging and valuable work experience for college students through our Garden Internship positions. We will soon be accepting applications for the 2012 growing season. You can download a copy of our 2011 internship description and application package or email for more information.
- Can-Do Kitchen
A licensed facility for new & existing food businesses, local-produce processing, and job training.
- Douglass Farmers' Market
Greet friends and neighbors at this new market on the north side of town featuring local producers.
- Eat Local, Kalamazoo!
Learn how, where and why to eat local in our series of presentations and events.
- Future Chefs
Teens cook? From scratch? Check out this cool summer program.
- Growing Matters Garden
Kids get their hands dirty, and learn a lot, with our multi-site gardening project.
- Southwest Michigan Community Harvest Fest
Celebrate local food, local farming, and sustainable living with great speakers, music and more.