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April 28, 2012

Shape the Greenhouse!

Join Tricycle Gardens & HandsOn Greater Richmond for a productive day at the headquarters for Tricycle Gardens in Church Hill. They’ve just finished building their new solar greenhouse on site, so expect lots of greenhouse duties. There will also be jobs for compost work, mulching, filling planters, and various building projects. Together we can continue to grow healthy food, healthy communities and a healthy economy!


Free and ample street parking. Depending on the heat in June and August, the hours may change to 8-12.

Wear clothes to get dirty in and bring garden/work gloves if you have them. If you have any hand tools for simple building projects, go ahead and bring those too.

To attend this volunteer event, you must sign up through the HandsOn Greater Richmond website by clicking here. 
Start: April 28, 2012 9:00 am
End: April 28, 2012 1:00 pm
Address:
2107 Jefferson Avenue

March 28, 2012

Permaculture Work Day

Come join us at our bi-monthly work sessions! The second and fourth Wednesday of the month from 1-4pm we invite volunteers to join us to learn about Permaculture and help us maintain our garden at the Science Museum of Virginia!

Start: March 28, 2012 1:00 pm
End: March 28, 2012 4:00 pm
Venue: Science Museum of Virginia
Address:
2500 W Broad Street

March 24, 2012

Carver Community Garden Work Day

We will be working in and around the garden to clean the area, remove weeds or garbage, preparing the garden for the spring planting season and helping keep up the local church grounds. Please join us!
Start: March 24, 2012 10:00 am
End: March 24, 2012 12:00 pm
Venue: Carver Community Garden
Address:
The intersection of Leigh St. and Kinney St.

HandsOn RVA Urban Farm Workday

Join Tricycle Gardens & HandsOn Greater Richmond for a productive day of hands-on work at our urban farm – learn new skills, meet new friends, and get a little dirty! Activities can include farm irrigation, compost management, pruning and weeding in our herb & flower garden, harvesting crops, maintaining crops that have been planted, weed maintenance, and seed transplanting. This will be the first in a series of weekend volunteer days coordinated through HandsOn RVA.

 

All volunteers who plan to attend must be registered through the HandsOn RVA website. Please feel free to email learn@tricyclegardens with any questions.

Start: March 24, 2012 9:00 am
End: March 24, 2012 1:00 pm
Venue: Urban Farm
Address:
9th & Bainbridge

March 14, 2012

Permaculture Work Day

Come join us at our bi-monthly work sessions! The second and fourth Wednesday of the month from 1-4pm we invite volunteers to join us to learn about Permaculture and help us maintain our garden at the Science Museum of Virginia!

Start: March 14, 2012 1:00 pm
End: March 14, 2012 4:00 pm
Venue: Science Museum of Virginia
Address:
2500 W Broad Street

February 22, 2012

Permaculture Work Sessions

Come join us at our bi-monthly work sessions! The second and fourth Wednesday of the month from 1-4pm we invite volunteers to join us to learn about Permaculture and help us maintain our garden at the Science Museum of Virginia!

Start: February 22, 2012 1:00 pm
End: February 22, 2012 4:00 pm
Venue: Science Museum of Virginia
Address:
2500 W Broad Street, Richmond, VA, 23220, United States

October 21, 2011

Volunteer Appreciation Potluck

We’d like to invite you to join us at our headquarters in Church Hill for a potluck celebrating YOU! Our volunteers are an integral part of the work we do, and we’d like to say Thank You for all your hard work! Join us from 5pm-8pm Friday, October 21st.

Please bring a potluck dish of your choice. We’ll provide a fantastic place to celebrate and some refreshments!

And if you’ve never volunteered with us before, we’d still love to see you. So please feel free to come by and get to know us!

Date: October 21, 2011
Venue: Tricycle Gardens HQ
Address:
Google Map
2107 Jefferson Avenue, Richmond, 23223, United States

October 20, 2011

Sheet Mulching Demonstration & Volunteer Work Day

Almond tree guild at the Science Museum

Almond tree guild at the Science Museum site, with comfrey, horseradish, salvia, Egyptian walking onions, and annual cosmos.

Illustration credit: Wild Westco wildwestco.wordpress.com/

 

Join us for a fall volunteer work day in our permaculture display garden at the Science Museum’s Green Acre. Tricycle Gardens staff and volunteers will demonstrate sheet mulching, a technique that seeks to the emulate the littler layer of a forest floor in the home or community garden. Organic materials, including newspaper, cardboard, tattered cloth, and wood chips, are strategically layered to suppress weeds, retain water and nutrients, and eventually break down and add organic matter into the soil, improving soil structure. New plantings can be placed right into the sheet mulch! Known to many gardeners as “lasagna mulching,” this activity is rewarding, and fun to boot! After the demonstration, you’ll have the opportunity to put your new knowledge into practice by helping us sheet mulch the garden. Wear appropriate outdoor clothing, bring a water bottle, and bring some gloves if you have them!!

Start: October 20, 2011 8:00 am
End: October 20, 2011 11:00 am
Venue: Science Museum of Virginia
Address:
Google Map
2500 W Broad Street, Richmond, VA, United States

September 13, 2011

Permaculture Volunteer Event – Tuesday, Sept 13, 2011: 8 – 11 am !

Come help us spruce up our Permaculture Garden at the Science Museum of Virginia and get a free work out!

We’ll be cutting back grasses, weeding, and adding compost and mulch around our trees and bed areas. Learn about Permaculture while you work!

What to Wear & Bring: Please dress appropriately for the weather and if you have gloves, hand tools, pruners, rakes and shovels bring them along. (Some gloves and tools will be available).

Have Extra Newspaper or cardboard? – we can use it for mulch!  Please contact Scotty to let her know.

RSVP: Call or email Scotty Dilworth: scotty@tricyclegardens.org or (804) 873-0234

Start: September 13, 2011 8:00 am
End: September 13, 2011 11:00 am
Venue: Science Museum of Virginia
Address:
Google Map
2500 W Broad Street, Richmond, VA, United States

September 8, 2011

Volunteer Workday at Tricycle HQ

Come help us spruce up our Headquarters!

2 Workshifts:

  • 10 am – 1 pm
  • 2 pm  - 6 pm

Activities include painting, weeding, sweeping, planting. Please dress to get dirty!

Start: September 8, 2011 10:00 am
End: September 8, 2011 6:00 pm
Venue: Tricycle Gardens HQ
Address:
Google Map
2107 Jefferson Avenue, Richmond, 23223, United States