We are Hiring a
Garden Coordinator
Are you or someone you know looking for meaningful, part-time work this summer? Grow food for the CSA Program, help run the Community Farmers' Market, work with youth and volunteers, and have as much organic veggies as you can eat! This seasonal position offers flexible hours in an outdoor environment as part of a hard-working and inclusive team.
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Join us all day for an Earth Day Celebration! We will be at the garden on April 24th from 1-4pm with food provided by The Progress Center, hot drinks from Cafe Nomad, a garden blessing, and a variety of volunteer projects to get the garden cleaned up and ready for another season. We will be:
- Re-potting seedlings for the Seedling Sale
- Moving parts of our new 30 x 70 ft High Tunnel
- Working in the Food Forest
- Moving Edible Main Street Planters to prep for repairs
- Preparing the little High Tunnel for planting
- Chillin' like Villains (with masks, of course!)
- Cleaning out the Tool Shed
- Cleaning garden beds and moving wood chips into paths
- Tending the Compost
- Enjoying some quiet, live, distanced music
- Digging up Oregano and Peppermint
- Removing Fencing
- Sharing Information about our upcoming season
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Have you heard about Bumper Crop yet?
Alan Day Community Garden is a registered Bumper Crop Market!
Through Bumper Crop, Maine employers can provide gift vouchers to employees to buy fresh food at farmers’ markets.
Here are some of the employers recruited so far: Maine Beer Company, Allagash Brewing, PenBay Hospital, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Maine Medical Center, Western Maine Health Care, Tiller & Rye, Portland Food Co-op, LEAP, City of Bangor.
Additionally, Lee Auto Mall plans to give $40 worth of Bumper Crop gift certificates to any person who makes a donation to Maine Public Radio during their May new membership drive.
These gift vouchers allow hard-working employees to benefit from farmers’ market shopping. Shopping at markets is a great way to get high-quality food and support local farmers while having fun and connecting with community!
Bumper Crop fits easily into any workplace wellness and employee appreciation programs. Plus, a company’s participation goes beyond helping its employees: dollars spent with local farms strengthen our local economies. There are affordable Bumper Crop options for every kind of employer.
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WILD PEAS- Our Youth Program will be back in full swing for 2021, with more focus on developing paid jobs for youth to grow food for the community, help run the Community Market and CSA Garden Share Program, supply fresh greens to Fare Share Food Coop, and learn valuable lifelong skills. The next time you meet your farmer it just might be one of our Youth Leaders!
Learn the details on our website
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2021 Community Farmers' Market
July 9th through September 3rd
Fridays 5-8pm
We know that for many of our customers, the Market last summer was a lifeline and their only social event of the season. Despite the masks and ropes and signs and distancing that kept us all safe, we still looked forward to being together as community in one place. And if we learned anything,
it's that our community wants a Farmers' Market!
We are happy to announce that we will again be joined by Isuken Food Truck, a farm-to-table worker-owned cooperative, featuring sambusas, chai, and other delicious Somali Bantu cuisine.
We are busy lining up farmers, crafters, artists, musicians & performers, demos, the wood-fired pizza oven, and a new "Power of Produce" program for the kids area. We gladly accept cash, credit card, checks, SNAP EBT, and we offer
Maine Harvest Bucks, too!
Interested in being a vendor at the Market?
Find an application on our website
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CSA Garden Share Program
Looking for a CSA program this summer? We partner with Liberation Farms, the Community Farming Program of the Somali Bantu Community Association, to offer one of the best CSA programs around. And better yet, our CSA provides paid jobs for youth leaders who help grow, harvest, pack, and distribute the shares. If you want to support diversity, equity, and inclusion in our local food system this season please consider participating in our program. You can find the details on our website.
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Garden Plots
Whether you are a first time or experienced gardener, we invite you to grow with us this season. We provide land access, compost, tools, water, and workshops. New this season, we will help match you with a Garden Mentor through the Oxford County Cooperative Extension.
Plots are available by donation in 2021. Find the details on our website, we look forward to hearing from you!
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