New Member's Info for Volunteers with Gaia's Guardians Network!

[Heather K]

Welcome friends & neighbors to our network of volunteers!

We're a grassroots work-group of  volunteers & land-'owners' dedicated to co-creating biodiverse landscapes of community gardens, farms, orchards, forests, greenhouses & kitchens to balance localized food growing with eco-restoration.

This group was created due to the great need for volunteers, apprenticeships, & eco-restoration in our community. Also for the need to connect landowners to garden-farmers-foresters.

You can located listings for volunteer needs (past & present),

 under this discussion page: http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/group/plantingseedsofchangevolunt...

 

We look forward to working together in community as a volunteer at many of the garden/harvest/farm/forest Work-Groups & Work-Parties!

You can also Promote your volunteer work-group needs, offerings & events by many ways: 
* Whatcom Volunteer Center 734-3055 * Shannon's Garden E-News * TW Events page & then forward to your friends * Sustainable Bellingham & Transition Whatcom newsletters * Word of mouth sharing! * Phone Trees *

You are encouraged to receive our local "Garden E-News" compiled by Shannon Maris.   (Be sure to request Shannon to put you on her list & provide her with your email.....She volunteers to compile a current list of many local garden activities & work-parties which she emails us.): http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/ShannonMaris

You can also pass onto Shannon your information on events & work-parties to be published in the her widely read Garden E-News).

 

Many local folks also network on -

 "EarthGardens: Edible-Medicinal-Wild Habitats" Network:

http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/group/organic

 

Community calendar events can be posted online at Sustainable Bellingham calendar:

http://www.sustainablebellingham.org/events/community-calendar

Or under the Transition Whatcom Events page:

http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/events

 

New to Transition Whatcom? See vision/mission info Below:
( Review the Vision Statement & 7 Principles of TW.) http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/page/vision-mission
http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/page/7-principles

 

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Inspiration provided by grassroot activists: the people at the CLSR (Center for Local Self-Reliance); Sustainable Bellingham & Food Not Lawns, The Ground Floor & Old Foundry; Whatcom County School Garden Collective, & Common Threads Farm; BUGS-Bellingham Urban Garden Syndicate; SC Farm to Food Programs; Small Potatoes Gleaning; CEAEE; Inspiration Farm; members of TW & volunteers at Great Unleashing 2010; and Community garden founders, many grassroots food-not-lawn volunteers & garden guerrillas, and especially inspiration from permi & farmer friends who 'get it' & all those who have walked before us planting fresh seeds into the hands of the people! .


(First draft name - 'Planting Seeds of Change Volunteers' was changed) HK 4/10