How to Help | Friendship Gardens Charlotte

How to help

Be a volunteer! Click here or at right to tell us how we can contact you and how you'd like to help.

Here are some specific volunteer roles that are needed. If you would like to help fulfill one of these roles please contact Henry Owen.

Harvest Deliverer:

Harvest time is busy! we need help getting the harvest from our gardens to the willing chefs at Friendship Trays. After year of volunteers taking food tray deliveries FROM Friendship Trays, it’s time for volunteers to deliver food TO Friendship Trays. Are you willing to drive the garden circuit picking up harvest or perhaps adopt one of our gardens to help bring in the harvest and play a crucial role in getting Friendship Trays recipients the best food available? Contact Henry Owen.

Baby Plant Starter:

Our network of gardens need lots of plants. We can provide the supplies. Can you germinate, nurture, and baby sit plants in your home before they are ready to plant outside? Contact Henry Owen.

Greenhouse worker:

Do you love baby plants? Want to help us start plants for our network of gardens in our donated greenhouse? We provide the supplies and can train you. Contact Henry Owen.

Leaf Thief!:

Fall leaves make great mulch around plants and are an essential ingredient in making compost. We need LOTS of leaves year round. We need leaf thieves to save bags of leaves from the curb and deliver them to the Friendship Trays Demonstration Garden and the Charlotte Correctional Center Farm. Contact Henry Owen.

Photographer:

Do you love to shoot ... pictures? We need pictures of each garden for the website. We would also love to invite you a work day to be the designated photographer. Contact Henry Owen.

Mower:

Enjoy keeping the grass cut low? We grow food but also need to keep grass and weeds around gardens low. We need your help. Contact Henry Owen.

Friendship Gardens Charlotte
Creating local, renewable nutritious food resources for meals-on-wheels recipients
An Initiative of Slow Food Charlotte and Friendship Trays, Inc.

Friendship Trays, 2401-A Distribution St. Charlotte, NC 28203 voice 704-333-9229 fax 704-333-5947
Meals-on-wheels in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, NC
Delivering, in a caring and friendly manner, balanced meals to individuals in this community
who are unable, because of age or infirmity, to obtain and prepare their own meal
Friendship Trays is a 501(c)(3) organization. Employer ID #56-1201496. Financial information about this organization and a copy of its license
are available from the State Solicitation Licensing Branch at 919-807-2000. The license is not an endorsement by the State.