Depending on the time of year, we’ll be weeding, preparing beds for planting, harvesting food for local food banks, caring for natural areas and more! No experience necessary, and gloves and tools provided.
Learn by doing as you work alongside Tilth Alliance’s staff and other community members at one of our garden locations at the Good Shepherd Center in North Seattle, Bradner Gardens and Rainier Beach Urban Farm & Wetlands in South Seattle or at McAuliffe Park in Kirkland. Volunteer opportunities are tailored for each site.
Rainier Beach Urban Farm & Wetlands
5513 S Cloverdale St, Seattle 98118
During weekly and monthly work parties, groups of volunteers help with a wide variety of projects at Seattle’s largest urban farm. This unique location provides opportunities to tend native and beneficial plants on the Pollinator Hillside, plant and harvest crops in the production farm and U-Pick areas, remove aggressive plant species in the wetlands, tend to the children’s garden, and lend a hand in the greenhouses.
Volunteer work parties are held year-round, typically on Friday and Saturday mornings. During the height of the growing season, additional weekday work parties help us keep up with the harvest. Check here for additional pop-up work parties and special events at the farm!
Community Volunteer Work Parties
Culturally Relevant Organic Plant Starts
Join us to sort and pack flats of plants to distribute to communities in King County, including making plant tags, potting up smaller plants, watering and organizing starts.
Rainier Beach Fruit Crew
Help care for community orchard spaces, fruit trees and berries at Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands! Each month we’ll learn about and practice monthly fruit care tasks, including planting, pruning, harvesting, irrigation, pest and disease management, propagation and more.
Youth & Families Work Party
Join us every 4th Saturday this Spring from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Rainier Beach Urban Farm & Wetlands for our family work parties! We will be working in the Children’s Garden, tending to beds planted by students in our youth programs. You can expect tasks appropriate for all ages including weeding, watering, harvesting, digging, and even a tasty garden snack or two!
Youth ages 12 and under are welcome with supervision. Please bring a snack and water.
The Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Seattle 98103
During weekly work parties, small groups of volunteers help to prepare and maintain annual and perennial garden beds, tend to fruit trees, harvest produce, weed and mulch our gardens at the Good Shepherd Center.
Community Volunteer Work Parties
Support our Community Learning Garden in Wallingford, adjacent to Meridian Playground and just beyond our Children’s Learning Garden.
Children’s Garden Work Parties
The Children’s Learning Garden at the Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford is maintained by our Youth and Families and Natural Yard Care programs.
Returns March 2026. Learn by doing! During Monday shifts, volunteers will help maintain annual garden beds planted by youth in our programs. Expect to help with planting, weeding, digging, push mowing, watering, harvesting, garden bed creation and preparation, and trellis building. All members of the community, including youth and families, are welcome. Questions? Please email Benay O’Connell.
During Wednesday shifts, the Natural Yard Care team will guide volunteers in stewarding perennial plantings and caring for garden beds that grow fresh produce for local food banks. Expect to help with planting, weeding, digging, mulching, watering, harvesting, pathway maintenance, garden bed design and preparation, and trellis building. All ages and skill levels welcome. Don’t see a shift that works for you? Please email Melissa McGinn. Availability on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Bradner Gardens Park
1730 Bradner Pl S, Seattle 98144
Tilth Alliance’s learning garden at Bradner Gardens Park features annual and perennial plants grown in raised beds and swale gardens. Weekly volunteer opportunities are scheduled during the growing season, roughly April-October, with a limited number of spots available each week.
McAuliffe Park
10824 NE 116th St, Kirkland 98034
Our community learning garden at McAuliffe Park in Kirkland features gardens built using permaculture design principles, a rain garden and cistern and a composting area. Volunteers help tend to annual vegetable crops and perennial plantings, learning how to grow food, harvest rainwater and conserve water and other resources. Weekly volunteer opportunities are scheduled during the growing season, roughly April-October. Check here for additional pop-up work parties during the fall and winter.