TJMS Community Garden Volunteer Policy
Community volunteers help TJMS meet the needs of S. Arlington families with our produce donations to local food pantries. We can't do it without you! In the 2023 garden season, we donated over fifteen hundred pounds of fresh produce from the garden. It was a lot of work, and we couldn't have done it without our volunteers.
TJ families, neighbors, and community volunteers are invited to join us on Saturday mornings from 10:00am to noon. It's a great opportunity to get fresh air, learn about gardening, and spend time with our friends and neighbors. All ages are welcome, but children under 6th grade must be accompanied by a responsible adult. No need to sign up, just show up ready to garden. Wear sunscreeen and weather and mud appropriate clothes and shoes, and bring a water bottle. We will have gloves and tools to use.
We also welcome corporate volunteer workdays, National Honor Society volunteers, scout troops, and any other volunteer group that would like to join us. If you're interested in setting up a special workday just for your group, please send an email to tjmsoutside@gmail.com.
Parking:
If you need accessible parking, set your map address to: 125 S Old Glebe Rd, Arlington, VA 22204 There are 4 spaces for cars with disabled parking placards in this small lot adjacent to the garden.
Additional parking is available at the TJ Community Center, so set your map address to: 3501 2nd St S, Arlington, VA 22204.
If the Community Center parking is full, on weekends volunteers are welcome to park in the Fleet Elementary staff garage. It's slightly off the edge of the map below-- aim for the Accessible Parking area by setting your map address to 125 S Old Glebe Rd, Arlington, VA 22204 and from the access road just past Fleet, turn into the garage structure. (It's basically underneath the red bubble for Accessible Parking on the map below.)
See the map below for how to find the parking lots and how to walk to the garden:
Volunteer News and Pictures
Don’t forget:
NO workday on Saturday.
See you Sunday 9-11AM instead. ... See MoreSee Less
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We are working around coordinator availability this week, so we won’t have a volunteer workday on Wednesday, and our usual Saturday workday has been shifted to SUNDAY 9-11. See you at the TJMS Community Garden Sunday morning! ... See MoreSee Less
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NO SATURDAY WORKDAY
SEE YOU IN THE GARDEN
ON SUNDAY 9-11 ... See MoreSee Less
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NO WORKDAY
WEDNESDAY NIGHT ... See MoreSee Less
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Beautiful eggplant from this morning’s garden workday. Thanks to the volunteers who helped us weed, plant some bush beans, tie up pole beans, harvest, and fertilize. Fingers crossed that the weather holds up for us to harvest again on Wednesday evening at 7pm. ... See MoreSee Less
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We will be working in the garden 9-11 tomorrow. Join us! #volunteerworkday ... See MoreSee Less
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Given the fierce storms and flooding we’ve been having recently, we decided we didn’t want to risk fighting Mother Nature when the prediction tomorrow is for thunderstorms and gusty wind. So we harvested today and we are cancelling the Wednesday harvesting work night. See you all at Saturday’s volunteer workday at 9-11 instead. ... See MoreSee Less
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With 100% chance of rain predicted at 7pm, we are going to cancel tonight’s volunteer workday. See everyone Saturday morning instead! ... See MoreSee Less
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The weather is keeping us on our toes, so check back in tomorrow for the final word on whether we will have a volunteer workday in the TJMS garden from 7-8:30. ... See MoreSee Less
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It looks like the weather will be sunny and low eighties for our first Wednesday evening volunteer workday. See you at the TJMS Community garden from 7-8:30 tonight! ... See MoreSee Less
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See you in the garden this Saturday from 9-11 for our garden volunteer workday. ... See MoreSee Less
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Great workday today! With a lot of help from Fleet students and their families, we harvested chard, squash and beets, weeded, transplanted and pinched back basil. ... See MoreSee Less
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