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
Thanks to all the volunteers who came to our end of season workday! We got all the plants pulled and composted. All we’ve got left to do are hoses, rain barrels, and landscaping cloth. If you slept in with a post-Halloween sugar crash, you have another chance to get some garden hours in next Saturday. (It was a really glorious day of sunshine today, if you missed it, you’ll definitely want to come next week.) ... See MoreSee Less
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Looks like a lot of work was done!
What does 102 pounds of produce look like? Here’s our final harvest of butternut squash, beans, okra, tomatoes, and greens for the season. This takes us up to 898 pounds donated to @afacfeeds, with an extra estimated 74 pounds grown that didn’t make it all the way to the donation center. That’s almost a thousand pounds of produce from the garden this growing season! Thank you to all of our volunteers and especially to our garden management team. If you’re interested in learning more about the garden, join us Saturday morning 10-noon for our end of season celebratory coffee hour and garden closing workday. (We are hoping to get enough volunteers to finish all the end of season work in one day! Bring your friends! Respond here to let us know you’re coming so we bring enough donuts.) ... See MoreSee Less
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Congratulation TJ team you rock!!!!!!
Congrats! That’s a huge achievement and especially timely given the demand for food in our community.
The tail end of the zinnias heading home with volunteers at the volunteer workday. #communitygarden #zinnia #arlingtonva ... See MoreSee Less
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Collards in front of zucchini and tomatoes at this morning’s workday. #schoolgarden #volunteer #communitygarden #fallgarden #october ... See MoreSee Less
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Tuesday evening
Garden workday cancelled
See you Saturday at 10! ... See MoreSee Less
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Hi Folks. Just an update on this morning. Greater than 50% chance of rain starting at 10:00am. All we really need to do today is pick beans and do a bit more okra. Not going to cancel, but dress for getting wet. As soon as harvest is done we can head home.
Friday Garden Club and Saturday’s post-workday donation receipt. We have topped 500 pounds donated to AFAC this year, woohoo! ... See MoreSee Less
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Tuesday PM workday CANCELED
DUE TO RAIN ... See MoreSee Less
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A teeny tiny native bouquet, with obedient plant, black eyed Susan, NY iron weed, cup flower, blue mist flower and I think boneset. Next week we will have the Garden Club out harvesting seed heads to package for native seed giveaways. #schoolgarden #nativeplant #volunteer #communitygarden ... See MoreSee Less
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So pretty!
We’ve moved our evening workday to Tuesday now that Garden Club has started on Fridays. Join us in the garden at 6PM to help us harvest our endless bounty of beans, as well as okra, peppers, and tomatoes! ... See MoreSee Less
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A murder (of crows) at the garden this morning. The other three flew away as I pulled out my phone to take the photo. The weather is deliciously cool, and we have lots of beans to harvest and lots of everything to fertilize, so join us for our volunteer workday this morning. We will be here until 11. ... See MoreSee Less
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