Volunteering in Issaquah

Volunteers and interns are essential to the success of Seattle Tilth! 

Build professional and personal skills, meet people and contribute to the community in our Issaquah programs while volunteering or becoming an intern at Seattle Tilth. Interested?

1. Please complete a required volunteer/intern application.
2. Next, attend a Volunteer Orientation
   
3. Read on for more information about our volunteer and internship opportunities in Issaquah. Contact chrisiberle@seattletilth.org with any questions.
   

Internships

• Garden Steward
  

  Learn about sustainable landscape management and organic food gardening while practicing leadership skills in Seattle Tilth's learning gardens at the Pickering Barn in Issaquah.

Volunteer Opportunities

• Garden Volunteers
  Join a crew to learn about organic gardening with hands-on experience helping build and maintain our community learning garden at the Pickering Barn.
• Children's Education Volunteer Naturalists
  Lead kids on Earth Steward sensory tours of the learning garden as a Volunteer Naturalist. Learn about organic gardening and teaching while having loads of fun.
• Pickering Barn Learning Garden Ambassador
  Represent the Pickering Barn Learning Garden & Seattle Tilth in the garden on Saturdays during market season, mid April to mid October.  Volunteers will be trained but then will be unsupervised at the market.  Garden Ambassadors will talk up Seattle Tilth, our mission, how they can volunteer, give info on plants, upcoming events, classes etc.

• Drain Buttoning Brigades in Issaquah
  Take part in a citywide community service project to protect our waterways by labeling storm drains.

Can't make the next Volunteer Orientation, but want to get started working with us right away?  Try attending a drop-in work party!

• Drop-in "Veggie Crew" Work Parties at the Pickering Barn Learning Garden in Issaquah (1730 10th Ave NW Issaquah, WA 98027)
  Learn about organic food growing techniques and help maintain our community learning garden in with planting, harvesting, weeding and more. Help educate the public and harvest food that we donate to the Issaquah Food Bank.
  Upcoming dates:
  Tues., 10 a.m.-1 p.m.; May 15, 29, June 19
  Sat.,10 a.m.-1 p.m.; May 12, June 9, 16
  Tues., 5-8 p.m.; May 22, June 26
  View the full schedule of our Veggie Crew work parties at all our community learning gardens.
  

Partner Support

This work is made possible through support provided by the King Conservation District and the City of Issaquah's Resource Conservation Office.