We welcome volunteers who want to get hands- on with physical tasks such as:

• pulling weeds

• mulching paths

• seeding and transplanting

• space beautification

• preparing growing spaces

• bush honeysuckle removal

• caring for crops and natives

If that’s you or your group, you can sign up for currently available opportunities using the links at the top of the page.

If you don’t see opportunities that work for your schedule, please email volunteer@kcfarmschool.org with a description of your needs and and our volunteer coordinator will follow up with you.

Our event volunteers help us make our plant sales, market, and community events successful.

Event volunteers may be asked to

• greet and assist visitors

• prepare food or wash dishes

• direct traffic

• make plant labels or other pre-event activities

• assist with arts and crafts or educational activity booths

• beautify and prepare the farm to welcome visitors

• assist with set-up and take down the day of an event

• help vendors load and unload vehicles

More info on specific needs for each event will be in the event signup at the top of the page.

We have ongoing opportunities for folks with a diversity of skillsets to get involved on the farm.

These opportunities are not scheduled through our website; folks sharing their skills with us typically volunteer independently and on a schedule that works for them. 

Additional volunteering opportunities with KCFS include but are not limited to:

• Funding/Org Development 

• Admin/ Tech work

• Caring for our book and tool lending libraries

• Skilled labor: carpentry, plumbing, tool maintenance etc

• Hosting an education booth at our farmer’s market

• Joining a committee

If you'd like to learn more about any of the opportunities above or discuss a potential volunteering collaboration not listed here, please volunteer@kcfarmschool.org

Bring your classmates, religious community, coworkers, corporate group, team, professional organization etc on-farm hands on!

Our volunteer visits offer opportunities for agricultural education through joining us hand-on in some farm work.

Volunteers of all ages are welcome; we ask that youth under 13 be chaperoned while volunteering on-farm.

If you are looking for a group volunteering opportunity where the majority of volunteers are under 18, we ask that you book a service learning field trip visit https://www.kcfarmschool.org/field-trip

We welcome people of all ages, ancestries, and abilities on-farm hands-on. If you or members of your group are in need of accommodations in order to make volunteering on-farm more accessible, please send an email to volunteer@kcfarmschool.org with a description of your needs and our volunteer coordinator will follow up with you.