Want to turn your food and garden scraps into some coveted “black gold” this summer? Then come learn how to start your own backyard composting system from the experts at Black Earth Compost! Both the urban and suburban gardener will learn easy, low-stress ways to turn your scraps into a useful organic soil amendment!
Want to turn your food and garden scraps into some coveted “black gold” this summer? Then come learn how to start your own backyard composting system from the experts at Black Earth Compost! Both the urban and suburban gardener will learn easy, low-stress ways to turn your scraps into a useful organic soil amendment!
We rely on our awesome summer intern team to keep everything running in the summer! Help manage the school gardens, lead summer youth programs, or plan and carry out weekly harvest at our community gardens.
Ready to apply? Read the full position description, then email your resume and cover letter to community@backyardgrowers.org
Community Engagement Coordinators (CEC) build the long-term capacity of their host sites by developing culturally inclusive systems, programing, partnerships, and events. By collaborating with community groups, CECs demonstrate how the sustainable use and conservation of land can help address community needs related to education, public health, economic development, neighborhood revitalization, homelessness, poverty, hunger, and cultural decline.
Read the full Community Engagement Coordinator position description here.
Youth Education Coordinators build the long-term capacity of their host site by engaging youth in service learning, experiential education, and inquiry-based science and nature learning projects. They collaborate with schools, libraries, and youth groups on projects that connect young people to the natural world, improve science literacy, and encourage healthy lifestyles.
Read the full Youth Engagement Coordinator position description here.
TerraCorps, formerly MassLIFT-AmeriCorps, is an innovative national service program working to help communities conserve and secure land for the health and well-being of people and nature. Using the AmeriCorps national service model, TerraCorps prepares and mobilizes emerging leaders to help strengthen community-based nonprofits working to meet these goals.
These are full-time AmeriCorps positions requiring a minimum of 1,700 hours of service over 11 months. The 2017-18 TerraCorps program will run from August 28, 2017 – July 27, 2018.
Application specifics, position descriptions, and information about organizations hosting TerraCorps members can be found at terracorps.org.
Applications will be accepted until all positions are filled. Interviews begin mid-April, and we aim to fill all positions by the beginning of June.
AmeriCorps programs provide equal service opportunities. TerraCorps will recruit and select persons in all positions to ensure a diverse and inclusive climate without regard to any particular status. We encourage applications from individuals with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations for interviews and service upon request.
TerraCorps is a grant program of the Corporation for National and Community Service: nationalservice.gov.
Join us for a cooking workshop!Our spring greens are growing, which means it’s almost time to harvest them and cook them up! Join us May 9 & 16 for our spring cooking workshops! May 9th is Kids Night where we will focus on kids learning how to make a fun, healthy recipe. Then May 16th join us and a guest chef to learn some quick, easy recipes straight from the garden. Sign up and buy tickets on our website!
Tuesday, May 9th, Kids Night, 6pm at The Open Door: Tickets here!
Tuesday, May 16th, Guest Chef Presentation, 6:30pm at The Open Door: Tickets here!
Tickets $15 for individuals, $20 for families.
Always wanted to start a backyard compost pile but didn’t know how? Join Backyard Growers and local compost professionals, Black Earth Compost, for this workshop to learn the ins and outs of backyard composting!
Thursday, May 18th, 6 pm, $10 for community members, tickets available here!
Hello Friends of Backyard Growers!
Backyard Growers is one of three finalists in the b.good Family Foundation’s competition to win a $35,000 grant! In all of Greater Boston, we were chosen as one of the finalists because of the work we are doing right here in Gloucester—so proud!
We are now at the public voting stage. Please do the following to help us win!
Thank you!
Lara Lepionka, Executive Director
This April break, join Backyard Growers for one of our exciting workshop offerings!
Community Workshop
You can grow fresh vegetables outside from March through November! Learn how at Extending the Growing Season, taught by local farmer, Tucker Smith. Tucker will show how to construct and use low tunnels and discuss lighting, timing, and ideal cold weather varieties. Reserve your spot here!
Children’s Workshops
Looking for fun kids activities over April break? Bring your children to Backyard Growers for a morning of games, crafts, and stories! They’ll learn about pollinators, make garden art, and leave with their very own herb garden.
Elementary Ages: Monday, April 17, 10-11:30am, Sign up here!
Preschool: Tuesday, April 18, 8:30-10am, Sign up here!
Looking for fun kids activities over April break? Bring your child to Backyard Growers for a morning of games, crafts and stories. Your child will celebrate the coming of spring by learning about pollinators, making garden art and planting with their very own herbs! On Monday, April 17th from 10:00-11:30am, we will be doing activities with elementary age children while Tuesday, April 18th from 8:30-10:00am, activities will be geared toward Preschool and Kindergarten age kids. Each program is $20. To find out more and sign your child up, please visit www.backyardgrowers.org. We look forward to playing and growing with your child over April break!
Grow your own food this season with the help of Backyard Growers! Join us Wednesday for Seed Starting Part 2. Starting your own seeds is a great way to garden more sustainably while also enjoying a wide variety of veggies. Expert Suzanne Gosselin will share her tips and tricks and guide us through planting our first trays of seedlings.
Interested in growing your own vegetables from seed? Join Backyard Growers for Seed Starting Part 2! Starting your own seeds is a great way to garden more sustainably while also enjoying a wide variety of veggies!
Want to grow awesome veggies this summer? We’ve got your back! Join us for our annual Seed Starting Workshop at 7 pm, Thursday March 2 with local gardening expert Suzanne Gosselin to learn the ins and outs of starting seeds indoors.
Also, join us at 6 pm for an Eco Printing Art workshop, as a local artist Jane Keddy shares tips for using natural materials to make prints. You’ll leave this workshop with new inspiration and knowledge for gardening and designing into the spring and summer! Sign up here!
Thu, March 2, 2017
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA
FRESH is a six-week exhibition, with accompanying workshops and presentations, hosted by the Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC) and Backyard Growers.
In this exhibition, artists from all over New England will present works that reflect on the theme FRESH, exploring the ways in which food connects us to the earth, nourishes us, and ties us to warmth, family, friends, and memories. Join us in celebrating the new life that emerges as we leave the dark of winter for the optimism of spring! Contemporary, experimental and traditional art in all media will be on view.
Thank you to our sponsors:
Artscope Magazine, Duckworth’s Bistrot, and Short & Main
Also sponsored by:
Patty Knaggs Real Estate, Peter Dorsey: Coldwell Banker, Beverly, MA: North Shore Abode, and Neptune’s Harvest.
Cape Ann Community 