There are quite a few BIG DEALIO events in the pipeline for the spring and summer that I could really use a lot of helpers and/or maybe a person who wants to be Co-In-Charge of one or more of them. Email a reply which let’s me know which one you’d like to help with and we’ll figure out when we can meet and get more details taken care of. I will need your telephone number too, please.
The events coming up are:
Earth Warming Party/OPEN HOUSE, Saturday April 24th 10am-4pm. See our
first one here–LOTS of activities planned for that day. We need folks to grab a handful of invitational leaflets and pass them out. We will have volunteers from students at BUFF State for setup/day-of and they’ll be with us until about noon, but then we’ll need folks for the rest of the day. We need volunteers to help with Garden/Store/Tool Library TOURS, registering people for Tool Library, setting up tables for the other guest nonprofits and service groups, setting up and playing games with the kids, operating the grill, manning seedling swap table, event clean up and more. Potluck dishes needed too.
Potluck for the May 1st Tree Planting: We plant from 9-3pm and finish with a potluck. I try not to micromanage potlucks–we are happy with whatever we get, but If folks are willing to bake muffins, cookies, breads it staves off the appetite until the afternoon. Then, hopefully, we’ll have an assortment of sandwiches or crockpots of goodness or bags of chips or buns&weiners. I need a Grub Coordinator so I can focus on the trees and people planting. You’d be in charge of getting tables setup and fielding dishes as they come in, the grill, water coolers, coffee pots, garbage cans etc. Cooking is a form of volunteering; so feel free to drop off a box of apples or a covered dish.
Waffle Breakfast Plate Fundraiser (for the garden program) Saturday, May 8th: LOTS of planning still needed for this. We need ingredients for vats of batter, borrowing of waffle irons, we need ironers and servers and folks to collect funds. I will also be eating worms and if you know other folks with COURAGEOUS palettes–heck, I’ll settle for people who were born without tastebuds–but if I’m the only one eating worms I guess I can stomach it as long as the donations come in! We’ll need help with publicity and setting up the camp kitchen and tables etc.
Salad Smorgabord & Seedling Swap: May 22nd Essentially, it’s a garden work day with a salad buffet; lettuce optional! Again, we need a Grub Coordinator–and folks to help setup the buffet table and chairs. Folks bring whatever kind of salad they would like to share. We will also harvest whatever we can that day and prep salads using whatever might be available!
Pickle Eating Contest: very beginning planning stages–date set for Saturday, July 3rd. Essentially, there’s about 2hrs worth a pickle shenanigans. I have a list of short competitions which will make up an intersting platform of events. It will take longer to plan this than it will to actually do it, but it will be a blast! I’ve got a call out to gardeners to grow cucumbers and we’ll need to project out harvests and pickling parties and sort cucumbers etc etc.
Please email Caesandra and Rachel at volunteer {at} buffaloreuse(.)org if you can assist with any components of these events.
You are probably seeing more and more rain barrels popping up in gardens, driveways, and backyards — if you haven’t found one for yourself yet, look no further.
