Mission Statement
Our mission is to help those in need through a volunteer effort of planting, picking, and delivering fresh produce, via a unique model that: heightens awareness of socio-economic issues, highlights the importance of local farms, and inspires volunteers across many generations and skill sets.

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Volunteer Opportunities

“You can not do all the good the world needs, but the world needs all the good you can do”
- Anonymous

Ways You Can Help:

  • Adopt the garden for a week (weed, water, pick, deliver)
  • Help on gleaning days
  • Donate excess produce from your own farm or garden
  • Pick up produce at local grocery stores and deliver to food pantries
  • Fundraising
  • Provide accessible land for planting produce
  • Help to develop educational programs for kids

How to Volunteer

E-mail Leena Waite with your availability and what you are interested in doing. We need your e-mail to keep you updated on all of our “goings on” but we promise to keep it to ourselves!

Thank you to our 1,700+ volunteers this season! Here’s a sampling of the 2011 groups who came out to harvest fresh produce for those in need:

AkzoNobel * ARC of Hunterdon County * AT&T * Blair Academy * Camden Youth * Camp YDP from Paterson * Clinton Church of Jesus Christ * Crossroads Christian Academy * Del Val Football Team * ExxonMobil * Girl Scout and Boy Scout Troops of Western NJ* Highland Presbyterian Church * Hunterdon Young Professionals * Hunterdon Youth Services * Jewish Center of Northwest NJ * Johnson & Johnson * Lily of Imclone * Mars * Merck * Merck Child Learning Center * NJ Freeze Hockey Team * North Hunterdon Kiwanis and their 4 sponsored Key Clubs * NYLife * The Pennington School * Presbyterian Church of Chatham Township * Seth & Jackie Flaxman’s Wedding Party * St. Paul Lutheran Church * United Healthcare * Verizon * Zoe Lincoln’s Birthday Crew

Scout Award Project Ideas

Are you a Girl Scout or Boy Scout looking for project ideas to receive an award by supporting the mission of America’s Grow-a-row? Check out our Scout Project Ideas page to get started!

Goings on at America’s Grow-a-Row:

We are gearing up for our 2012 planting and harvesting season!  We’ll be in the fields picking from mid-July until at least early November and we’ll need your help!  We send out an e-mail to our list when we need help on a large scale from the general public.  If you can’t make it, no problem but if you can, you’ll join us in the fields picking produce that will be donated to feeding agencies all over New Jersey.   Volunteers of all ages are welcome, but children under 18 must be supervised by a responsible adult at all times on the farm.  We can also set dates for teams of a dozen or more people to come out and pick.  Those dates are scheduled primarily on weekdays.  If you’d like to bring your family, group, or corporate team out to help or you want to be on the list to receive updates on volunteer opportunities open to the general public, please e-mail leena@americasgrowarow.org.

A Note on Service Hours…

The months of July and August are an awesome time to bang out some of those service hours that your kids need for the next school year.  The month of May, a month before deadlines for school, honor society, confirmation, etc. is not an awesome time to look for volunteer hours at America’s Grow-a-Row (we don’t have any at that time – sorry!).  So, if your child needs service hours, consider coming to one or all of these “public pick” sessions that will start in July.  Come springtime, you’ll be glad you did!