Volunteers GIVE BIG!

The end of April wrapped up National Volunteer Month and it means a LOT to Farmer Frog because we are an organization built around community. Every year we rely on hundreds of dedicated volunteers to help us distribute food, grow food, and educate about best practices to sustain a healthy ecosystem in the Pacific Northwest.

This year, our focus has been building up our new educational farm site— BearGrass Farm. With the help of staff, volunteers, and community-based partnerships, we are building a cornerstone for regional food security and ecosystem health. April continued to fill us with gratitude for the outpouring of support that is making this vision a reality.

On April 15th, T-mobile returned for another year of dirtying their shoes and breaking a sweat with 150+ volunteers helping to place fence posts, weeding raise gardens, and planting trees, shrubs, and flowers.

THE NEXT Farm Raising Event will be on:

Saturday June 22nd, Summer Solstice

BearGrass Farm is four times larger than our previous site and, over time, we will be able to serve more people than we currently are. However, the site had no buildings, fences or greenhouses when we took the land over a year ago. We started building from the ground up.

We are aiming to raise $100,000 for the following needs:

Fencing – $30,000

Aquaponics System – $25,000

Hoop Houses – $25,000

Gardens, Children's Learning Garden & Orchards – $20,000

These cocoons were generously donated by Crown Bees, a local business promoting awareness and care for Washington’s native bees.

If you have a good home to host them—lots of natural dead trees and/or a mason bee nest box—just let us know you’d like to adopt. 

Email shea@farmerfrog.org to connect with cocoons, offered at no cost to you.

Bring your abundance of plants, extra hand tools, extra boots, extra sunhats!

Leave with a treasure, maybe even make a friend!

This is a free event, you don't have to bring anything to participate.

Visit here for more info.