Henry Ford Living Campus Workday

Give back to give thanks!

Come help with regular care of our Living Campus garden at Henry Ford Elementary School!  We will start at 9 a.m. and work until our tasks are complete (estimated 11:30 a.m./12:00 p.m.).  Our Living Campus workdays have tasks appropriate for registered volunteers age 5 and up!  See below for COVID protocols.  Bring your masks, water bottles and work gloves!

Tasks may include:

• Weeding beds and planting areas;

• Pruning and harvesting;

• Preparing in-ground furrows & raised garden beds;

• Planting trees, shrubs, and vegetables;

• Mulching, sheet mulching, and/or other ground preparation;

• Trash cleanup, and/or

• Other special tasks to help grow our Living Campus and further EGC’s mission!

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Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, volunteers must observe the following guidelines:

•   Please bring your own masks, gloves, and water bottles.

• To assure compliance with social-distancing and sanitation requirements, all volunteers for this event must be able to comply at all times with social-distancing and mask requirements.

• If you have experienced ANY symptoms of illness in the last 14 days, or if you have had contact with anyone experiencing these symptoms within the last 14 days, please do NOT attend any EGC work event.  Symptoms include, but are not limited to, chills, fever, fatigue, sore throat, muscle soreness, loss of sense of smell, vomiting, abdominal pain, shortness of breath, and/or coughing.

• If within the last 14 days you have come into close contact with anyone who has since tested positive for COVID-19, please do NOT attend any EGC work event prior to obtaining two negative COVID-19 tests spaced two days apart.

• Restrooms WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE during this event.