Get your hands dirty and volunteer with us!

In 2024, 583 volunteers gave over 2,500 hours.

Volunteers have been a vital part of the success of Growing Places Indy. Our volunteers help perform many tasks, including weeding, harvesting crops, seeding, removing debris, building, and more. Volunteer groups remain critical to the success of our Upick garden in White River State Park. Submit a volunteer request below.

Group Volunteer Opportunities

We are able to host groups at White River State Park for volunteering opportunities, depending on the time of year and workload on the farm. We will do our best to organize projects to accommodate groups of various sizes. If you’d like to bring a group to the farm, please submit the following form with your request.

Individual Volunteer Opportunities

We are pleased to direct individual volunteer interest to Helpings of Hope, now stewards of the Boner Fitness and Learning Center Gardens.

If you are a non-profit urban farm/garden in need of volunteers, we’d be happy to list you here. Send your volunteer contact information to info@growingplacesindy.org.

We will update this information when we are able to accommodate individual volunteers.

Walking or Biking to the Garden

If you can walk, bike, skateboard, or otherwise travel to the garden without a car, please do! It will save you the extra steps of parking, and we are located at the intersection of the Cultural Trail and Canal Walkway, so it’s super easy!

Parking for U-Pick & Yoga

Typically, you can park in the surface lot, or the underground parking lot. You enter both from the WRSP main entrance at 801 W. Washington St. To enter the underground parking, you will turn right at the park entrance and drive past the Visitor’s Center, Wheel Fun and the garden as you follow the driveway to the parking garage entrance. You will get a ticket as you enter the garage. A GPI team member will have parking vouchers. Please remember to get one as soon as you arrive to the garden. You will use your parking voucher to exit the parking garage.

During Event Parking

If there is an Event, you will need to park in the underground garage BEFORE 4:30 p.m. in order for your voucher to provide free parking. Typically the surface lot will be closed during events.