Hlltop Hanover Farm
Farm workers getting ducklings ready for transportation

BECOME A VOLUNTEER

Whether you want to work in the fields growing vegetables, answer phones in the office or assist with designing brochures we have endless amounts of work to do and we need your help!

The first step to volunteering is to complete our Volunteer Application and Code of Conduct mail to Friends of Hilltop Hanover Farm, PO Box 54, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 or drop to the Farm office at 1271 Hanover Street, Yorktown Heights.   If you have questions call the farm at 962-2368


IBM Volunteers at the Farm

Rebecca Reyes of the Global Technology Division of IBM coordinated a wonderful volunteer effort with regional IBM staff to spend a day helping us out.  On September 26 approximately 20 volunteers from IBM offices around the area arrived at 8:45 a.m. and worked straight through until 4:30 p.m.  The office dwellers exchanged their cubicles and computers to become farmers and forest rangers for a day, helping with weeding, harvesting and trail maintenance.  Thanks to the IBM crew, we harvested over 300 pounds of produce for the local food pantry, a new Hilltop harvesting record!  In addition, we since received many compliments on the trail improvements.  Thank you to all the wonderful IBM staff who participated!  We hope to see you back soon!

Harvesting hot peppers

Harvesting and having fun too!

Packing up the 350 lbs of peppers

Loading produce into the back of the gator.

Group weeding the bed of lettuce mix

Weeding the lettuce bed...
wow there really was lettuce there!

Close up of pepper and cherry tomato harvests

Peppers, peppers and more peppers!

High School Interns

More Interns hard at work

Volunteers starting seeds

Volunteers surveying the field with our Farmer!

THANKS AGAIN TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED!

Volunteering Opportunities at Hilltop Hanover Farm

Whether you want to work in the fields growing vegetables, answer phones in the office or assist with designing brochures we have endless amounts of work to do and we need your help! 

We offer individual and corportate volunteer opportunities, on daily, weekly or once-off basis. Last year we harnessed over 1,700 volunteer hours at the farm, this year we are ramping up vegetable production, programming and outreach and we need enthusiastic volunteers more than ever.  Become part of our farm family and help us make a difference. 

Volunteer tasks include, but are not limited to:

• Docents: Saturdays
• U-Pick Volunteers: Saturdays*
• CSA Harvesting Team: Tuesday mornings*
• Field Team (plants, weeding, watering, etc.): Thursdays*
• Farm Stand Harvesting: Fridays*
• General Office Assistance: 3 hr/wk Tuesday-Saturday
• Bookkeeper: 4 hr/wk, QuickBooks Pro experience required
• Social Media: 2 hr/wk
• Writers: 2 hr/wk
• Design: Signs, brochures, and more
• Communications & Marketing: Committee members
• Fundraising Events: Coordinator and committees for spring, summer and fall Programming/Education
• Naturalists & Educators: school visits, weekends and committee members

  

* Starting in late May.