Application Deadline: October 1, 2025

Notifications of acceptance/wait list placement: October 4th, 2025

Queens County Farm Museum’s Certified Junior Gardener volunteer program is open to middle and high school students between the ages of 12-18. This popular volunteer program is a 9 month, select-Saturday program, where participants will learn new skills, work on various projects primarily outdoors (weather permitting), spend time in nature, and make new friends.

Participants will learn about gardening, hydroponics, colonial and regenerative farming, livestock, forestry, companion planting, pollination, botany, composting, and environmental conservation. Projects include: seeding, planting, transplanting, harvesting, composting, participating in and preparing for Education department workshops, clearing to create and expand our green spaces, creating rock borders and flower beds, indoor projects, mucking stalls, painting signs, and lots of weeding.

Sessions are held on the following Saturdays from 9am – 12pm:

10/11, 10/25, 11/1, 11/15, 12/6, 12/20, 1/10, 1/24, 2/14, 2/28, 3/14, 3/28, 4/11, 4/18, 4/25, 5/9, 5/16, 5/30, 6/6, 6/13