Gardening

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The volunteering opportunities featured are related to Gardening.

If you are into Gardening, or if you would love to learn how to grow your own organic vegetables & fruits, you could become a volunteer gardener and join a farm or a community in need, everywhere around the world.  Check the announcements below and see if you can find anything interesting!

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How to use this page.

Click on the announcement you like. Check the date of the publication (some opportunities in Africa might be already expired). If the announcement is still valid, look for the ‘contact details‘ section. There you can find free ways to get in touch with the hosts (website, e-mail, phone numbers, application form). Send the host/organization a message and wait for a reply.

Volunteering opportunities related to Gardening:

Raised beds and cold frames on a green urban allotment in Manchester, with brick paths and young vegetable plants.

Urban Manchester gardening work exchange (mid-March to mid-April)

Traditional brick buildings on a narrow lane in Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom, close to the volunteer host location.

Volunteer exchange in Lewes, East Sussex: eco farm help and wellness suite project

Stone doorway in a rugged old wall framing a view of the blue sea and cliffs on Milos island, Cyclades, Greece.

Live on a secluded beachfront estate in Milos, Greece (summer 2026)

Project Urkraft volunteer farm in Westerbroek, Groningen, chickens and ducks in a rustic courtyard.

Volunteer on a community farm project near Groningen with Project Urkraft

Ribeira Sacra, Galicia: the Sil canyon viewpoints, monasteries, and heroic vineyards

We need help renovating a pawsome old house in Galicia – Spain 🇪🇸

Small red cabin by a calm lake, surrounded by pine and birch forest in rural Sweden, with mossy rocks along the shore.

Tiny house volunteer Sweden: eco-building & gardening in Västmanland 🇸🇪

Collage of volunteers in Georgia mixing earth and straw, building with natural materials, shaping adobe bricks, and gathering outdoors near a stone tower in the hills around Nichbisi.

Earth building volunteer project in Nichbisi, Georgia (Nadi)

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Volunteer in Ghana at an eco-farm and regenerative center!

View of the Volcán de Fuego de Colima from the Roca de Hadas eco village in South Jalisco, Mexico.

Permaculture and eco building volunteer project in Jalisco, Mexico 🇲🇽

A dramatic view of the Castello della Pietra (Castle of the Stone) built into a rocky cliffside in Vobbia, Liguria, Italy, at sunset.

Eco-villa renovation volunteer project in Italy 🇮🇹 🇪🇺

Collage from a rural volunteer project near Lisbon, Portugal: host holding wild mushrooms, cloistered farmhouse, sunset on a rocky coast, green parrot in an aviary, a circle of cats eating on patterned tiles, and a garden scene with a cat by a pebble mound and tree.

Volunteer in rural Portugal near Lisbon: animals, garden and DIY

Peaceful Alentejo, Portugal scene—organic farm fields and garden on a permaculture project offering food and accommodation.

Helping in an organic farm with permaculture principles in Alentejo Portugal 🇵🇹

Bhakti Yoga volunteer program poster in Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico, promoting a temple construction project at an ashram (Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math Ticul also styled as “El Templo Hindú”) with shared dorms, vegetarian meals, 5 hours a day.

Bhakti Yoga temple construction volunteer in Yucatán, Mexico

Berry farm volunteering in the Italian Alps, Val di Sole: picking fruit, packing harvest, raspberry with ladybug and bright sunflower.

Dolomites work exchange | food and stay included 🇮🇹 🇪🇺

Group of children outside a community school in Bugembe, Jinja Uganda, part of Mothers and Children Uganda’s volunteer program

Empower women and children in the rural communities of Jinja

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