Establish a Garden Angel Program

Many groups have had success with what we call the Garden Angel Program. If someone does not want to buy any seeds for their own garden, your volunteer can ask if they would like to be a "Garden Angel" and purchase seeds for a special community garden that your group would sponsor. By doing so, Garden Angels can support your fund raising project as well as donate vegetable, herb or flower seeds to your group's special garden at a town green, a hospice care center, a day care program or a senior citizen center, for example. The Garden Angel program seems to make everyone happy. Often, local newspapers like to take photographs of the volunteer, Garden Angel planting as well as the flowering and harvested results: this publicity helps to promote future seed fund raisers as well.