Volunteer Programs

They include assisting with the following activities (but are not limited to!):

• Repair and maintain Earth-friendly dwellings such as strawbale and passive solar building

• Trim vegetation around grounds & buildings and on trails

• Upgrade solar collection systems
• Garden organically (perhaps as a Willing Worker On Organic Farms, or WWOOFer)
• Organize and catalogue Resource Center library
• Raise funds
• Publicize Narrow Ridge events
• Publish the RENEWAL newsletter
• Become a member of the Board of Directors
• Develop and manage the property and asset database
• Keep records of financial information
• Research state-of-the-art sustainable technologies and construction practices
• Help with construction of environment-responsibly designed homes on surrounding land trusts

If you are interested in a satisfying volunteering experience, please call us at (865) 497-2753 or email us at community@narrowridge.org. We will be happy to show you how your creative skills and interests can be integrated into the Narrow Ridge community.

Earth's Desire

To be seen in her loveliness
To be tasted in her delicious fruits
To be listened to in her teaching
To be endured in the severity of her discipline
To be experienced as the maternal source whence we come, the destiny to which we return.

        - Thomas Berry