FARMINGTON – The Hope Harvest Community Garden team is looking for volunteers – adults and children – to help harvest vegetables for local food pantries.

Groups can adopt a week or a day to help at the garden, in two-hour blocks or less. A garden team member guides participation and work can be tailored to the volunteer’s abilities.

All are welcome to come to “Open Garden Tuesdays and Thursdays,” starting July 10 from 5 to 7 p.m.

The Wilton Blueberry Farm has invited all garden volunteers to pick a free quart of blueberries in September.

If your group, business or organization would like to volunteer, or to find out more about the garden, call Eileen Liddy at 645-3136, extension 5113, at the Healthy Community Coalition.

On June 12, Mallett School kindergartners and second-graders harvested the garden’s first spinach, which they delivered to the Care and Share Food Pantry in Fairbanks.

The community garden, located on the grounds of Franklin Memorial Hospital, is sponsored by the Healthy Community Coalition in collaboration with Franklin County Cooperative Extension, Western Maine Community Action, Foster Regional Applied Technology Center and more than 150 volunteers each year.