All Outdoor Leadership

The Youth Food & Farm Forum engages youth in education and participation of sustainable farming. The event featured interactive sessions including vegan cooking, equity 101, seed saving, hog butchering, and holistic health through food. The event was attended by an extremely diverse group of youth, ages 13-23, from across Alabama. Read more...

Would you like to spend your time helping others while learning about archaeology and Southeastern Indians? Can you spare 8 or more hours a month? If you answered yes to these questions, consider volunteering with us. Moundville has many different volunteer opportunities — from gardening and guiding tours to helping with arts and crafts classes. Read more...

Guided trips are offered throughout the semester. Most trips are geared towards entry-level activities and aim to teach participants baseline knowledge of the activity. Gear, guides, and a ride are included. Trips can include hiking, backpacking, rock climbing, bouldering, canoeing and more. Read more...

All kinds of rewarding volunteer opportunities are available at the National Forests in Alabama, including trail maintenance, fish and wildlife management, recreation area management, environmental education, interpretation, public information plus many other things. Your talents and skills are matched with your work preference to obtain a role that satisfies you and best fulfills the mission of the Forest Service. Youth Read more...

While park staff performs many of the daily tasks and duties it takes to operate, volunteers are vital to Alabama’s state parks. The Volunteer In Parks (VIP) program was created to allow individuals or groups to make a difference at their favorite park. VIP participants make a positive impact year-round in each of the state’s 21 parks. Support Groups organize Read more...

Team Building can help your group break down personal barriers and remove distractions by providing hands on experiences that encourage individuals to contribute to collective goals. Let Shocco motivate your group to work together to develop their strengths and address any weaknesses through our customized team-building experiences. Read more...

he mission of Green Initiative at UAB is to establish environmentally-friendly policies on campus, raise environmental awareness, and help students become involved in serving UAB and the Birmingham area. We partner with various student and community organizations, and past programs have included guests speakers, sustainability workshops, waste audits, and volunteer opportunities. Read more...

The UM Environmental Club works to educate Montevallo students and the surrounding community about solutions which improve the environmental stability of our society. Of late, our focus has been the implementation into university structure of a program that promotes avenues for making ethical decisions about energy consumption, food practices, and funding for green enterprise. We also work to improve the Read more...

Each year, a select group of Woodlawn High School students have the opportunity to participate in a paid apprenticeship for course credit. In this High School Apprenticeship, students manage a 2-acre urban farm on their school’s campus and sell the food they grow directly to residents of the Woodlawn community. Read more...

BBG’s plant conservation programs are multifaceted, with numerous opportunities for engaging the public and citizen volunteers. Aspects of our plant conservation programs, all of which are presented in an educational context for our volunteers, include: Field Work: population monitoring, seed and cutting collection, habitat management, invasive plant eradication; Greenhouse Work: propagation, potting, weeding, watering; Collections Work: a full range of Read more...