Membership is a direct way of showing your support and intention to participate in making our community a bright-spot of hope and generosity for sharing and learning together. 

Annual membership cost is a sliding scale of $100, $50 or $15 and free for Indigenous community members. These fees help cover our annual expenses such as bookkeeping software, insurance, and costs connected to being a registered non-profit . 

An annual membership purchase in EartHand gives the member the ability to register for our  sliding-scale programs- get your membership early and participate in the vote for what programs we create.

Membership dues are not required to participate in the garden stewardship sessions. A limited number of both free and paid workshops are offered outside of the membership program.

Membership includes:

• Inclusion in the EartHand Membership Slack Channel to connect with other members, 
• Access to the members list to help you find other makers curious to learn along-side or willing to share techniques.
• An open invitation to Members’ Socials hosted 3-7pm most Fridays at Trillium Park through the growing season ( May to October).
• Access to the Members’ Event calendar and booking system for registration in sliding scale paid programs.
• A vote at the 26 AGM (to be held in Feb ’27)
• An invitation to step into community! Bring your skills, curiosity, and generosity and participate in building and maintaining  both our community governance and gardens.

Please select which sliding scale option for membership you are able to afford. (This has no bearing on which of the future sliding scale options you choose for workshops).

We are making this up as we go along, building up EartHand into an Urban Skillshed/Fibreshed Village-like community. 

We each decide how we can show up, what we can bring, and know that each one of us is enough as we are and do the best that we can.

In the near future we look forward to working with our membership to further develop our conflict resolution process and other community-based structures that keep us collectively strong, accountable and resilient.

Purchase your membership and get started!

• Purchase your 2026 membership through zeffy – link just above.

Note, Zeffy is our free, Canadian ticket provider – you can change the amount of tip you wish to leave zeffy to 0%, or choose a set $ amount instead of the preset 15%. Zeffy offers non-profits like EartHand Gleaners a no-fees ticketing service so 100% of  your membership payment comes to us. Any tip you wish to leave zeffy is your choice.

After completing your membership purchase you will receive a confirmation email with links to support next steps in participating in EartHand’s programming for 2025, including:

Background:

Since its founding in 2013,  beyond  a volunteer board of directors that supported  the volunteer work of  the executive director /artistic director, EartHand has had stewardship at the centre of most community  volunteering opportunities.

In 2025, we are cracking that open and  finding new ways of creating spaces for meaningful participation.  We are working to flatten our decision making process and ‘putting on hold’ the role of the Executive Director, while opening up what our Board of Directors  can look like within the constitutional limits of our Non-Profit.

In thinking about programs, community activation and individual participation and  self-defined roles:

What if we collectively agree just about anything could be a “pilot program”? 

What can we learn from trying new models of gathering?

Let’s  work our way into new  networks that  build up our social governance for collective learning and mutual support! 

As the ecosystem for non profit operation funding  gets  more precarious and less sustainable, our primarily  volunteer-based model for ‘getting things done’ makes even more sense.