Group Volunteers
Short on time for regular volunteering? Looking for a way to give back to your community while connecting with colleagues and enjoying nature? Or perhaps you're an educator seeking a hands-on experience for your students to learn about botany? Whatever your reason, we are excited to help your organization get involved.
Most group service projects focus on gardening-related tasks or event support and can typically be completed within a morning during a weekday or Saturday. These opportunities are available to a variety of community groups including schools, churches, and corporate groups, and fellow nonprofits.
Requirements for Group Volunteers:
A group application must be submitted at least two weeks prior to your earliest requested project date.
Groups must consist of 5 or more participants.
Participants must be 18 years and older OR 14 - 17 years of age if accompanied by an adult chaperone.
Each participant must sign the Garden’s Volunteer Agreement, Waiver & Release form.
Example List of Group Projects:
English ivy removal along the Garden’s Dogwood Walking Trail: Support the health of our arboretum by aiding invasive species removal efforts.
Clearing out community garden beds: Help prepare raised garden beds for community use for the upcoming culinary growing season by weeding and removing invasive Bermuda grass.
Spreading wood chips through Every Child Outdoors Garden pathways: Help our youngest gardeners start the growing season off right with reinvigorated pathways surrounding our 18-raised bed youth vegetable garden.
Plant new trees and transplant saplings to Native Plant Recue Squad: Help rehome plants to a partner non-profit organization to support the population of native trees across Eastern Tennessee.
Beautify Garden bed along Houston Street: Beautify a prominent bed on the grounds by clearing weeds, relocating desirable plants, and managing overgrowth to support the health of existing botanicals.