Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteer season varies with the time of the year. During the spring and fall, there are volunteer hours from 10 to noon or 1 - 3 pm every weekday, except Thursday afternoon. Other times of the year such as summertime, there are projects such as weeding the flower beds and deadheading annuals that can be done on the volunteers’ own schedule. Summertime (June - August) also provides volunteers with opportunities to help in the monarch tent rearing monarch butterflies from caterpillars all the way to tagging and releasing them. Special projects in the park are always ongoing and we welcome anyone to join special teams set up to implement these projects. Whether you are an individual who loves plants, a company or school class wanting to work on a community project, a family looking for a bonding experience by helping, or a student looking for a volunteering opportunity, we have something we’d love you to help with!

Plant sales are held in the spring during Easter and Mother’s Day weekends. A Holiday Open House is held during early December. All events are designed to show off the permanent collections and the plants being readied for planting in the city flower beds. See Volunteer Schedue tab for more info.

If you're interested in volunteer opportunities at the Noelridge Greenhouse and Gardens please contact us using the form to the left.

Noelridge volunteers contribute over 3600 hours of time each year. Our volunteers are a fun-loving and hard working group. Whatever your skill or talent, an appropriate task is always available. You simply need to be ready to have fun.

Volunteers have an annual potluck in January to kick off the growing season. Propagation and preparation for the season begin in a big way at that time. Volunteer opportunities inside the Greenhouse wind down in May. Then, volunteer opportunities are needed outside to help with planting and maintaining the 35 outdoor garden beds, and assisting in the Monarch tent. Once the beds are planted, the City staff waters them throughout the summer with help from volunteers in weeding and deadheading. Hours during the summer months are variable, as weeding and butterfly duties can be done on a volunteer’s own time schedule. In September, it’s back to inside work: cuttings are taken from the gardens and volunteers work to get the newly propagated plants established inside the greenhouse, to be used for next season’s flower plantings. Additionally, bulbs are planted and put in coolers to force for display at the Spring Showcases.