Ashton House Garden Volunteers Needed
If you’d like to:
- spend some healthy time outside in beautiful surroundings along the Iowa River
- hone your gardening skills — even if you don’t have a garden
- meet other gardening enthusiasts
- contribute to the beauty of your community
Then please consider joining Project GREEN as a Garden Volunteer. The beautiful Project GREEN Gardens at Ashton House are maintained by Project GREEN volunteers, and we’d love for you to join us!
Volunteers are needed Monday mornings, May through October, from 9 – 11 a.m. Volunteers are asked to bring gardening tools for weeding and planting efforts (although if you don’t own any gardening tools, we usually have a few extras on hand).
Ashton House is located at 820 Park Road.
Please contact Diane Allen (319-430-6649 or dlallen16@hotmail.com) to find out more details, and to be included in the weekly email communication about work sessions.
Our fun group of volunteers works on Monday mornings at Ashton House through fall, and we often visit other volunteers’ gardens after the work session for impromptu garden tours. Everyone is welcome!
Check out what our group of volunteers have been doing recently:
Week 10, July 7, 2025 at the Project GREEN Gardens
Hi All, It was a happy morning when Project GREEN volunteers met for their week 10 work session at the Project GREEN Gardens (PGG). Our rain gauge showed 2.4 inches since we last met on June 30! No watering will be needed on our to-do list today. It was 76 degrees at 9 a.m. with…
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Week 9, June 30, 2025 at the Project GREEN Gardens (PGG)
Hi All, Has anyone noticed how quickly the corn is growing??? Nothing like hot, humid and now rainy weather to help Iowa’s corn grow, “Knee high by the Fourth of July.”! Our week 9 at the Gardens began at 9 a.m. with 77 degrees and ended at 11 a.m. with 81 degrees. The air quality…
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Week 8, June 23, 2025, at the Project GREEN Gardens (PGG)
Hi All, We’ve once again had an excellent week at the Project GREEN Gardens. Volunteers began their work early to miss the heat coming for our Monday morning work session. By 9 a.m. it was 82 degrees and rising. The 11 a.m. temperature was 86 degrees. Our air quality was 59, which was described as…
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