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 7, June 16, 2025 at the Project GREEN Gardens (PGG)
Hi All, Gardeners began working at the PGG early for week 7. It was 75-degrees and muggy when I arrived at the Project GREEN Gardens by 8:15 a.m. Two volunteers were watering different locations around the Gardens beginning at 8 a.m. Some of our coffee group arrived early before the usual 8:30 a.m. time and…
Continue Reading Week 7, June 16, 2025 at the Project GREEN Gardens (PGG)
Week 6, Monday, June 9, 2025 Project GREEN Gardens (PGG)
Hi All, Our PGG work is going quickly this year. We are remembering week 6’s challenge of watering the 2025 Gardens which explains how we have over 300 volunteer hours together. Johnson County is now considered 100% as “Abnormally Dry” according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. It’s possible we will need to water more than…
Continue Reading Week 6, Monday, June 9, 2025 Project GREEN Gardens (PGG)
Week 5, Project GREEN Gardens, Monday June 2, 2025
Hi All, We had a wonderful day of gardening this past Monday, which began week #5 at the Gardens. June 2nd at 9 a.m. had 69-degree temps with air quality 53, described as moderate. The Canadian fires continue to burn which fill our Iowa skies with smoke. I plan to keep track of Iowa City’s…
Continue Reading Week 5, Project GREEN Gardens, Monday June 2, 2025
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