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 15, August 11, 2025 Project GREEN Gardens (PGG)
Hi All, Sorry for the late summary of last week’s progress at the PGG! I do have a good excuse, I think. My usual Sunday afternoon time at the computer for Project GREEN was interferred today by watching the Indiana Fever overcome the Connecticut Sun in OVERTIME! Please forgive me and let’s get on with…
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Week 13, July 31, 2025 Project GREEN Gardens (PGG)
Hi All, We cancelled our usual Monday work session (July 28) as early morning rain and high humidity with HEAT interfered with our plans. A few Project GREEN volunteers went ahead with the Monday plans and put in time for weeding. Otherwise we organized our week 13 plans for Thursday, July 31 from 9 -…
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Week 12, July 21, 2025 Project GREEN Gardens (PGG)
Hi All, We had a wonderful turn-out for our twelfth week together at the PGG! There were 16 (my favorite number!) Project GREEN volunteers in attendance Monday, July 21. They were: Diane Allen (4 hours), Jim Peters (3 hours), Susan Ahrens, Mary Laughlin, Nick Goergen, Chris Ostrander (2 1/2 hour), Evelyn Frey, Monica Hoherz, Rina…
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