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:
Hi All! Isn’t it beautiful where we garden together? I often wonder who is strolling (sometimes with strollers), running, biking, sitting on park benches, fixing bicycle tires, playing in the park, enjoying time at a couple picnic tables, and staring through our Lunar Horizon moon gate from both sides as we carry on our weekly…
Continue Reading Week 16, August 17, 2026 at the Project GREEN Gardens (PGG)
Hi All, I’ve traveled by the PGG quite a bit this past week. As my home rain gauge water count grew so did my apprehension about the Iowa River staying on its side of the hiking/biking trail. So far, so good, but we’ll see. I am very happy to note there will be no watering…
Continue Reading Week 15, August 10, 2026 at the Project GREEN Gardens (PGG)
Hi All, Not much time to do justice for all the hard work Project GREEN volunteers have contributed to the PGG this past Monday, the beginning of Week 14. Today’s essay will list volunteers who were in attendance Monday morning, August 3. I’ll give an updated Numbers for Week 14. I’ll throw in a few…
Continue Reading Week 14, August 3, 2026 at the Project GREEN Gardens
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