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:
August 19, 2024 Project GREEN Gardens, Week 16 summary
Hi All, Our week 16 at the Project GREEN Gardens was a nice morning with a temperature of 67 degrees. Our rain gauges showed a little more than 3 inches of rain since we last met. Watering our plants will not be necessary this week! There were 16 volunteers in attendance for week 16 and…
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Week 15, Tuesday August 13 (rain date)
Hi All, We are heading into the end of August. Let’s get organized and set accomplishable goals! There were 12 volunteers who worked at the Project GREEN Gardens during week 15. Here is the list of Project GREEN’s exceptional gardeners in attendance: Dhyana Kaufman (1-hr, Monday, 8/12), Jim Peters, Lisa Haverkamp, Susan Ahrens, Cindy Parsons,…
Week 14, August 5, 2024 – Project GREEN Gardens (PGG)
Hi All, Thirteen volunteers met this past Monday for our weekly work session at the PGG. As we began our work, it was 79-degrees and our gauges collected 3/4 inch of rain since last week. Those in attendance were: Linda Bergquist, Susan Ahrens, Pat Yeggy, Hetty Hall, Jim Peters, Monica Hoherz, Nick Goergen, Rina Sjolund,…
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