Volunteering at the Arboretum
Next Volunteer Meeting: Saturday March 3 2012 at 9:00 a.m.
The Pinecote Press Volunteer Newsletters (.pdf)
Volunteers at The Crosby Arboretum fill a variety of vital roles, both
behind the scenes tending plants, maintaining trails, stuffing envelopes,
and assisting with construction and before the public as tour guides,
gift shop assistants, and admission greeters. Both the task and the time
are fitted to individual volunteers; some volunteers give of their time
one day a week, others give a few hours a month. The Crosby Arboretum
welcomes volunteers with a wide range of interests and talents.
The Crosby Arboretum, Mississippi State University Extension Service, is looking for some good volunteers! Whether you have a few hours a month, a few weekends out of the year or just a few weeks while you are relocated to the coast for the winter, we have a place for you.
Students! The Crosby Arboretum is the perfect place for students to expand their resume for college applications and scholarship applications with volunteer service.
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Call for Volunteers:
02/27/12 Volunteer Tour Guides/Docents needed. We will train you!
02/13/12 Volunteers needed for: Maintenance needs- help pressure
washing bridges, cleaning kiosk’s, cleaning and painting front gates,
painting sign boards in the greenhouse and weeding.
01/19/12 Volunteers
needed to inventory and clean-up the nursery stock area and prepare plants for upcoming plant sales in Feb and April.
01/13/12 Volunteers are needed to work the ticket booth at the front parking lot here at the Arboretum. Volunteers are needed in shifts from 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. and again from 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Your main goal is to greet arriving visitors, hand out visitor maps and direct them to the Arboretum Visitor Center. If you have any questions or would like to sign-up, call Robin at 601-799-2311, x 104.
Examples of Volunteer Tasks:
Outdoor:
*Walking the trails to clean sign posts
* Sweeping decks and cleaning chairs
*Power-washing gates, decks, bridges and pavilion floor
*Using leaf blower to clean trails of leaves and pine needle debris
*Weeding children's garden
*Cleaning the greenhouse
*Assisting with plant sales
*Tour guides!
*Assisting with our larger
events
*Painting gates and visitors center walls
*Ticket Booth: greeting guests, handing out maps, handing out fish food
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Indoor:
*Scrapbooking the Arboretum's newspaper clippings, magazine articles, etc.
*Filling fish food bags for public
*Making copies of handouts
*Answering the phones on event days
*Manning the membership table on event days |
For more
information about volunteering at the Arboretum, call Robin Veerkamp at
(601) 799-2311 ext. 104 or email at robinv@ext.msstate.edu
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