Individual Volunteer Information
Volunteers are encouraged to dress appropriately (no open-toed sandals!), wear a hat, and apply sunscreen and insect repellant. Volunteers are responsible for providing any beverages they wish to drink and food they wish to consume. Bring plenty of liquids year round, but particularly during the summer months. Individuals are are always needed. Days and times can be flexible.
Various Locations
Keeper of the Hose- As the park continues to recover, we are in the process of raising funds and trying to install irrigation in many of the areas where volunteers and donors have been kind enough to donate plants and their time to plant them. In the meantime, “I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”
--Mahatma Ghandi we are in need of volunteers to help us water these plants and flowers. Please email Jim Morrison if you can help.
Botanical Garden
Garden Volunteers- Volunteers are welcome Monday-Friday between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Possible tasks include propagating plants for the garden and for plant sales, planting, weeding, trimming, pruning, deadheading, collecting seed, removing or installing christmas lights, and other tasks as needed.
Volunteers are requested to bring a trowel, hand pruners, gloves, and a hat if available.
School Tour Guides- The Botanical Garden's volunteer school tour guides lead tours of children in grades K through 8. Tours are offered on Tuesday through Friday Mornings at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. in Spring and in Fall. Volunteers are trained and scheduled for groups and times based on his/her availability. This program offers a wonderful opportunity to work with children from throughout the New Orleans area, sharing your interest in gardening and spurring an interest in others. For more information, call (504)483-9386.
Garden Maintenanace Specialty Volunteers- The Botanical Garden is searching for Maintenance-minded folks who would like to volunteer on a regualar basis to assist with a wide range of recurring maintenance projects ranging 
from daily activities such as leaf blowing to monthly activities such as changing air filters. For more information, please email Reece with the subject line "maintenance volunteer info".
Around the Park
Given our depleted staff we are not in the position to instruct and supply tools to individual volunteers during the week. That said, there is work for you to do. In the past we seldom if ever asked volunteers to pick up trash in the park. Post-Katrina all that has changed as we simply don’t have the staff or equipment to pick up and remove trash. So, if you are willing and have some time during the week, feel free to bring some trash bags and fill them up. If you can haul them away, great. If not, please leave the tied-up trash bags along the side of a roadway.
Super Saturday groups meet in front of Storyland on Victory Ave.
