George Washington Carver Scholar volunteers at Reiman Gardens

Reiman Gardens makes your volunteer experience easy! Create an account, then have access to all of Reiman Gardens' volunteer opportunities. Use our easy calendar or departmental list to find opportunities that work with your schedule and match your personal interests. Volunteers' hours are easily recorded in your personal account, making tracking and end-of-semester reporting easy. Our Manager of Volunteer Engagement has created easy step-by-step instructions and a fillable PDF file to make documentation and turning in your forms easy.

What kind of volunteering can you do at Reiman Gardens?

  • gardening - outdoors (April-November) and indoors (year-round)
  • education - pre-K weekly story hours, garden tours, school field trip tours, day camps, and more
  • entomology - get trained to work in our USDA-approved butterfly wing (multiple daily shifts available)
  • events - help us with our most exciting public events throughout the year, like Winter Wonderscape and Spirits in the Gardens
  • office work - assist our office staff with mailing, filing, copying, spreadsheets, and research projects
  • at-home projects - cut out stencils, record audio files for self-guided tours, create coloring book pages, and more
  • on-site projects - craft decorations for the garden, build and install exhibits, pack kits for upcoming programs
  • and much more!

Reiman Gardens always has a multitude of different volunteering opportunities to choose from, and with the easy-to-navigate volunteer website, I was able to pick shifts that best aligned with my interest and time. The staff's encouragement and flexibility helped make my experiences volunteering there memorable.

Nehal Sankaranthi, volunteer, GWC scholar, ISU graduate '24

Volunteers pose for a photo before heading out to help staff.

For further information please contact:

 

Kim Hope
Manager of Volunteer Engagement
Reiman Gardens
Iowa State University
1407 University Blvd
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: 515-294-8225
Email: rgvolunteers@iastate.edu