Volunteer:

Current Volunteers

For more information about volunteer service areas, expectations and benefits along with an application form, please review the Volunteer application package in PDF format.

Flutter in the Magic!

Butterfly Magic, the Gardens’ tropical butterfly exhibit, will return November 1, 2008. Many exciting volunteer opportunities are available. Come learn about the lifestyles of these flighty and fancy creatures, as well as the USDA regulations which ensure their protection. We’d love to have you at whatever level you can contribute. If you would like more information, please contact Maggie Taylor at 326-9686, ext. 27, or email at info@tucsonbotanical.org. If you would like to apply, please print and mail the application to the Gardens at Maggie's attention.

Butterfly Magic Volunteer Application

Volunteer Opportunities include:

Grounds: Grounds volunteers assist gardeners in maintaining the Garden exhibits by weeding, watering, pruning, planting, etc., under the supervision of the grounds staff.

Gift Shop: Volunteers who work in the Gift Shop sell merchandise, inventory stock, and price and display items. They also provide information on the Garden's programs and services, including membership, and offer general information to out-of-town visitors about the area.

Adult Education: The Gardens offers many regularly scheduled guided tours of the grounds during fall, winter, and spring, and needs enthusiastic and knowledgeable volunteers to serve as tour guides. Volunteers may also deliver educational slide programs off-site as part of a speakers' bureau.

Volunteer distributing information

Youth Education: Opportunities include delivering the school outreach programs to elementary and secondary classrooms and leading school groups on guided tours of the grounds. Also, many volunteers choose to become involved in the summer youth programs.

Horticultural Therapy: Volunteers work primarily with the elderly or disabled to deliver planting/propagating and simple plant craft activities. Some sites have outdoor gardens for their clients, and TBG volunteers assist in the maintenance of these gardens.

Volunteer Field Trip

Special Events: Volunteers contribute many hours assisting with special events at the Gardens. These include A Butterfly Affaire, Fall and Spring Plant Sales, Luminaria Nights, Herb Fair, Home Garden Tour, Garden Art silent auction, and other special functions.

Resource Center/Library: Volunteers help catalog and reshelve books and maintain a computerized card catalog as well as answering gardening questions from the public.

Office Support: Volunteers offer clerical assistance, including computer data entry, photocopying, and bulk mailing.

To learn more about volunteering at the Gardens, call (520) 326-9686 ext. 39 or e-mail
volunteer@tucsonbotanical.org.