Sign in to view your email alerts and activity

Sign in

To view your email alerts and activity.
We will send you an email to confirm your email address.

Volunteer Gardener

First Steps Count
Logo for First Steps Count
  • Work as part of a team.

  • Greet any community members in the Garden courteously, making them feel welcome to visit or participate in the Garden.

  • Being a friendly face for visitors to the garden, answering any questions they may have.

  • Helping out with the planned development of the garden.

  • Encourage appropriate behaviour from Garden visitors if necessary.

  • Refer to the Garden duty list for detailed duties and activities.

  • Record your attendance in the First Steps Count Volunteer book.

  • Gardeners undertake various tasks to do with cultivating, growing, harvesting and maintaining plants and gardens. Duties may include maintaining lawn edging, weeding and watering plants, preparing garden sites using hand tools and planting and transplanting seeds, bulbs, flowers, and shrubs. Removing rubbish from gardens, sweeping pathways.