Gain valuable gardening experience while helping your local parks and community! Sign-up to be part of a team of people who design, implement and care for the native plant gardens. Staff will meet you in the spring to get you started. You choose the day and time to visit and tend to the garden. We will supply the plants and tools you need for a successful garden.

Process:

March: Email Stewardship Specialist Hayley Barrett to communicate your interest in native plant gardening with the Wood County Park District. You are encouraged to attend the informational session and planning meeting.

April: Volunteers meet to plan, request plants, and identify needs

May - October: Garden volunteering

Expectations

• Visit of once a week (solo) or twice a month (group)
• A group log so members know who visited and did what
• Try to keep garden free of weeds
• Water as needed (especially new plantings)
• Plans for plants and map of their locations
• Request materials as needed (with a three-day advance notice)
• One spring cleanup and fall wrap-up.

Your team chooses the days and times to visit and tend to the garden. The Wood County Park District will supply the plants and tools you need for a successful garden. Log your hours and add them to this website. 

Adopt-a-Garden Parks include:

• Black Swamp Preserve
• Bradner Preserve
• Cedar Creeks Preserve 
• J.C. Reuthinger Memorial Preserve - New Swallowtail Butterfly Garden
• Otsego Park
• William Henry Harrison Park
• W.W. Knight Nature Preserve

Our new Swallowtail Butterfly Garden at the J.C. Reuthinger Memorial Preserve is starting this spring with goal of completion by summer! Expansion includes creating a larger area for planting native, pollinator-friendly herbaceous species, adding a walking path, and planting trees and shrubs! Volunteers needed for the construction phase as well as ongoing upkeep.