Leila Arboretum Society has a great many opportunities for people to volunteer their time gardening outdoors. Come and help the Society and your community by coming out and joining friends and neighbors in helping to make this area a place of lush and lustrous beauty! Here are our main opportunities. You do not have to…
Filing, calling, assembling bulk mail – Most of the mailings that go out through LAS for the Volunteer and Education Departments are made possible by volunteer efforts. The tasks required are inserting, folding, labeling, sealing and organizing these mailings so we can get them out on a timely basis. This task is usually done in…
The LAS Greenhouse offers many opportunities for learning also. Greenhouse gardening is different than gardening outdoors. Greenhouse gardeners learn the fine points of growing plants from seed in a controlled environment, grafting, transplanting, pruning at important intervals, and insect control. The LAS Greenhouse Gardeners go into a high production phase starting in mid-January to begin…
Communities seem more vibrant when their business districts come alive with plantings of annuals, bulbs and trees. Note: the container plantings that you see in the downtown area are planted and maintained by Leila Arboretum.
Simple things like coming in and reading a book, playing a game or putting together a puzzle is a huge help. If you enjoy gardening you can help us in our vegetable garden. Take your hobby and turn it into an activity that the residents would enjoy.
Gardeners will always be needed to help take care of an acre of plantings in the LAS Kaleidoscope Garden. This is a wonderful garden containing many small gardens of different themes.
Throughout the community, there are wonderful examples of different kinds of gardens for those who wish to specialize. There are rose gardens, rock gardens, butterfly gardens, gardens of just annuals, native wild flowers, perennial gardens, Japanese gardens etc.
Become a volunteer and get added to our database! There are endless ways you can help our homeless animals live better lives. We at HHS can always use a helping hand with day-to-day chores or walking the animals, assisting at events, creating merchandise for Re-Tails Boutique, and more.
Help by being a chaperone; going to the Zoo, the park, a movie or Battle Creek Bombers game.
You could volunteer to help at one of our fundraising events or create an event of your own.