Shelter Volunteers assist in staffing the Martha E. Crone Visitors’ Shelter each day during the Garden season - April through October. (Shelter inside photo below) Volunteers do not need to be members of the Friends. Each day there are two volunteer shifts. Weekdays from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM and from 12:30 to 3:30 PM. Saturday from 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM and 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM; Sunday from 12:30 PM to 3:00 PM and 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM. The Shelter volunteer’s job is to make visitors feel welcome, to answer Wildflower Garden related questions and to show visitors the resources (reference books, touch and see table, program info, interpretive displays, guidebooks, etc.) available to visitors in the Shelter. If you are interested in becoming a Shelter Volunteer please contact the Shelter Volunteer Coordinator -

E-mail the Shelter Volunteer Coordinator

Help protect Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden from invasive plants!
Events are 2-1/2 hours long – come for as much or as little time as you have.
No experience needed.  We provide tools, how-to and treats!

This long-standing volunteer project is achieving real results in protecting the Garden from invasive plants.  Working in the “preservation zone” immediately surrounding the Garden, volunteers participate in weekend group events, removing garlic mustard in the spring and buckthorn in the fall.

Volunteers are notified by email of the schedule of events each season.  Contact the volunteer coordinator with questions or to add your name to the email list - use the e-mail link below.

E-mail the Invasive plant volunteer coordinator------------Spring 2013 work schedule

Legacy Volunteers assist the Wildflower Garden staff in the eradication of invasive plants. After receiving training from the Garden Curator each volunteer takes responsibility for a small, but significant, designated section of the Wildflower Garden and commits to removing all of the invasive species in their assigned section for the season. Assistance throughout the season is provided by Wildflower Garden staff. Direct inquiries about this program to the Wildflower Garden Curator at ebwg@minneapolisparks.org.

If you visit the Martha Crone Shelter, there is a volunteer sign up sheet available there also.

Meet some volunteers: From time to time The Friends publish interviews with our volunteers, giving a bit of their history and their reasons for volunteering. You can read these past interviews by clicking on the person's name. The date next to the name is the year of the interview. We have added a note at the bottom of each interview, where appropriate, updating some of the information.

Joy Davis 2011 (pdf file)	Liz Anderson 2012 (pdf file)
Harriet Betzold 2011	Marie Demler 2010	George Bridgman 2009
Ann Godfrey 2008	Phoebe Waugh 2004	Juanita Lussenhop 2004
Jim Proctor 2004	Betty Bryan 2002	Gloria Miller 2002
Moana Odell Beim 2002	Lyle Johnson 2001	Constance Pepin 2001
Judy Jones 2000	Shirley Schultz 2000	Clinton Odell 1952