When I arrived in August, I knew nothing about volunteers/volunteering. It felt kind of crazy, helping lead volunteer programs and events when I had never even volunteered for anything. Since then, I learned a lot. My main goals for the internship were to learn how recruitment, planning, and training work […]

Wow. So many pumpkins. October is a crazy month at Reiman Gardens. Helping to run a pumpkin carving event was interesting, given that I had never carved a pumpkin before. I learned that there is more to it than just taking a knife to the pumpkin, especially at such a […]

I’ve been working at Reiman Gardens for three weeks now. I had no idea getting volunteers was so complicated. I assumed you would just put up a flyer, and then people would help you when you want, but it takes way more than that.   I’ve been working on some of the plans […]