Volunteer Opportunities

PLANT SALE

Every year the Grayslake Greenery Garden Club has their annual plant sale in May.  This fun event helps raise funds for the Club each year and also provides low cost plants to the community.  This event requires many volunteers and gives members a chance to share their prize plants with novice and experienced gardeners. 

YOUTH GARDEN

In May of 2006 the Club leased a 20 x 20 lot in the Grayslake Community Garden. Several club members teamed up with Pack 451 Cub Scouts to grow food for the local food pantry. The scout group named themselves the "Cub Sprouts". An assortment of vegetables were grown from plants and seeds. The boys from Pack 451 participated in the planting, watering, weeding and harvesting of over 200 lbs. of food that was donated to a local food pantry.

The Youth Garden Project continues this summer for it's fifth year with a 40 x 20 plot. Crops will be grown that do well in the space.  Tomatoes, beans, potatoes, kale, carrots, beets are a few of the successful plants that have been harvested by the "Cub Sprouts".  Each year the group tries new ideas to increase the yield.  They grow the crops that have been the most successful.   

HORTICULTURE

The Horticulture Committee works with the Grayslake Senior Center planting containers and several inground beds around the building. Nancy Rinker, the committee chair, and several club members volunteer their time helping the seniors maintain the containers. The seniors help with the dead heading and watering. They have fun digging, watering and growing! The seniors also enjoy the Wednesday morning garden therapy activities sponsored by the club. The committee puts together nine of these programs for the seniors at the center.

DANCE RECITAL