MPRB Volunteers

: Growing to share. 🍅🍆🥦🌽 The Donation Garden at MLK Park All produce grown is donated to the Aliveness Project. 👏💚👏💚
📷: MLK Donation Garden.
The Aliveness Project Kingfield Neighborhood Association

Bold and beautiful - just like their gardener! Luba, you're an icon in the NE. Thanks for stewarding the gardens at BF Nelson for another year.
St. Anthony West Neighborhood Organization (STAWNO) 👏👏👏

Hello Volunteer Community!
Local middle school students are working on a community service project related to plants and people. Can you help by providing insight to their questions? Thank you!
🌱 Why plant?
🌱 Why is planting important?
🌱 How does planting help the world and people?

Garden volunteers... they plant, w**d, water, mulch, build community, grow beauty and love. The Frevert Family Gardeners, gardening for us, and you, for more than 25 years!
In 2023 4 family members tended the Arbor Garden for 45 hours! 👏👏👏 HPDL - Hale, Page, Diamond Lake
📷: L. Frevert. 💚💚💚

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Father Hennepin Bluff: Last Day Roundup & 2023 in Photos! 💚💚💚
"What a day, and what a season!! 116 volunteers, 16 events, additional work days with volunteer leaders - wow. Today was amazing, with the Biostats department turning out in numbers, plus several return volunteers. We cleared invasives before spreading seeds, then doing the essential wiggle dance on the seeds - great to laugh and loosen up! I look forward to the community-engaged restoration planning ahead, with all of you, and to future seasons of nature care." ~Cordelia P., Lead Steward at the Bluff.
Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association 📷 credits: Cordelia P., JoDee S. More Photos at: bit.ly/3SxDr7E

MillerKnoll's Global Day of Purpose - a paid day off to give back to the community and vote! For us, the task was at Brownie Lake and the target was buckthorn. Wowza- two huge piles pulled. The lake looks amazing. Come see the difference! Thank you MillerKnoll 💚💚💚

Did you miss the bulb planting yesterday? No worries - you'll be able to enjoy the blooms in the spring. 💚🌷
Loring Park Friends of Loring Park
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from Stewardship Lead Amy M. 🍁🧤🌱
"Thank you for the new perennials for Lynnhurst! It was nice too that MN Native Landscape donated the plants to Parks. I got them all planted before the snow came in. I used the Columbine plants to fill the gaps at the top and bottom of the photo in the Lynnhurst Welcome Garden. I added the Butterfly Milkw**d to the west side of the Lynnhurst Courtyard Pantry Garden to fill a space I had been planting annuals. The Ox-Eye Sunflower, Blue Lobelia, and Blazing Star plants all went on the east side of the courtyard around the Honeyberry shrubs and the espalier apple tree. This continues the gradual transition to native perennials in these areas. Looking good!"
~Amy M., 💚💚💚
Special thanks to for the plants and to Amy for her continued care of the pantry and native gardens at Lynnhurst Park!

Thank you for your care and advocacy at Diamond Lake! 💎💎💎👏👏👏 Friends of Diamond Lake

Hey Loring Park! Can you help plant bulbs for spring blooms?
NEW DATE! Thurs., Nov. 2 at 9am. (Let's hope the weather cooperates this time.)
No need to sign up, just show up!
Meet at the garden shed.
Tools, gloves, bulbs, & instruction provided.
Dress warm! 🧤🍁🌷
Loring Park Friends of Loring Park Citizens For A Loring Park Community

Shout-out to Navitaire for planting bulbs with us at The Commons Park. Our volunteer help keep our parks beautiful for YOU! Minneapolis Downtown Parks 💚

They did it, and just in time for the downpour. Team Native/Shade finished the season by planting native species donated by MN Native Landscapes. Thank you -- Garden Club of Minneapolis -- for all that you do to promote gardening. community, and volunteering at Lyndale Park Gardens! 💚 MNL

Fall and winter are for learning: Canning 101 and Houseplant Propagation. Details on the flyer. Classes led by Hennepin County Master Gardeners. Register online at www.minneapolisparks.org/register 🍓 🌱

Old (or young) we got 'em! 🌷
Pictured here: Our youngest volunteer to date.
📷 credit & permission: The "tiny tots" mom.
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JUST ADDED! 🌷🌷🌷
Pop-Up Bulb Planting in the Garden of the Seasons!
Date: Thursday, October 26 at 9am.
Location: Meet at the garden shed.
Tools, gloves, bulbs, instruction provided.
Loring Park Citizens For A Loring Park Community Friends of Loring Park
Sign up at the link:

Loring Park Garden Stewards JUST ADDED! Pop-Up Bulb Planting in the Garden of the Seasons! Date: Thursday, October 26 at 9am. Location: Loring Park Garden of the Seasons. Meet at the garden shed. This event is limited to 10 volunteers. Tools, gloves, bulbs, instruction provided. Sponsored by the Friends of Loring Park and the....

Shout out to Midwest Native Landscapes for their generous donation of native plants! 75 flats - a total of 2400 plants to be distributed to volunteers in our park stewardship program. Thank you! MNL 💚💚💚

We need your help in the Rose Garden!
Wednesday, 10/18, 1-3pm. Help prep the roses for winter.
Meet in the garden. Sign up below!
See you in the garden. Lyndale Park Gardens

Rose Garden Tending JUST ADDED! NEW DATE - WE NEED YOUR HELP PREPPING THE ROSE GARDEN FOR WINTER! WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18TH, 1-3PM. Help us heel in the roses for the winter. Meet by the Heffelfinger Fountain. This event will be staff led. The Lyndale Park Rose Garden is part of the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board (MP...

The 1st, the 2nd, and the 3rd time's the charm with Best Buy. Many thanks to BB Team 3 for joining us on this wet & blustery day at the Sculpture Garden. 🍒🥄🍀🍀🍀

Piper Sandler are back (again) at Loring. Thanks for joining us - the cherry tree grove looks great! 🍒🌳 Loring Park Friends of Loring Park

Fall harvest news from our 1st Pantry Garden Steward - Amy M! 🍅🥒🫑🥬
"I dropped off my 15th vegetable donation of the season to Groveland Food Shelf this week. The tomatoes have slowed down for the fall but the kale, collards, and cabbage are doing great. Rabbits have done a number on the pepper plants. They don't like the Serrano peppers but they love the pepper plants.", Amy M. 🌶
Lynnhurst Neighborhood Groveland Emergency Food Shelf

Great group - wonderful stewards of the park!

Buckthorn as barbells. Demonstrated by Ella at Cedar Lake. 🏋️‍♀️
Cedar Lake Park Cedar Isles Dean Neighborhood Association

With Team E. Lind - the party is always on, rain or shine! Thanks for the cutest volunteer pic of 2023, and for joining us (again) for 8 hours day of volunteer activities at Minnehaha Park! 🌧☀️💚

Each September, Ford volunteers come together in support of their local communities. This season we were honored to host a team at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. 🍒🥄🚗 Thanks so much for helping out - the garden looks great! 💪

Upcoming Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary Volunteer Opportunities:
🦋Native meadow planting this Friday,September 29th at 3:30pm, tools provided
Fall Buckthorn events, supplies and training provided -
🌳Sunday, October 1 from 2PM to 4:30 PM
🌳Sunday, October 15, 2 PM to 4:30 PM
🌳Saturday, October 21, 2 PM to 4:30 PM
Friends of the Eloise Butler Wild Flower Garden

Our new crush - . 👩‍❤️‍👨 Thanks for joining us at Bridal Veil ! Bio-Techne

We like big blooms and we cannot lie. 🎶
Hollis, thank you for another beautiful garden! 25+ yrs. 💚
Lynnhurst Neighborhood Lyndale Ave S. & Minnehaha Sign Bed. 🌺🌼🌸🌻🌞

Massive 🌎 week trash haul. Many thanks to first-time park volunteers from Diversigen for helping out at North MS Regional Park. Hope to host you again!

Garlic Mustard is teeny tiny this time of year – imagine how many plants this volunteer crew pulled to fill all those bags. GM is a threat to biodiversity, it emerges earlier than many native species, forming dense stands that shade and out compete desired plants. Many thanks to team SRF Consulting Group, Inc. for leading the way to a better Brownie Lake Park. 💚

Nice job Arc'teryx @ Mall of America staff.

🦅 Alert!
Congratulations to John Xiong, Troop 100 newest . Our community gardeners will put the trellises to good use.
Northern Star Scouting 💚

Great fun and a great week celebration with HandsOn Twin Cities and General Mills. The bandshell gardens are ready to receive sun! (Aren't we all.) 🙃 So happy to have this team back after a two-year pandemic recess. 🌎