Opportunities From: Volunteer Wisconsin

Volunteer: Face Painter


We’re looking for creative volunteers to help with face painting during our Woodland Wonders kick-off event on May 19! This is a fun way to get involved and engage with our visitors as we celebrate the beauty and wonder of trees, art, and nature. Choose your own pre-set designs or get as creative as you'd like! Supplies will be provided by the Garden. 

Agency: Green Bay Botanical Garden


We’re looking for creative volunteers to help with face painting during our Woodland Wonders kick-off event on May 19! This is a fun way to get involved and engage with our visitors as we celebrate the beauty and wonder of trees, art, and nature. Choose your own pre-set designs or get as creative as you'd like! Supplies will be provided by the Garden. 

Agency: Green Bay Botanical Garden

Opportunity Type: Volunteer

Date: Happens On May 19, 2026

Zip Code: 54303

Allow Groups: No


Volunteer: Youth Tour Guide

Provide a fun and meaningful education experience for children (schools, scouts, daycares, preschools, etc.) in the Garden!

Tours take place throughout the developed areas of the Garden as well as our natural areas. Tours are typically 1.5 hours in length and can cover between ¾ mile to 1 ½ miles. Each guide will lead 15 to 20 students along with several adult chaperones.

Responsibilities: 

Participate in docent training and update meetings prior to each season.Observe multiple tours with multiple guides before leading your own group.Facilitate guided tours of Green Bay Botanical Garden to youth.Have sufficient knowledge of tour content to engage students in meaningful and educational ways

Agency: Green Bay Botanical Garden

Provide a fun and meaningful education experience for children (schools, scouts, daycares, preschools, etc.) in the Garden!

Tours take place throughout the developed areas of the Garden as well as our natural areas. Tours are typically 1.5 hours in length and can cover between ¾ mile to 1 ½ miles. Each guide will lead 15 to 20 students along with several adult chaperones.

Responsibilities: 

Participate in docent training and update meetings prior to each season.Observe multiple tours with multiple guides before leading your own group.Facilitate guided tours of Green Bay Botanical Garden to youth.Have sufficient knowledge of tour content to engage students in meaningful and educational ways

Agency: Green Bay Botanical Garden

Opportunity Type: Volunteer

Date: Apr 1, 2026 through Oct 31, 2026

Agency Requirement: >21 years old

Zip Code: 54303

Allow Groups: No


Volunteer: Adult Garden Tour Guide

Provide a fun and educational experience for adults (tour groups, senior clubs, garden clubs, etc.) during their visit to Green Bay Botanical Garden.

Responsibilities:

Participate in docent trainings prior to each seasonFacilitate guided tours of GBBG to adult groupsHave sufficient knowledge of tour content to engage adults in meaningful and educational ways based on the interest and knowledge of the group

Agency: Green Bay Botanical Garden

Provide a fun and educational experience for adults (tour groups, senior clubs, garden clubs, etc.) during their visit to Green Bay Botanical Garden.

Responsibilities:

Participate in docent trainings prior to each seasonFacilitate guided tours of GBBG to adult groupsHave sufficient knowledge of tour content to engage adults in meaningful and educational ways based on the interest and knowledge of the group

Agency: Green Bay Botanical Garden

Opportunity Type: Volunteer

Date: May 1, 2026 through Oct 1, 2026

Agency Requirement: >21 years old

Zip Code: 54303

Allow Groups: No


Volunteer: Outdoor Gardener

Contribute to beautiful, inspiring, and well-maintained public gardens. Gardening Outdoors begins in April and concludes in mid-November, dependent on the weather. 

April-May ~ Take part in Green House transplanting and dividing plants, adding compost and mulch to the flowerbeds, cutting back plants, and removing mulch from roses and planting roses. Spring cleaning in the gardens consists of sweeping, picking up twigs and leaves and other debris.

May-June ~ Beautiful summer landscapes require planting annual and perennials flowerbeds, watering plants and fertilizing roses, and of course, mulching, weeding, dead-heading, and digging spent spring-flowering bulbs.

June-Sept ~ Maintain the gardens by weeding, mulching, pruning, dead-heading, and staking plants, as well as sweeping, and raking leaves.

Sept-Nov ~Help prepare for winter and next spring by planting bulbs and perennials, cleaning up beds, mulching, and putting roses to bed.

Agency: Green Bay Botanical Garden

Contribute to beautiful, inspiring, and well-maintained public gardens. Gardening Outdoors begins in April and concludes in mid-November, dependent on the weather. 

April-May ~ Take part in Green House transplanting and dividing plants, adding compost and mulch to the flowerbeds, cutting back plants, and removing mulch from roses and planting roses. Spring cleaning in the gardens consists of sweeping, picking up twigs and leaves and other debris.

May-June ~ Beautiful summer landscapes require planting annual and perennials flowerbeds, watering plants and fertilizing roses, and of course, mulching, weeding, dead-heading, and digging spent spring-flowering bulbs.

June-Sept ~ Maintain the gardens by weeding, mulching, pruning, dead-heading, and staking plants, as well as sweeping, and raking leaves.

Sept-Nov ~Help prepare for winter and next spring by planting bulbs and perennials, cleaning up beds, mulching, and putting roses to bed.

Agency: Green Bay Botanical Garden

Opportunity Type: Volunteer

Date: Apr 28, 2026 through Nov 9, 2026

Agency Requirement: >18 years old

Zip Code: 54303

Allow Groups: No