Happy May Day! It is a day to celebrate the beautiful flowers blooming in our communities and the last weeks of spring before the heat of summer rolls around. Take this opportunity to beautify your community by planting a flower garden in your neighborhood, home, or community center!
Flowers can beautify any dreary space. Have a park that could use some beauty? Clean it up and plant some flowers! Need to restore an old school? Add a school garden! Want to teach your kids about the environment? Teach them about the ecosystem through a garden. A garden can be the source of so many things from knowledge to food it is a wonderful way to get out and beautify your community, while celebrating an international holiday, as well!
Are you clueless when it comes to planting a flower garden? Check out our step-by-step guide that will get your project started with ease!
- Identify partners and leaders: Call on friends, family, schoolteachers, etc. to be volunteer leaders or to donate materials for the project. You will need rocks, hand towels, and flowers such as yellow, white, or light pink flowers. These flowers will bring butterflies to your garden.
- Set a location: Contact your local community organizations or centers about space they could donate to the project. Arrange a site visit with your team leaders to review the project plan before the volunteers arrive. Make sure you choose a location that receives a high amount of sunlight and a low amount of wind for plants at this time of year!
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Establish goals: Goals will help you plan the actual project and the outcome you wish to achieve. Make a goal and plan
the project around that.
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Develop your plan: Ask yourself the following questions when developing your garden project:
- Where can I get funding for the plants and the supplies?
- What resources are available for use?
- Where can I find enthusiastic green thumb volunteers?
- How do I get the message out about the project?
- Do I want to attach a learning aspect to the project?
- Do I need help from volunteer leaders? What kind of leaders do I need?
- How will we maintain the garden after the project is finished?
- Define a timeline: Set a timeline for the project: how long it will take to plant the flowers, obtain the supplies, and maintain the garden.
- Promote: Recruit volunteers through fliers, newspaper articles, or social media. You can do this yourself or recruit the help of volunteers depending on the size of your project.
- Empower youth leaders: Allow young people to suggest ideas and contribute to the overall project planning. Their voice and ideas are vital to ensuring a successful project.
- Reflect and recognize: After the project, reflect on the work that was accomplished. Thank your volunteers for their contribution to the project.
Your garden will be a great way to celebrate the month of May while improving your community’s overall well being. Gardens contribute to a better ecosystem, overall.
Have fun getting your hands dirty with your neighbors and happy May Day!
Have you started a flower garden in your community? We would love to hear your comments and suggestions in the comment section below!
In case you have just awoken from winter hibernation, spring has finally arrived! From the high levels of pollen to the newborn animals running around spring is in full swing and will not be ignored. Since we cannot hide from it, it is time to celebrate the new spring season with volunteer work (we would not be 
Keeping your community beautiful is a great way to better your economy, environment and well-being. This month get out and take pride in your community’s appearance. Let’s clean up our neighborhoods and make every month Keep America Beautiful Month!
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to play a role in the garden activities. These members will be vital in funding the garden, keeping up with its maintenance, and planning events.
exchange phone numbers or email addresses, it is important that all members can get in touch with each other in case anything comes up. It will also help maintain that sense of community between all those involved!
The birds are chirping, bees are buzzing, flowers are blooming, and the pollen is everywhere. Today is the first day of spring! Goodbye cold weather and hello sunny days. Spring is a great time to have a new beginning by getting out and volunteering in your community.
nt flowers, repair playgrounds, or pick up trash. Whatever you can do to beautify your park to make it more enjoyable will make a difference!
stickers, and everything green begin. St. Patrick’s Day is a great time to celebrate not only being Irish, spring being around the corner, and good luck, but it is also the perfect time to perform a little charity!
ob. Explain to the crowd that you are doing this for charity if they would like to donate to your cause.
Whether you are searching for four-leaf clovers or pinching those who are not wearing green, show how lucky you are by doing some good tomorrow. What better way to celebrate the luck of the Irish than by helping those who may not be so lucky!
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get experience, while helping animals in your community. You will have so much fun; it will not even feel like volunteering!
Volunteering is the perfect excuse to utilize the skills that you may not be able to use every day. What better way to learn about yourself and the career path you would like to take than volunteering your skills?
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