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1 person is interested
Garden Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: Andrew Jackson's Hermitage
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1 person is interested
Looking for a way to use your green thumb? We are looking for regular weekly garden volunteers! Help with our historic gardens and grounds, keeping them in top shape for the 200,000 visitors, families, and school children who will be visiting this year.
Volunteers would be asked to come on a weekly basis for a minimum 3-4 hours. You can start as early as 7:00am and end as late as 12:00pm.
All volunteers must go through a basic training session and background check.
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About Andrew Jackson's Hermitage
Location:
4580 Rachel's Lane, Nashville, TN 37076, US
Mission Statement
Our mission can be summed up by 3 words: preserve, educate, and inspire! By working to preserve The Hermitage, we seek to provide an educational space where the community can learn and discuss the complexities of President Jackson and his influential legacy in the United States today. His far-reaching impact on a wide range of issues and institutions is still felt significantly today, and we work to educate the public on the Jacksonian Era and spur conversation on that legacy and all it entails. As a volunteer for The Andrew Jackson Foundation, you help make this mission possible, whether a garden volunteer, gold cart driver, special event participant, or office assistant. We appreciate our volunteers' contributions to The Hermitage and our community!
Description
The non-profit Andrew Jackson Foundation, originally named the Ladies Hermitage Association, operates the home of President Andrew Jackson, 7th president of the United States. Our aim is to increase the public’s understanding of the complex life and legacy of Andrew Jackson and Jacksonian America, to discuss their relationship to events of today, and to inspire citizenship and active civic engagement. The Andrew Jackson Foundation endeavors to accomplish this through preservation, interpretation, exhibition, education, and research.
The Hermitage opened to the public in 1889. Occupying 1,120 acres, it is one of the oldest and largest historic site museums in the United States. It ranks as the third most visited Presidential home in the nation, along with Mount Vernon and Monticello, and attracts visitors from all over the world.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
4580 Rachel's LaneHermitage, TN 37076
DATE POSTED
April 4, 2017
SKILLS
- Gardening
- Horticulture
- Farming
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 16
- Orientation or Training
- 1 weekday morning per week
- Must be physically able to kneel and work around garden