Helping maintain the Cultural Gardens is a monumental task.  Fortunately, local organizations have pitched in regularly to help.  CSU student and staff did outstanding jobs in 2008, for example.

But we can use much more help.  Consider getting a group together to spend an hour or more at one of the Gardens; your choice or ours.  We’ll provide on site supervision to work with you and make you efforts something to be very proud of.  Contact the Cleveland Cultural Gardens Federation at 216-916-7755.

For example, thanks to a network of volunteer organizations, college students from across the country (summer interns in area firms) are working at projects to make the area a better place to live in.  On July 15th, volunteers from Center for Civic Engagement Learning (CWRU), City Year-Cleveland, Hillel-Cleveland, Key Bank, and Summer on the Cuyahoga pitched in and filled a city refuse truck with timber and plant matter that’s been covering Poet’s Corner in the Cultural Gardens of Rockefeller Park for decades.  Overhead a forestry firm trimmed dead wood out of the trees before it hits the ground thanks to an ongoing Holden Parks Trust program, administered by University Circle, Inc.  Great work!  The daily busloads of tourists, local visitors and residents will have even more to enjoy.