Volunteer Application
If you want to volunteer with the Calgary Horticultural Society, please complete our volunteer application prior to signing up for a role using the links below. If you have submitted an application form within a year, you are not required to resubmit an application.
Sign Up for Volunteering
Board Director
This volunteer role requires a minimum two-year term commitment as well as availability for approximately ten hours per month to attend Board and Committee meetings and attend Society events. Of particular preference are applicants with executive or professional experience in law, governance, not for profit leadership/fund development, marketing and/or communications. Though gardening expertise is not a must, all Board members must support our mission and organizational goals. Use this link to learn more about the Board and the role of a Society director.
In-person Events
In-person tasks for workshops, classes, and talks include gathering and returning a materials tote box from our office located at 5720 Silver Ridge Drive NW, arriving 30 minutes prior to the session and staying 15 minutes after the scheduled time for set-up and clean-up as required, assisting the instructor before, during and after the session, asking questions to engage participants, reading a script introducing the session and the instructor, taking attendance and handing out evaluations.
Table event tasks include assisting with information table display set-up and tear-down, answering gardening and Society related questions and processing membership sales (event dependent)
Sign up for current in-person event volunteer opportunities on this link
In-person Support Roles
A variety of roles. Usually one-time opportunities or tasks. Everything from preparing supplies for instructors, collecting Open Gardens signs.
Online Programs
Online tasks include starting and ending the meeting using Zoom, letting people into the meeting, assist with technical troubleshooting, reading a script introducing the instructor, moderating the questions, asking questions and assisting the instructor throughout the session
Plant Share and Garlic Exchange is Saturday, September 12.
Our Spring Plant Share and Garlic Exchange is on Saturday, September 12 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM (sharing is from 10:00 to 11:00 AM. This will be our second Plant Share at our new Silver Springs location – 5720 Silver Ridge Drive NW.
We will also have our Fall Native Plant Kit pick up after the Plant Share
We have many opportunities between 7:30 AM – 12:30 PM. There are short descriptions of each role on the sign-up sheet. The sign-up link is below.
Volunteers will be given a special Plant Share ticket. This separate ticket will ensure volunteers will be called during the first three rounds.
Sign up for Plant Share volunteer opportunities on this link
Information about the September 12 event: Fall Plant Share Event Details
Information about the Plant Share: How the Plant Share Works and Tips
Seed to Table Ambassadors
Visit the Seed to Table Ambassadors page to learn more about the program and sign up for Ambassador program activities.
At Calgary Horticultural Society, we rely on volunteers to help us deliver our services and programs to gardeners. Each year, we are grateful to the hundreds of volunteers whose time, skills, experience and enthusiasm help us achieve our aims to educate, promote and support gardening in the Calgary area.
Volunteering at Calgary Horticultural Society is a great way to meet like-minded people, use your skills or learn new ones. You will find a friendly, social atmosphere at our volunteer events, and you will be surrounded by people who share your love of gardening.
We have a wide range of opportunities for people of all skills and abilities. Volunteers assist us with our education programs, help us with our annual Garden Show, help to tend our teaching and demonstration garden and support us to deliver outreach and events around the city.
We ask that all volunteers have a current Calgary Horticultural Society membership to participate in our volunteer program. To find out more, please contact the office:
volunteer@calhort.org
403.287.3469
Additional Volunteer Opportunities at the Society
Volunteers are also recruited for the following in-person positions:
Open Gardens Coordinator
The Society is seeking volunteers to help coordinate Open Gardens in the northern quadrants of Calgary. Open Gardens is one of the Society’s most popular member events. The coordinators recruit gardeners willing to be hosts and share their gardens with the Society members on a summer Sunday afternoon. We are seeking coordinators for the 2026 garden season.
For a full role description, visit this link: Open Gardens coordinator.
Bi-Annual Plant Shares
Members only Plant Shares are held twice a year to swap plants. There are a variety of volunteer jobs we need assistance with from coffee sales to running plants, cashiers and more. It is a fun morning to meet your fellow members.
Casino
The Society runs a casino every as a major fundraiser. There are a variety of volunteer positions from chip runner to banker and cashiers. Our next casino will be in 18 – 24 months.
Society Garden
We always look for volunteers to help with the spring clean-up, weeding, watering and fall clean-up of our society gardens.
Office Administration Assistance
An extra set of hands is always appreciated at the office to help file, selling memberships at events, mail-outs, refreshment support at the monthly Member Talks, etc.
We ask that all volunteers have a current Calgary Horticultural Society membership to participate in our volunteer program. To find out more, please contact the office:
volunteer@calhort.org
403.287.3469
