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Growing the Gardens

At Preserve Historic Sleeping caring for the park’s historic places includes the cultural landscape. We are preserving and telling the story of Sleeping Bear heritage where living off the land included growing vegetable and berry produce, and flowers. We have restored some of the gardens at the historic Charles and Hattie Olsen Farm, now home of the Port Oneida Heritage Center. Plants are either heirloom, or have been approved by Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore as native and of the time period. These gardens enrich the Sleeping Bear Dunes visitor experience and preserve an important piece of the heritage landscape.

Volunteer Description:   Our Garden crew gathers once a week to work and have fun together planting, maintaining, and doing some harvesting of produce for our farm stand sales.This project qualifies for Master Gardener hours.

Time Commitment:  2.5 hours/week

Skill level:  No skill necessary, though we love having master gardeners! We have knowledgeable Garden Leads that will show you what needs to be done.

Ready to Get Started?!

Weave a simple 4-Step process:

  1. Complete our Volunteer Application Form
  2.  We will be in touch to review your form and confirm your interests, provide you with VIP(Volunteer-in-Park)  handbook, VIP form and orientation details.
  3. Once we have received your VIP form, you will be contacted by the Program or Project Lead.
  4. Track your hours with our online portal.

We are excited for you to join us in preserving this very special place in the Park.

*SPECIAL NEED:  Farmstand Manager

Description:  We are looking for the right individual(s) for the following:

  1. Monitor vegetable garden and berry garden for crops ready to be harvested.
  2. Harvest crops as needed to maintain fresh produce at the stand. Inspect unsold items for freshness.
  3. Update the stand produce sign. Display prices for available crops.

Time Commitment:  4 hrs/min. per week

Contact: Natalie at phsbpark2@gmail.com