Volunteer Blog
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Volunteer Spotlight: Ron Rademacher
Phipps is well-known for our beautiful gardens, seasonal flower shows, pioneering sustainability initiatives, informative educational programs and community outreach. None of our work, however, would be possible without the...
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Volunteer Spotlight: Demetria Marsh and Nancy Kline, Orchid Society of Western Pennsylvania
Phipps is well-known for our beautiful gardens, seasonal flower shows, pioneering sustainability initiatives, informative educational programs and community outreach. None of our work, however, would be possible without the...
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Volunteer Spotlight: Sheila Levine
Phipps is well-known for our beautiful gardens, seasonal flower shows, pioneering sustainability initiatives, informative educational programs and community outreach. None of our work, however, would be possible without the...
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Volunteer Spotlight: Carolyn Savikas
Many of Carolyn Savikas’ earliest memories revolve around gardens. Digging in her family’s vegetable plot. Going to the train station with her father to pick up flats of roses. Standing on the sidewalk in front of...
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Volunteer Spotlight: Mike Crawmer
Although Mike Crawmer has occasionally lent his weeding skills to the Phipps exhibit beds, he doesn’t pride himself on his emerald thumbs. “I plant seeds and I hope they grow,” he says. “That’s the...
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Volunteer Spotlight: Robin Weinstein
To Robin Weinstein, nurturing plants and nurturing people are one and the same. Robin had no way of knowing that her love of home gardening, sparked by her sister over twenty years ago, would eventually lead her to a job guiding...