Get Involved: Boulder County Parks & Open Space

Volunteers manage the World War I era Victory Garden (heirloom) at the Agricultural Heritage Center at the Lohr/McIntosh Farm.

Basic responsibilities include planning, planting, weeding, watering, and harvesting the garden. Optional duties include watering trees when needed and maintaining flower beds at the Agricultural Heritage Center.

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Livestock are a vital component of the programs at the Agricultural Heritage Center and need care twice a day, seven days a week. Volunteers feed a wide variety of livestock on a consistent schedule (mornings and/or afternoons). Cleaning pens is not required, but highly appreciated.

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Volunteer tour guides and farmhouse docents teach visitors about the agricultural history of Boulder County between 1900 and 1925.

The Agricultural Heritage Center at the Lohr/McIntosh farm represents this area’s agricultural roots and pioneer history. Visitors and organized groups have the opportunity to explore the many restored buildings, museum exhibits, livestock pens, and a period-furnished farmhouse surrounded by 465 acres of agricultural open space.

There are also opportunities to assist with our story time and activity focused program, Fun on the Farm, during the summer.

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Volunteers will lead fun educational programs at the recently restored Altona Schoolhouse at Heil Valley Ranch.

Volunteers will:

• Present one room school field trips for pre-requested group visits. Teachers will choose from a pioneer school experience or mining program.
• Present artifact trunks for pre-requested group visits.
• Research, develop, and present future field trip or public program activities.
• Research and lead period-appropriate crafts, games, and possibly songs.

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Assay Office Museum

Do you love sharing stories, talking with people, and have a passion for history? Volunteers are needed to help visitors explore and learn about mining history at the James F. Bailey Assay Office Museum.

General

The Left Hand Outdoor Challenge encourages young adults to become stewards of our public lands. Innovative monthly challenges hosted by Boulder County Parks & Open Space staff and volunteer program leaders will expose participants to a variety of outdoor careers and resource management issues.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Build strong mentor relationships with participants; limited to Left hand Outdoor Challenge events, meetings and activities.
• Teach and monitor participant involvement in a variety of natural and cultural resource management topics relating to Boulder County Parks & Open Space.
• Assist in monthly challenges that explore resource management concepts, stewardship skills, outdoor ethics, service learning and leadership.
• Support Boulder County Parks & Open Space staff in the direction and implementation of program responsibilities.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Must be at least 21 years of age.
• Pass a criminal background check.
• Show a willingness to be involved in outdoor activities, volunteer service and environmental stewardship.
• Complete an interview process and pass a background check.
• Be open to building professional mentor relationships with teen participants that support a positive team environment and contribute to the healthy development of the participants.
• Must agree to limit their contact with participants to sanctioned program events, meetings and activities.
• Attend at least 50 percent of all activities from September through May each year, including an orientation and program graduation.
• Must adhere to Boulder County Parks & Open Space policies and procedures and submit to the direction of Boulder County Parks & Open Space staff.

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Do you love sharing stories, talking with people, and have a passion for history? Volunteers are needed to help visitors explore and learn about mining history at the Nederland Mining Museum.

Duties include:

• Welcome and orient visitors to the site.
• Interpret objects and mining history.
• Answer visitor questions regarding the museum collection and local history.
• Provide information about the area and nearby open spaces.
• Lead educational programs for organized groups, such as schools, senior centers, and interest groups.

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Share the history of Boulder County at events hosted by Parks & Open Space. Visitors love to talk to volunteers and learn about what life was like on a working ranch in the late 1800s.

Volunteers dress in period costume to demonstrate daily chores of a working western ranch for school programs and special events at the Walker Ranch Homestead. Training and costumes are provided.

Some of the activities you could demonstrate are cooking on a wood-burning stove, churning butter, making roof shingles, assisting the blacksmith, doing laundry the old-fashioned way, and historical games.

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