Have Fun & Make the World a Better Place!
Landscaping has been around for over two millennia (One of the ancient wonders of the world was a landscape design project!) but still only a small percentage of the world’s population can really afford to make their yard look awesome. In a world where we have self-driving cars, we believe there is a better way. The Plant Club is a bunch of people working together to try to make gardening and getting the plants you need easier, cheaper and more successful.
Do you enjoy spending time seeing, thinking, or learning about plants? If so, you could probably help us with our mission and have a great time, too! Check out some of the help we could use (ranging from a totally flexible hour a week to fun part-time jobs with awesome plant enthusiasts) below. If anything below strikes your fancy, or if you can think of something we haven’t yet, shoot us an email at helpusgrow@northshoreplantclub.com!
Part-Time Jobs
(for which we might be able to pay you a bit)
Club Leader or Plant Pickup Point
Want to help your neighbors enjoy the wonders of the Plant Club? Help us launch a new plant club and fill your yard with cool plants for your friends every couple of weeks. We’ll do most of the hard work behind the scenes!
Plant Sorting
Do you enjoy being outside, getting a little exercise, and learning more about plants? Does the idea of seeing a botanic garden come off a truck every couple weeks sound like fun? Then, we’d love your help unloading plants and sorting them.
Organizing Deliveries
If you also enjoy making sure things get to the right place at the right time, we'd love help organizing incoming and outgoing deliveries on Wednesdays.
Van Driver
Driving an Uber would be cool if it weren’t for all the crazy customers. But what if you could spend a day delivering beautiful plants to your neighbors?
Garden Coach
Have you already filled every square inch of your own yard? If you have, then you can share the fruits of your obsession, helping neighbors plan and learn to care for their own gardens!
Social Media
We want to share the word about gardening and the Plant Club more widely via FaceBook and Instagram. We have tons of interesting photos, stats, infographics, and garden coach advice, but need a bit of help to get it to the right place.
Fun Smaller Projects
(with perhaps a little discount on plants)
Curating Articles about Plants
If you’re always reading gardening magazines and searching on the internet about plants, we’d love to help you share the best gardening articles you see with the rest of The Club.
Curating Local Gardening Events
What are the best gardening events going in the Chicagoland area? We could use some help curating a list of the best plant events at local botanic gardens, garden centers, and garden clubs!
Education Committee
We'd like to organize a calendar of "Zoom"-style events with gardening experts who would like to share what they know with the Plant Club, so we can keep growing as gardeners and appreciaters of plants year-round.
Take Photos in Your Neighborhood or Botanic Gardens You Visit
Do you love to take photos of plants? We’re always looking to increase our plant photo library! If you enjoy spending time with a camera, you might have photos of plants we’re missing or photos that would be good for interactive landscapes, color wheel, and botanic gardens.
Tag photos
It’s our mission to help people understand what plants look like year round, and which plants tend to look good together. If you enjoy learning about plants, you might enjoy helping us tag the many photos we take so we can make our interactive landscapes and color wheel more useful!
North Shore Plant Club