Chattahoochee Nature Center, Inc.

Thank you, Primerica for building a work culture that encourages your employees to give back to their community! We're not surprised to learn that Primerica was named a Top Workplace of 2024. Today, Primerica volunteers worked in our Greenhouse. They helped with stepping up trays of sedum, they weeded and watered existing native plants and assisted with clean-up and potting. After they finished their volunteer shift we invited them to stop by our butterfly encounter to enjoy a little bit of nature before they headed back out into Atlanta traffic. The Chattahoochee Nature Center strives to educate the public on the importance of native plants to our local ecosystem. Our Conservation Horticulturist, Henning von Schmeling is a respected expert in the field of plant conservation across the Southeast. We promote the use of native plants in our community through education and by hosting two native plant sales each year, as well as offering native pollinator plants for sale as part of our summer Butterfly Encounter. We also have a carnivorous plant sale planned on August 31. #Volunteer #PlantNative #NotYourTypicalWorkday

Thank you to The Home Depot for sending us such a BIG group of industrious volunteers! Today, we split your volunteers from The Home Depot Finance division into two groups. One lucky group joined our Unity Garden Coordinator, Coles Bradley in the Unity Garden, they helped plant radishes, harvested kale and helped weed and maintain garden beds. All produce grown in the Unity Garden is donated to North Fulton Community Charities to ease food insecurity in our community. We rely on volunteers like YOU to help continue this important work. The second group of volunteers spent the morning working on our ongoing project to restore all the teak Memorial Benches that have been donated to CNC.  Years of exposure to the elements have diminished the beauty of these special benches and we are thrilled to have volunteers who are willing to help on this project. Thank you Noor Marshall for coordinating this volunteer project on behalf of The Home Depot! We hope that your team enjoyed their volunteer project and their day out in nature. #TeamDepot #Givingback #NotYourTypicalWorkday

Today we had members of the Cambridge Marching Band from Milton, Georgia on campus helping our horticulture staff beautify a picnic area. These students wanted to volunteer in their community AND they wanted to spend time in the Georgia heat to prepare for the intensity of marching band camp. Mission accomplished! Another group of volunteers from Young Men's Service League (YMSL) North Atlanta came down from the Unity Garden and joined in to help with the bigger project. These student volunteers worked together to get the job done in just 3 hours! We truly appreciate working with community organizations that encourage students to get involved in their community and who support our mission to Connect People With Nature. Thank you, Jacqueline McRae for providing a robust project for these student volunteers! #Community #Volunteer #GetYourNatureOn

Thank you, Atlas Experiences, LLC for celebrating your five year anniversary by offering a day of service to your employees. We appreciate you taking a break from creating once-in-a-life-time events to join our staff in the Unity Garden. Atlas volunteers helped plant squash, water the garden, harvest green beans, and helped our delicate Chinese red noodle vines find a place to climb on the garden fence. We hope you all experienced a little WOW factor on your day out in nature! All produce grown in the CNC Unity Garden is donated to North Fulton Community Charities to help ease food insecurity in our community. Last year CNC donated close to 10,000 pounds of fresh produce. We can't do this important work without the help of our dedicated volunteers! #NotYourTypicalWorkday #GetYourNatureOn #Volunteer

Thank you, Insiten for joining us in the Greenhouse this morning! Volunteers assisted Henning von Schmeling in moving a large quantity of native plants out of the Greenhouse and into a shaded area. These plants were then weeded, fertilized and stepped up to larger containers. After finishing up their volunteer shift in the Greenhouse, these lucky volunteers explored the Chattahoochee Nature Center and stopped by the Butterfly Encounter for a quick visit. Thank you Collin Argo for organizing this group volunteer event for Insiten! Collin is a regular volunteer at CNC and joins us frequently to help with Habitat Restoration projects. We're thrilled that he enjoys volunteering with CNC and that he wanted to share this experience with his co-workers. #Volunteer #BuildCommunity #NotYourTypicalWorkDay

Thank you, IDEXX for sending us another hardworking group of volunteers! Despite the high temperatures today, IDEXX volunteers spent 6 hours alongside our Unity Garden coordinator, Coles Bradley. They helped build a new raised garden bed, and planted and helped maintain existing garden beds. They even had a little fun playing with the water hose to find a little relief from the heat! The goal of our corporate volunteer program is to provide companies with meaningful opportunities to give back to the community while supporting CNC's mission, #ConnectPeopleWithNature. By participating in volunteer projects, corporate teams contribute to the preservation and enhancement of our natural habitats, while also enjoying a rewarding team-building experience. They also get to spend a fun day in nature!   All produce from our Unity Garden is donated to North Fulton Community Charities to help ease food insecurity in our community. Last year CNC produced nearly 10,000 pounds of fresh produce for donation! We count on our corporate partners like IDEXX to hit these impressive numbers. Thank you, Regina Martin for organizing this impactful volunteer day! #NotYourTypicalWorkday #Volunteer #IDEXX

Thank you, UPS for sending us ANOTHER group of energetic volunteers! Today, UPS volunteers started the morning with a Habitat Restoration along our scenic boardwalk where they helped remove Asiatic dayflowers. Unfortunately, nature has a way of happening when you're out in nature and the discovery of a few yellow jacket nests necessitated a change of plans for the morning. Project 2: Volunteers assisted our grounds crew by carrying cut branches from Willeo Road, across campus and up a steep hill to a natural compost area. Project 3: Volunteers assisted with moving mulch and maintaining garden beds in the Unity Garden. We are grateful that this team of UPS volunteers were flexible, fearless and willing to move into a new project every hour they were on the CNC campus! #NotYourTypicalWorkday #Volunteer #UnitedAsOne

Our Mission is to Connect People with Nature. Today, during our monthly volunteer orientation, our newly minted CNC volunteers visited our Butterfly Encounter, walked along our iconic river boardwalk AND encountered one of our Wildlife staff members socializing a Peregrine Falcon. Not a bad way to spend a Saturday morning in June! Come volunteer with us and fall in love with the beauty of Chattahoochee Nature Center. #Volunteer #GetYourNatureOn

Thank you, Workday for volunteering with us on this hot Friday in June! Even though our local temperature reached 90 degrees, these volunteers braved the heat and helped clear old growth and debris from the area behind the greenhouse. We also had a team of volunteers that helped pot Cherokee Sage, Ohio Spiderwort and Bluestar. A portion of these native plants will be planted on the grounds at Chattahoochee Nature Center while the rest of the plants will be stepped-up and sold in our next native plant sale scheduled for September 27-28. We are grateful for this opportunity to partner with Workday and we hope you enjoyed volunteering with us! While volunteers are on site in the greenhouse area they spend time with our Conservation Horticulturist, Henning von Schmeling, who is a native and rare plant expert. If you would like the opportunity to meet Henning and learn more about native plants, please join us for our upcoming Carnivorous Plant Sale on August 31. #NotYourTypicalWorkday #Volunteer #Workday #PlantNative

Thank you Mercedes-Benz USA for sending us ANOTHER group of volunteers this week! Today, MBUSA volunteers worked with our Horticulture team on a Greenhouse project. The project involved breaking apart old planting beds and clearing debris from a large area behind the greenhouse. The goal of this project was to create more space in the greenhouse area to expand our inventory of native plants. The Chattahoochee Nature Center strives to educate the public on the importance of native plants to our local ecosystem. Our Conservation Horticulturist Henning von Schmeling is a respected expert in the field of plant conservation across the Southeast. We promote the use of native plants in our community through education and by hosting two native plant sales each year, as well as offering native pollinator plants for sale as part of our summer Butterfly Encounter. We truly appreciate MBUSA and your continued support of Chattahoochee Nature Center and our mission to #ConnectPeopleWithNature. #DrivingYourFuture #Volunteer #NotYourTypicalWorkday