Volunteer at Eden

What areas are covered by the Horticultural Teams? 

The Eden Project is made up of two Biomes covering about six acres, surrounded by our 30-acre Outdoor Garden. We also have a 200-acre Outer Estate and a nursery of over 7000m² comprising of different planting zones including crops, fruit, mixed floral borders, geographical zones, ethnobotanical exhibits and so much more.

What will a Landscape Volunteer do? 

Our Landscape Volunteers will help maintain and develop the Eden Project's landscapes in all areas including woodwork such as building and maintaining decking, fixing cobbles or installing new garden developments. This is a public facing role.

What will an Estate Horticultural Volunteer do?  

Our Estate Volunteers will help maintain and develop the Eden Project's estate, engaging with a range of plants and ecosystems including wetlands, coppices, Chilean flora and meadows. This role, once trained, may include work with small machinery such as strimmers and mowers. This is a public facing role.

What will a Biomes and Outdoor Gardens Volunteer do? 

Volunteers will support the Horticultural Team to engage and inspire visitors by creating world class exhibits of fruit, vegetables and ornamental displays, covering both geographical and ethnobotanical narratives, from farming and food systems, to the science behind weather. This will include seasonal jobs including pruning, soil preparation, sowing of seeds, harvesting, pest and disease monitoring and protection, Biome maintenance, weeding and harvesting. This is a public facing role.

What will a Nursery Horticultural Crops Volunteer do? 

Our Nursery Horticultural Volunteers will help propagate plants vegatively and by seed for our plant retail outlets, for food production for our restaurants and for the plant collection that is the corner stone of the Eden Project. Predominantly, this is not a public facing role.

Back-of-house volunteers could assist the Horticultural Team with data basing plant and seed collections, creating herbarium specimens, maintaining our library and ethnobotany collection. This is not a public facing role.