Desert Botanical Garden's 550 Volunteers Logged 51,480 Hours in 2025

Highlights

• Desert Botanical Garden's 550 volunteers contributed 51,480 service hours in 2025, the garden reported in April.
• Two volunteers reached 30 years of service; 14 total have served more than three decades.
• 156 new volunteers joined the program in 2025, adding to a corps the garden says is equivalent to nearly 25 full-time employees.

Desert Botanical Garden reported that its 550 volunteers contributed 51,480 service hours in 2025 — a figure the garden says is the equivalent of nearly 25 full-time staff members.

The garden welcomed 156 new volunteers during the year. Among the broader corps, 168 volunteers have served between 10 and 20 years, 47 between 20 and 30 years, and 14 for more than 30 years. Twenty volunteers reached the 10-year mark in 2025; two reached 25 years; two reached 30 years.

The garden described volunteers as performing roles that include greeting guests, maintaining trails, supporting research collections, and teaching. The figures were published in April as part of Volunteer Appreciation Month.

Around the web

Minimal public engagement detected. One Reddit post mentions the Sonoran Desert exhibit at a botanical garden in Amsterdam, drawing a tangential connection to Phoenix but offering no substantive discussion of the Desert Botanical Garden's volunteer program, hours logged, or service milestones.

Public discussion (links to original posts):

• Reddit · r/phoenix — u/FartSoup000 (1,092 upvotes · 40 comments)

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