News Release

Victory Garden Volunteers Needed at Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Resident dutifully maintaining his Victory Garden

News Release Date: April 2, 2019

Contact: Effie Houston, [phone]

Contact: Robbie Meyer, [phone]

Manhattan Project National Historical Park is seeking volunteers to help maintain a World War II Victory Garden and native pollinator garden. Volunteers will assist with the planning, planting, harvesting, and maintaining of the gardens. The gardens will be located at the park’s visitor center in the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge next to the newly relocated Flattop House. 

All that is needed is dedication, a can do attitude and the love of working with plants. This position may require volunteers to actively bend, stoop, reach and work with gardening tools in an outdoor setting. Volunteers will receive training about the Manhattan Project and WWII history as well as National Park Service operations. This is a great opportunity to recreate and maintain a historically accurate war garden to showcase this significant time period in our nation’s history.

For more information about becoming a National Park Service volunteer at Manhattan Project Oak Ridge site, please call Effie Houston at [phone], or via email. The Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge is located at 461 W. Outer Drive, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.