Are you a part of our Rosewood Community or an organization that volunteers to make our community better?
At Rosewood we can use your help!
Below are a few projects your group can help us to complete.
If you are able to provide labor AND materials – That would be great! .
Just labor? Don't worry. We gratefully and happily take that too!.
Thank you!
Please contact us at info@wawawasiwaldorf.org and fill our our Volunteer Registration below if you or your group are ready to help!.
We will get back to you as soon as possible!
At Rosewood we can use your help!
Below are a few projects your group can help us to complete.
If you are able to provide labor AND materials – That would be great! .
Just labor? Don't worry. We gratefully and happily take that too!.
Thank you!
Please contact us at info@wawawasiwaldorf.org and fill our our Volunteer Registration below if you or your group are ready to help!.
We will get back to you as soon as possible!
FALL & WINTER MONTHLY CHORES
Cottage indoors:
Rosewood Cottage Outdoors (Farm, playgarden, Cottage exterior)
Cottage indoors:
- Focus on cleaning and organizing Rosewood Cottage rooms: Rosewood family room, playroom, restroom and children dressing closet, craft room, kitchen.
- Wash drapes and window treatments.
- Clean baseboards and corners.
- Clean window sills and window wells.
- Vacuum upholstered furniture, clean playroom rug. Move furniture and vacuum beneath and behind it.
- Wash interior windows.
- Inspect and Organize Rosewood kitchen supplies for cooking and baking. Make an Inventory. New equipment buying list.
- Pull refrigerator away from the wall, and vacuum the condenser coils. For bottom-mounted coils, use a long, narrow brush to clean coils of dust and debris.
- Wash light-diffusing bowls from light fixtures.
- Check and empty the central vacuum's collection area.
- Inspect washer hoses for bulges, cracks or splits. Replace them every other year.
- Check dryer exhaust tube and vent for built-up lint, debris or birds' nests! Make sure the exterior vent door closes tightly when not in use.
- Buy a winter's supply of furnace filters (Change filters monthly)
- Drain sediment from hot water heaters.
Rosewood Cottage Outdoors (Farm, playgarden, Cottage exterior)
- Touch up paint on trim, railings and decks. Use a wire brush to remove flaking paint; prime bare wood first.
- Check caulk around windows and doors.
- Inspect external doors and gates. Installation of weather-stripping, door thresholds if needed.
- Wash exterior windows.
- Drain and store garden hoses. Install insulating covers on exterior spigots.
- Check gutters and downspouts. Clear of debris if necessary.
- Clean leaves out of rain gutters
- Check cottage chimney, and make sure it is ready for several months of fires!. Here is a great video that can runs through the basics of chimney cleaning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz8UBjesjUU&feature=youtu.be
- Clear trails (Ongoing)
• Removing dead and fallen branches from nature trails.
• Cut big logs to make "cookies".
• Clearing the paths from leaves and forest debris. - Build a Flagstone Pathway (Deck area)
- Stepping stones for play garden and woodland entrance: Parents - Child project : Please watch the video to have a general idea of what is needed to do this project
- Check play equipment in the playgarden, tree house and mud kitchen. Repair if needed.
- Gathering leaves to add to our gardens
- Spread compost over gardens
- Barn and outbuildings clean up and repair.
- Building a trellis bed combo for the garden https://morningchores.com/tomato-trellis-cage/
- Clear out all dead plants in the garden.
- Fence mending
- Leaves raking
- Winterize chicken coop
- Build Firewood Storage
- All the equipment is washed and checked for needed repairs, so it is ready to use in the spring.
- Bulbs and shrubs planting
- Hose draining and storage