Landscape volunteers needed To volunteer, call Heather Muheim, outreach and volunteer coordinator, at Loveland Habitat for Humanity’s main office at 669-9769.

Loveland Habitat for Humanity is in a crunch to get volunteers to do landscaping work at seven of the Habitat homes.

“The weather is warming up. We need to get the landscaping in before it gets too hot for the grass to take,” said Vince Deely, resource development and marketing director of Loveland Habitat, an affordable home-building program for low-income Loveland residents. “It takes a lot of manpower to get it done.”

Two of the homes are in the neighborhood of the main office, 1154 Second St. SE, and the rest are in the Sierra Valley subdivision, a mix of single-family homes, duplexes and quadplexes where most of Habitat’s work is currently being done. Construction on the seven homes was completed in late fall and over the winter and spring months, and the residents have since moved in.

“All of these are completed homes, so they’re excited to be getting grass and no longer looking at dirt,” said Cindi Werner, executive director of Loveland Habitat.

The landscaping work involves laying sod, putting in rock, planting trees and shrubs and installing sprinkler systems. The work can be done during Habitat’s regular construction days of Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and up to 20 people can work at a construction site.

To do the work, 150 to 200 volunteers are needed.

“We want to create a nice environment,” Werner said. “It’s more than just the home, it’s the aesthetics. We want to create a nice product in the community, so landscaping is the final touch.”

Shelley Widhalm: 970-699-5408, swidhalm@reporter-herald.com, twitter.com/ShelleyWidhalm