Currently there are 188 members of the Garden Association. Individuals wishing to become involved in Garden Association projects can work in the gardens, serve as docents to the public, or work on Garden Association committees such as the horticulture and long-range planning committees. Docent volunteers provide tours of the gardens and historical information to bus tours, other gardeners and garden enthusiasts. They attend classes on Yaddo and its history. Currently there are 26 active docents.
Volunteers work in the gardens performing weeding, deadheading, pruning and planting.
Regular hours for garden work are Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon, May through September. Individuals become full members of the Yaddo Garden Association after completing 15 volunteer hours. There are currently more than 120 garden volunteers and during the past year nearly 3265 hours were expended by garden volunteers doing all kinds of volunteer work.