Story and photo by Maggie Volkwein
Tuesday was Earth Day and the birds along the West Fork were singing. Spring flowers are blooming. And the West Fork Garden Club was out and about.
The ladies planted a flower garden around the Methodist Mission in Minnora, the local thrift store. Everyone started out fairly clean. The dirt alongside the store was tilled and the planting began.
Gardeners, on their knees, hands deep in the soil, talked about gardening. Maggie Volkwein planted wild daffodils on the bank. Other perennial plants, columbine, alyssum, day lilies, and irises, were planted and mulched by the enthusiastic Garden Club. The youngest gardener gathered fist-size pebbles and watched carefully while the new plants were watered.
The Mission has a new look. The Garden Club had dirty hands, dirty knees, and everyone was smiling.
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