WHISK AND QUILL/Healthy Snacks Fuel Local Garden Volunteers

Photo by Jordan Wright/Local Kicks Alexandria Mayor Bill Euille at Del Artisans Gallery with Garden Curator Jordan Wright.

ALEXANDRIA, VA - Under the guise of calling power bars and lemonade food reporting, I’ll relate last week’s triumph at Alexandria’s Del Ray Artisans Gallery’s gardens, which I have been curating with a small but dedicated group of gallery members for the past 10 years.  

Photo by Jordan Wright/Local Kicks Volunteers at Del ray Artisans Gallery with Mayor Bill Euille.

The single-story clapboard gallery began its renaissance on a dirt-and-trash-strewn lot where our all-volunteer gardeners have helped to transform the blighted property into an award-winning garden featured on Del Ray’s House and Garden Tour.

Usually we have eight to ten folks during spring and fall to weed, plant, mulch and prune, keeping the grounds up to snuff for the Gallery’s monthly shows.
 
This year we got herculean help from a batttalion of volunteers.  

From SunTrust Bank: Steve Truitt, Brian MacDonnell, Bob Dail, Jill Fields, Chris Hartman, Lori Caumeil, Mark Leonard, Lauton Brown, and Jim McCormack.

From King Street Wireless: Remy Kauffmann, Allison DiNardo, Robert DiNardo, Judy Harmatz and Bruce Kauffmann.
 
What a truly amazing, upbeat, cheerful and hard-working group they are.
 
We thank them all for their participation.  

Drop by and see the results!

Photo by Jordan Wright/Local Kicks Jordan Wright at the Del Ray Artisans Gallery's Spring Garden Clean Up with Volunteer from SunTrust Bank.