We are proud of the way our Ormiston gardens have progressed over the past five years. A rough count of the number of volunteers who have helped in the garden is 84, and that does not include help from casual passersby or organized groups of garden volunteers who come once or twice a year from Power Corps and the My Phillly Park Volunteer programs. These volunteers come for several hours in groups of 15-20 hard workers who seed, weed, plant, transplant, mulch, prune, rake, make new beds, edge the garden and offer helpful advice about garden maintenance.
Power Corps has been especially helpful in providing helpers who come to Ormiston on extra days to make up their required hours. Several members of their group stopped back to help us lay a new drip irrigation system in the garden. Watering has been a challenge this year with the drought conditions.
The latest big group of volunteers were My Philly Park volunteers from Robert Half, Inc, who came to Ormiston on May 31. Ed Duenas and Joe Soprani from My Philly Park provided us with this nifty little video, so you can see what happens when these larger groups get to work. Thank you, thank you, one and all.
