A Helping Hand

Art Weber from Woodbrier Nursery has been incredibly helpful to The Orchard Project with materials for starting plants, space to grow the plants, taking his own time to water the plants, and teaching us how to transplant them. He has shared his wisdom and encouragement for the project. And he asked for nothing in return. The Orchard Project team though longed to return his great generosity.

Michael has been going over parts of the week and I joining him on Monday mornings and Saturdays...not only to take care of The Orchard Project plants, but to help Art with his own tasks for the nursery.

Friday we had three incredible volunteers show up to help Art with clean-up.

Carl Frasch, Darryl Johnson, and I pulled out stakes and organized them, as well as pulled out dead plants and raked leaves.

Richard Cleaves potted 100 trees that Michael picked up at the Berkeley County Youth Fairgrounds for The Orchard Project. Richard stayed on till the task was finished. Richard shared that each time he thought he was done he saw more trees that needed to be planted...kind of like the Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Art thanked us for helping him out...but we could only thank him in return for the opportunity and his continued generousity.

Art took on the nursery after his father passed away and he and his family have ran it ever since. Because of the growing big companies coming into the community it is difficult for small, family run businesses like Art's nursery to compete. We encourage everyone to shop at small, local businesses in your area.