Today@Dal

From last Thursday's Truro Daily News:

Getting her hands dirty and becoming one with nature is how Heather Hill likes to spend her Wednesday mornings.

The 68-year-old Truro resident, as well as at least a dozen other volunteers with the Friends of the Garden group, gather weekly at the Dalhousie University Agricultural Campus in Bible Hill to get their gardening fix while working on the rock garden. A specialized garden is designed to look like a mountainside and contains only plants that are associated with the alpine habitat or others that are small in stature.

Members said there was some misunderstanding within the community as to whether or not the volunteers were still manning the garden after Dalhousie became part of the campus last year. Hill confirmed she and her comrades are still hard at work, planting and enlarging the already growing garden.

“A year ago, the agricultural college became (part of) Dalhousie University,” Hill explained, adding “we just wanted to make sure that the community realizes that we’re still volunteering on campus and Dalhousie is happy to have us.”

Read the rest of this article at the Truro Daily News website.