Volunteers Bloom to Prepare Cleo Bailey Experiment Garden for Spring — The Anderson Observer

Volunteers Bloom to Prepare Cleo Bailey Experiment Garden for Spring — The Anderson Observer

Greg Wilson/Anderson ObserverThe bees at The Cleo Bailey Experiment have not waited for the calendar to declare spring. On Saturday morning on Anderson’s East Whitner Street, they were already taking what Zephaniah Smith, a co‑founder of the project, calls “orientation flights,” small golden blurs zigzagging over raised beds where blackberries are beginning to push new growth through the soil. Around them, a couple of dozen volunteers in work gl…