On a hot Saturday morning, Susan Varlamoff pulls weeds at her church. A parishioner at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Lilburn, she’s in the woods behind the parking lot, yanking aggressive shrubs out from between the trees.
Varlamoff is here on this garden work day with dozens of other parishioners. They’re weeding a colorful bed of wildflowers and spreading mulch along a forest trail that features the Stations of the Cross. One brave volunteer is pulling up poison ivy.
“It’s a small army of people that have dedicated their morning to getting this work done, and it’s made a huge difference,” Varlamoff says.
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