Dunwoody Community Garden a Winner of a Fruit Orchard

The Dunwoody Community Garden, a hub for community volunteerism and food donation, was named a winner in a national promotion for a fruit-tree orchard.

The contest by Edy's Fruit Bars - which has been underway since April - was conducted via online voting.

The local community garden wasn't one of the first round of winners. However, the garden had the backing of more than 33,600 votes in the second round of voting which ended at midnight Monday.   

The garden posted this message to supporters on its Facebook page - "Feeling gratitude for those who made this voting journey with us. All of us regulars continue voting tonight, and wonder what we will do without voting tomorrow.We have been voting daily since April 18!"

The community garden came in third in the second round of voting. Similar gardens in Bridger, South Dakota, San Francisco, and Port Washington, Wisconsin were also named winners in the recent round of voting.

The fruit orchard will expand the popular community garden. Community garden members posted a rough layout of where the orchard would be planted, and the early sketches show the trees ringing the raised garden beds already cultivated there.

According to the diagram, pear trees, apple trees and plum trees would be added, as well as raspberry and blackberry brambles and blueberry bushes.

Dunwoody Community Garden members are calling people who supported them in the online voting to come out for a group photo Tuesday night.

"Please come to the garden tonight at 6pm for a group photo celebrating our win. If you have been voting we'd love to have you in the photo. If you haven't, just come anyway. See you then," according to a post on their Facebook page.