We have a couple of experiential High Schools here that always need a project as well as Prescott College which has an intense focus on the environment etc. so I have lots of groups to go to for help. But I really want to get the Vets involved and make it themselves. Then if they get good at it they can maybe sell them.
If anyone wants the plans I have just email me. They lots of pictures etc. I've accumulated several since I got the one from Greece.
Prescott Creeks (a local nonprofit) did their annual clean up yesterday. Hundreds of locals volunteer and are assigned various sections of our many creeks and they clean up all the trash. We toss the trash and anything that can be upcycled is placed in specific location for artists to come take what they want to make something from. We then have a fundraiser where all that art is auctioned off as one of our fundraisers. It's amazing what people can think of the make from and old tire and rusty cans. This year was a low turn out because of Easter but we had over 500 volunteers and took out 5 tons of trash and about 2 tons of upcyclables. One of the first years we did the clean up we took out over 11 tons of trash. Every time we get hard rains it brings all sorts of "stuff" down from higher up the mountains. A lot of the homeless live in the forest so we're careful to instruct volunteers not to invade a site that looks lived in.
Well. . . this was only partly plant related so forgive me if I broke some rule. I'll send you the flower that I make out of an empty plastic Rum bottle I found!
jean
