The document discusses the symbolism of the Ginkgo tree and how it relates to the mission of the Community Foundation of Elkhart County. It notes that Ginkgo trees can live over 1,000 years and have persisted since prehistoric times. Following this, it states that the Foundation, like the enduring Ginkgo, will support and strengthen the community for generations to come by funding local projects and initiatives. Finally, it mentions that Ginkgo trees will be planted on-site as a reminder of the Foundation's long-lasting mission to assist community needs and improve quality of life.
Plants and animals can change their environment. Living things need water, air, and resources from the land, and they live in places that have the things they need. Humans use natural resources for everything they do.
Plants and animals can change their environment. Living things need water, air, and resources from the land, and they live in places that have the things they need. Humans use natural resources for everything they do.
Poor people living in difficult conditions can easily produce fresh food by gardening on sacks. It can be recommended to create tunnels with drought-tolerant Navajo willows to improve the gardening conditions (shadow, air humidity). More yield equals less poverty and less desertification.
In our yards, our parks and along our streets we plant lines of lonely trees. But a tree is not a forest. Lonely trees are severed from their ecological communities—at the mercy of wind, weather and disease. Rewilding with Little Forests re-enchants our yards and our city with biodiversity... what Robert MacFarlane calls “the wondrous, teeming, calamitously threatened variety & variability of life on Earth, sometimes measured by species richness.”
Introduction To Permaculture Weekend CourseKat Szuminska
An introduction to Permaculture Course first given at the Hawkesbury Earthcare Centre in April 2009
http://www.earthcare.org.au/intropermcourse by Penny & Karim http://caughtintheart.blogspot.com/
& Kat http://twitter.com/katska
The course is based on Bill Mollison's "Introduction to Permaculture" http://www.tagari.com/item.php?itemid=156
Poor people living in difficult conditions can easily produce fresh food by gardening on sacks. It can be recommended to create tunnels with drought-tolerant Navajo willows to improve the gardening conditions (shadow, air humidity). More yield equals less poverty and less desertification.
In our yards, our parks and along our streets we plant lines of lonely trees. But a tree is not a forest. Lonely trees are severed from their ecological communities—at the mercy of wind, weather and disease. Rewilding with Little Forests re-enchants our yards and our city with biodiversity... what Robert MacFarlane calls “the wondrous, teeming, calamitously threatened variety & variability of life on Earth, sometimes measured by species richness.”
Introduction To Permaculture Weekend CourseKat Szuminska
An introduction to Permaculture Course first given at the Hawkesbury Earthcare Centre in April 2009
http://www.earthcare.org.au/intropermcourse by Penny & Karim http://caughtintheart.blogspot.com/
& Kat http://twitter.com/katska
The course is based on Bill Mollison's "Introduction to Permaculture" http://www.tagari.com/item.php?itemid=156
Rip out your lawn and replace it with a food forest. How to design a nut or fruit tree guild. Includes planting palettes for a black walnut guild, native plant guild, asian inspired guild, medicinal guild, medieval guild, ornamental guild, apple guild, pear guild and apple guilds.
1. CommunityFoundationof Elkhart County—GinkgoLeafLogo
“He that plants trees, loves others besides himself”
-ThomasFuller,1732.
The Ginkgotree is a living fossil,anatural relicof prehistorictimes.Itisrumoredthatcertainindividual
Ginkgoesthroughoutthe world are overa thousandyearsold,andtheirresistance to disease andpests
have led culturestorevere the tree foritspersistence andresiliency.Followingthe Hiroshimabombings
whichdevastatedJapanin1945, six Ginkgotreeswithstoodthe fearsome blastandare thrivingtoday—
buildingshave evenbeenbuilt around thesetreestoallow themtocontinue togrow,inhopesthatthe
treeswill protectthese structures. The distinctive Ginkgoleavesare frequentlyused assymbolsof
prevailinghope andstrength.
The CommunityFoundationof ElkhartCountyseedsthe local landscape withforesightandconviction.
The Foundationendorseslocal projects,advocatesforprograms,andpromotesinitiativesthatwill
resonate inthiscommunityforyears--evendecades-- tocome.Muchlike thattime-tested,dependable
Ginkgotree,the Foundationwillcontinuetosupportandstrengthenthe communitylongafterthe seeds
of these idealshave beenplantedandwateredby the citizensof Elkhart County—inspiringgood.
In additiontoitspresence inancienttexts foritsstrengthandlastingcharacter,the Ginkgo’smedicinal
qualitiesdate backjustasfar, and are still practicedtothisday. Ginkgonutshave been proventouphold
cognitive functionandslowmemoryloss, the extractdrawnfromitsleaveshasshown signsof
improvingthe visionof glaucomapatients, and,finally,prescriptionsforGinkgoasa treatmentfor
asthmaand bronchitis appearover3,000 years ago. Similarly,the Community Foundationof Elkhart
Countyassistshundredsof communityconcernsandneeds,supportingorganizations andendeavors
dedicatedtoimprovingthe qualityof life of ourchildren, ourlocal businesses,andourculture asa
whole—impactingsuccess.
Ginkgosare connectedas part of an unbrokenchainof geneticcontinuitythatlinksall livingginkgosto
theirancestorsthatgrew more than200 millionyearsago. The Ginkgoleaf waschosenforitsunique
character and distinctiveappearance thatwillstandout andbe immediatelyrecognizablethroughout
the Elkhart community.Asthe Foundationdeliverssupporttoorganizationsandnonprofitsrighthere at
home,actual Ginkgotreeswill be plantedon-site toserve asareminderof the enduringnature of the
Foundation’smission.
Inspiringgood. Impacting success.
