Friday, March 28, 2014

Volunteers needed to plant Butterfly Garden at Cunningham Park

(From the City of Joplin)

Volunteers are invited to help plant the Butterfly Garden of the Overlook that will be a main element in the Landscapes of Resilience project in Cunningham Park. Gardeners will work together to plant butterfly-friendly trees, shrubs and flowers in the Cunningham Park overlook. The group will begin planting at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 5 at Cunningham Park, 26th & Maiden Lane, in the northeast corner.
Volunteers are asked to bring planting tools, if possible, and everything they might need for a morning or a day afield. Some tools will be available on loan for the day.
This a partnership project of the City of Joplin, the TKF Foundation, Drury University, the Missouri Department of Conservation, Forest ReLeaf of Missouri, and Southwest Missouri Association of Resource, Conservation and Development Association (RC&D).
For questions, call the Joplin Parks and Recreation office at 417-624-6937, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
The Butterfly Garden and Overlook, a Landscapes of Resilience project, was announced during the program of the second anniversary event recognizing the community’s resilience, resolve and realization throughout the recovery work since May 22, 2011. The project is funded through the TKF Foundation which provided Joplin and New York City a portion of a $585,000 grant to each community in order to create an open space in recovery and healing. A multi-disciplinary research and design team proposed the “Landscapes of Resilience” project that will study the role of open spaces in recovery from both the Joplin 2011 tornado and Superstorm Sandy that hit New York City and surrounding area, killing 72 people and causing extensive damage in October 2012.
This project is made possible through the work of many partners, including Cornell University, U.S. Forest Service, Drury University, Forest ReLeaf of Missouri, Great River Associates, Till Design, Missouri Department of Conservation Joplin and Joplin Parks and Recreation.
To assist with the project, Drury students have gathered stories of courage, heroism and resilience from community members to be included as part of this new educational space and healing garden at Cunningham Park, thanks to the TKF Foundation’s Open Spaces Sacred Places initiative. The Foundation’s OSSP fosters natural settings for the public in helping them cope with stress and burdens resulting from disasters.

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