Nature Hills Nursery Green America Awards

We are thrilled and grateful for the hundreds of worthy submissions we have received and are very excited to make the 2010 Nature Hills Nursery Green America Awards bigger and better. We will begin taking submissions for the 2010 Nature Hills Nursery Green America Awards in September, 2009.

We are pleased to introduce the inaugural Nature Hills Nursery Green America Awards. These awards will be presented annually to groups and organizations that are making a difference in their communities. We are looking for community groups who are committed to improving their local environment by planting trees, bushes and shrubs to make their communities a better place to live.

What types of community improvement projects qualify?
The award winners will be chosen from those groups who submit a local environment community project that makes best use of the trees, bushes and shrubs that Nature Hills Nursery will award.

Examples of potential Nature Hills Nursery Green America Award winning projects could be:

- A local soil erosion control plan that utilizes plants to stabilize steep hillside slopes or river banks.

- The reclamation of an abandoned lot where a house or factory once stood with the creation of a fruit orchard that will provide much needed fruit to nearby low-income residents.

- Creating or refurbishing the landscape in a community park.

- Creating a wildlife habitat for birds or animals on donated land that is (or has been) abandoned or neglected.

Our goal is to help communities reclaim land, turning eyesores into oases. We want to help dedicated individuals, groups and organizations make their local communities better by providing a living gift of trees and plants that not only clean the air but also provide respite and a natural retreat. With each reclamation, wildlife and beauty can once again flourish.

Why did we create the Nature Hills Nursery Green America Awards?
Nature Hills Nursery has been fortunate to prosper from growing and selling plants. All of our plant production is carefully managed so the soils we depend upon are not depleted of their resources, ensuring a healthy soil environment for continued plant growth. We feel it is time to give back a portion of the plants we produce annually to projects that will help reduce carbon dioxide and beautify communities.

Grand Prize - $2,500 of plant materials (Example 25 perennials, 45 small fruit bushes, 50 shrubs, 15 fruit trees, 15 trees)

First Place - $1,500 of plant materials

Second Place - $1,000 of plant material

Winners announced April 17, 2009

Awards will be issued to each winner in the form of a gift certificate which can be redeemed for plant materials from Nature Hills Nursery. It is our hope that, by providing plants, we can help these winners create places of beauty and nature in their local communities.

· Eligible submissions will be accepted from charitable or educational organizations that operate as a non profit entity

· Awards must be used by the winning organization to complete their project plan and cannot be sold or used in any way other than for the project described in the application submitted by the organization.