Team brings farmer?s market to life for children?s charity
Team brings farmer?s market to life for children?s charity
When was the last time your kids put learning and fun together? ?Green Top Two ? Farmer?s Market,? a playhouse being built for the 2008 Cottages for Kids charity, event does exactly that.
Cottages for Kids is a fundraising event that benefi ts Children?s Volunteer Health Network, Inc., a faith based 501(c)3 non-profi t organization that facilitates free access to medical, dental and mental health care for uninsured and underinsured children. In an effort to raise money for this cause, builders and architects come together to craft ?cottages? or playhouses that are subsequently auctioned off with the proceeds going to the charity.
The Green Top Gang ? Gary Justiss, architect; Artisan of Seagrove Beach, builders; and Jan and Steve Stevens, expediters ? have come together for a second year to build a cottage. Idealist Susan Horn of Artisan dreamed up the cottage concept and architect Gary Justiss put pen to paper to focus the ideas into a unifi ed design. Contractor Peter Horn will soon bring the project into 3-dimensional reality.
Justiss commented that ?the idea is to recall a roadside vegetable stand? that will provide children with some of life?s most important lessons while at the same time being fun and cool. Green Top Two is a vegetable-lemonade stand including wagons with raised beds for planting. The cottage also includes a catchment system to collect rainwater for the gardens.
The Green Top Gang is a well-oiled team working together for its second year to contribute to CVHN. In addition to designing a highly unique cottage, the group has a teamwork process that is world class and used by top product innovation companies in the United States. They fi rst incubate their ideas. Then they brainstorm, throwing out all ideas no matter how crazy, and finally get down to the difficult task of winnowing the ideas to pick the final, best ideas.
The Justiss-Artisan team created the Farmer?s Market so that all kids will know how delightful, easy and fun it is to grow things to eat. They say, ?Anybody can do it. The seeds know what to do.?
Justiss and Horn explain that a good lesson to learn is where our food comes from. You put a seed in the ground and it grows into a tomato. This teaches a number of lessons about reaping and sowing. Everything starts as a seed, something you have to plant and take care of. It grows and multiplies and then you have more than you need so you decide whether to sell it or give it away.
The Green Top Two Farmer?s Market will show kids where their food comes from and that everything in life starts off from a small seed. If you are diligent and take care of it, it can grow into something useful that you can then use to help yourself or others.
Gary Justiss, architect, is based in Birmingham with operations throughout the Gulf Coast, Southeast United States and Central America. His fi rm specializes in designing New Urbanist communities with an emphasis on the custom residential buildings. He has designed more than a hundred custom houses, as well as several commercial, recreational and civic buildings.
Artisan?s offi ce is located in Seagrove Beach. In addition to building beautiful, highperformance homes for clients all along the Design Coast since 1984, Artisan has developed a highly skilled and versatile team fueled by cooperation, accountability and respect. In an interview, Artisan partner Susan Horn said, ?Community service is an integral part of our business model ? finding creative and fulfilling ways to give wherever we can, however we can, and encouraging our colleagues to do the same.?
This is the second year Gary and Artisan have partnered for the Cottages for Kids charity. In 2007, the team designed and built ?Greentop Cottage? for the event.
CVHN is a faithbased, 501(c)3 organization that seeks to enhance the lives of uninsured and underinsured school aged children by facilitating free immediate access to medical, dental and mental health care. To learn more about CVHN or volunteer, visit the CVHN Web site at www. cvhnkids.org. To learn more about Gary Justiss contact him at (205) 678-2887. To learn more about Artisan of Seagrove Beach Inc. contact Susan Horn at (850) 231-4604, or visit Artisan?s Web site, www.artisanbuilds.com.
The Green Top Two ? Farmer?s market? is a playhouse for the 2008 Cottages for Kids fundraising event benefiting Children?s Volunteer Health Network. (Provided by Mary Konovsky)
Team brings farmer?s market to life for children?s charity
When was the last time your kids put learning and fun together? ?Green Top Two ? Farmer?s Market,? a playhouse being built for the 2008 Cottages for Kids charity, event does exactly that.
Cottages for Kids is a fundraising event that benefi ts Children?s Volunteer Health Network, Inc., a faith based 501(c)3 non-profi t organization that facilitates free access to medical, dental and mental health care for uninsured and underinsured children. In an effort to raise money for this cause, builders and architects come together to craft ?cottages? or playhouses that are subsequently auctioned off with the proceeds going to the charity.
The Green Top Gang ? Gary Justiss, architect; Artisan of Seagrove Beach, builders; and Jan and Steve Stevens, expediters ? have come together for a second year to build a cottage. Idealist Susan Horn of Artisan dreamed up the cottage concept and architect Gary Justiss put pen to paper to focus the ideas into a unifi ed design. Contractor Peter Horn will soon bring the project into 3-dimensional reality.
Justiss commented that ?the idea is to recall a roadside vegetable stand? that will provide children with some of life?s most important lessons while at the same time being fun and cool. Green Top Two is a vegetable-lemonade stand including wagons with raised beds for planting. The cottage also includes a catchment system to collect rainwater for the gardens.
The Green Top Gang is a well-oiled team working together for its second year to contribute to CVHN. In addition to designing a highly unique cottage, the group has a teamwork process that is world class and used by top product innovation companies in the United States. They fi rst incubate their ideas. Then they brainstorm, throwing out all ideas no matter how crazy, and finally get down to the difficult task of winnowing the ideas to pick the final, best ideas.
The Justiss-Artisan team created the Farmer?s Market so that all kids will know how delightful, easy and fun it is to grow things to eat. They say, ?Anybody can do it. The seeds know what to do.?
Justiss and Horn explain that a good lesson to learn is where our food comes from. You put a seed in the ground and it grows into a tomato. This teaches a number of lessons about reaping and sowing. Everything starts as a seed, something you have to plant and take care of. It grows and multiplies and then you have more than you need so you decide whether to sell it or give it away.
The Green Top Two Farmer?s Market will show kids where their food comes from and that everything in life starts off from a small seed. If you are diligent and take care of it, it can grow into something useful that you can then use to help yourself or others.
Gary Justiss, architect, is based in Birmingham with operations throughout the Gulf Coast, Southeast United States and Central America. His fi rm specializes in designing New Urbanist communities with an emphasis on the custom residential buildings. He has designed more than a hundred custom houses, as well as several commercial, recreational and civic buildings.
Artisan?s offi ce is located in Seagrove Beach. In addition to building beautiful, highperformance homes for clients all along the Design Coast since 1984, Artisan has developed a highly skilled and versatile team fueled by cooperation, accountability and respect. In an interview, Artisan partner Susan Horn said, ?Community service is an integral part of our business model ? finding creative and fulfilling ways to give wherever we can, however we can, and encouraging our colleagues to do the same.?
This is the second year Gary and Artisan have partnered for the Cottages for Kids charity. In 2007, the team designed and built ?Greentop Cottage? for the event.
CVHN is a faithbased, 501(c)3 organization that seeks to enhance the lives of uninsured and underinsured school aged children by facilitating free immediate access to medical, dental and mental health care. To learn more about CVHN or volunteer, visit the CVHN Web site at www. cvhnkids.org. To learn more about Gary Justiss contact him at (205) 678-2887. To learn more about Artisan of Seagrove Beach Inc. contact Susan Horn at (850) 231-4604, or visit Artisan?s Web site, www.artisanbuilds.com.
The Green Top Two ? Farmer?s market? is a playhouse for the 2008 Cottages for Kids fundraising event benefiting Children?s Volunteer Health Network. (Provided by Mary Konovsky)
