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Cultivating Our Community: Something Good is Growing Thanks to a grant for a community-wide beautification project from the Ruth Mott Foundation for Keep Genesee County Beautiful (KGCB), Flint, Mich., has been going through a beautification makeover since 2007.
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The “Cultivating Our Community” project, a Gateway partnership between Affiliate Keep Genesee site County Beautiful KGCB, Ruth Mott MI Foundation and the Location Genesee County, Mich. Genesee Regional Gateway Chamber of site Commerce, has been a catalyst for KGCB to get other county-wide organizations to partThe project, “Cultivating Our Community,” has initiner in the re-development of Flint. “Cultivating Our ated a new way of thinking about Genesee County, Community” is focused on literally “changing the while promoting the community as a vibrant, clean visual landscape” of the community in a permanent and attractive place to live and do business. and easily replicated way, from beautifying public spaces, businesses, and schools to an individual home-owner’s property. Sponsor Ruth Mott Foundation
With the use of selected low maintenance planting materials, the community has been encouraged to use a plant palette consisting of daffodils, daylilies and other seasonal plants to shower Genesee County with year-round color. The project was
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