Tulips on Troost

Join Tulips on Troost volunteers at their annual January 1st, 2012 bulb planting event and kick off the new year by doing something good...planting tulips on Troost Avenue.   Yes, we've got bulbs to bury and the fun begins at Noon in front of St. Mark Hope and Peace (3800 Troost Avenue).  Bring your own trowel and shovel.  We'll provide the tulips and hot toddies.

Contact:  Durwin Rice (816) 447-0539 for more information.

Driving home in our Kia (which was filled to the brim with 8,000 tulip bulbs), after registering ourselves for this weekend's CLI conference, we noticed this new billboard from Truman Medical Center.

Thanks TMC for the tulips imagery.  It is very welcome during our dirty digging days of October when we plant and we really appreciate your agreeing with us about healthy living.

We CAN take care of both ourselves and our communities and tulips are (for us of course) the very best image of health and happiness and rebirth.

After you add today's 8,000 tulip bulbs to the 12,000 we picked up last week you'll understand why we're still hoping you'll join us this Saturday, October 15th for our big Community Planting event on Troost Avenue.

If you can help, join us at Meyer Blvd. and Troost Avenue between 9AM and Noon and join a tulip planting team! 

Welcome, again, CLI delegates.  We're hoping to meet as many of you as possible while you're here in KC.

Please, please, please seek us out and tell us all about what's working at home to improve your communities!

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Lessons and Carols is a pretty neat KC event, too!

And, because we like to help, we're offering a plethora of opportunities for you to show off your green thumb at our October 15th Community Planting Date or just show up and put your carpentry, mathematical, organizational and even your indefinable skills to good use in one of our two greenhouses!

Two Greenhouses?
Yes, Tulips on Troost is excited to be expanding our educational program (currently housed at the Center High School greenhouse) to include the recently built greenhouse at Center Alternative School.  Unlike the expansions most of us are already too familiar with (expansions that require the purchase of a new pair of pants), this expansion only requires the help of some additional greenhouse volunteers.

You don't think you know enough yet about growing in a greenhouse to participate?  You are not alone.  Come learn with us and help us cultivate everything from peanuts to pineapples.  There are weekly opportunities to participate in a class with our enthusiastic Life Skills students (who will teach you a lot) and there are opportunities to plot your own schedule to mentor a student (or a student team) in some  very exciting and practical gardening experiences.

Plus, our greenhouses could use some improvements, i.e. repairs to the furnace and ventilation systems (at CHS) and new shade cloths, tables and shelving at the new Alternative greenhouse.  The need list goes on so maybe you should contact us at (816) 447-0539 and find out where your set of skills, expertise or ability to make a contribution fits in.

October 15th Community Planting Date

For the first time in Tulips on Troost's history we have more volunteers signed up to plant tulip bulbs than we have bulbs purchased to plant!  That means two things:

1) First, if you join us to volunteer on the 15th, you won't have to work all that hard since we've already got lots of promised participation.  It all begins at 9AM on Saturday 10/15 at the corner of Meyer Blvd. and Troost Avenue.

2) Second, it  means you should probably make a tax-deductible contribution to Southtown Foundation today so that we can purchase more bulbs!


Please mail your checks to:  Tulips on Troost/Southtown Foundation, 6814 Troost Ave., KCMO 64131 and THANK YOU for supporting the transformation of Troost Avenue!

Designer Charles Brown wants to help promote the neighborhood along Troost Avenue.

We agree that's a good idea.

And of course the Paseo Boulevard is certainly the nicest route to take when you're driving north or south through the center of Kansas City.

Prospect, you know, has some seriously good housing for Seniors under construction as we speak.

What's next?

Finding happiness in a beautiful home on Benton Boulevard?  (If you want, Charles, we can put you in touch with the Benton Beautification Volunteer Team.)

Contact Charles at 913-522-1474 or pksteelfurniture@gmail.com to purchase your shirt!

The boys pictured are in San Francisco but you'll have just as much fun planting Troost Avenue tulip bulbs with us on Saturday, October 15th.  We'll begin very early and continue until we're done so there's a good chance you will be able to join (or bring) a team to help us get 20,000 bulbs buried by sundown.

Come Saturday, August 27th you might be ready to get out of your routine and join the Marlborough Community Coalition, the KCPD Metro Patrol and other Troost volunteers as they clean up Troost Avenue 79th to 85th streets (8AM to Noon).  For them, it's a positive way to say "Hey, we CARE about our neighborhood!"  For us, it's mostly about getting ready to plant bulbs in October along ALL of those blocks of Troost Avenue.   The Marlborough group will provide you with water, gloves and bags. You can park in the car lot behind the old King Louie (79th and Troost) and join the community!

We should also let you know that we'll be in the same area scrubbing down the Center High School greenhouse so you might want to stop by and learn about that exciting year round TOT beautification gardening project and maybe check out our Bromeliads OR tell us what it is that you want us to grow!  The greenhouse is located on the North side of the school which is at 8715 Holmes Rd.

Donations? Your cash donations for tulips are always welcome but NOW that it's August, it is also a great time to donate any plants that you are dividing or digging or wanting to get rid of in your garden.  We're all about propagating and growing at the greenhouse throughout the winter (along with the super help of the Center High School Life Skills students) so bring your flora and foliage and plastic pot (4" or larger) donations on the 27th OR let us know when's a good time for us to come pick them up. 

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