Fiskars® - 2007 Winners

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PROVIDING THE TOOLS TO GROW

What inspired Project Orange Thumb?

Fiskars Garden and Outdoor Living is an innovator in the lawn and garden market and we see community garden groups as innovators in their communities. We believe it's important to support the people who make communities better places to live. Fiskars created Project Orange Thumb to support community garden groups with tools and materials.

Why call it Project Orange Thumb?

There's a natural connection between gardeners and green thumbs. There's also a connection between Fiskars and our trademark orange handles. So pulling them together seemed like a natural.

2007 Project Orange Thumb grant winners

Allison Community Garden—Westminster, Colorado
Good Green Garden (Monterey High School)—Burbank, California
A Little Bit of Paradise (Walter F. White Elementary School)—Atlanta, Georgia
Hollin Meadow’s Form & Texture Garden—Alexandria, Virginia
The Enabling Garden—Altoona, Iowa
Garden Of Happiness—Bronx, New York
Treme Jazz Garden—New Orleans, Louisiana
Rhinelander Area Community Garden—Rhinelander, Wisconsin
Helping Hands Community Garden—Bellingham, Washington
Hope Garden’s Outreach Garden—Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Congratulations to our 2007 grant winners.

Although the application process for the 2007 grants has ended, we encourage you to continue to visit www.fiskars.com for Project Orange Thumb updates.

This is an annual program and applications for the 2008 grants will be posted in January 2008.

"AT FISKARS GARDEN & OUTDOOR LIVING, WE PUSH DESIGN INNOVATION TO MAKE BETTER, STRONGER GARDEN TOOLS THAT ARE EASIER ON THE BODY. TO SEE THESE TOOLS IN USE BY VOLUNTEERS OF ALL AGES TO MAKE BETTER, STRONGER NEIGHBORHOODS IS TRULY AN INSPIRATION. WE'RE VERY PROUD OF PROJECT ORANGE THUMB AND GRATEFUL TO THE COMMUNITY GARDEN GROUPS THAT ARE HELPING US MAKE THIS PROGRAM A SUCCESS."

-Peter Favilla, Vice President
FISKARS GARDEN & OUTDOOR LIVING