So last night, for those not aware of it, I did a big ol' plurk filled with pretty pictures of greenery to try and think of ideas. Here are a few of mine:
- The Paths - Lovely almost tunnel-like paths (from a combination of the earth and trees over it) that is somewhere on the grounds. Upkeep is delegated to younger club members who don't have as much on their plate as those in older years, or members who mess up and this is their punishment.
- Sunflower house - SUNFLOWER HOUSES. Make a whole town of them. Probably part of some event? Sunflower mazes, little sunflower houses to play around in... Smooch your date in one of these bad boys, a+ plan
- Tree of 40 Fruit - "After sculptor Sam Van Aken bought a failing orchard in upstate New York full of hundreds of different fruit trees, he began the pain-staking process of grafting several of the different varieties together into one tree. Six years later, the result is this 40-fruit bearing tree, which includes some heirloom varieties that are centuries old." i'm not saying the GVGC needs one but they totally need one. Every generation of the club works on establishing one on the grounds? There is probably a whole orchard of these things.
- Circus Tree - ALTERNATIVELY, THIS, which is the product of six individual sycamore trees shaped, bent, and braided together like so.
- Upside Down Tree - Did you know that you can flip a tree upside down and its roots will become branches, and vice versa, instead of dying? Now you know.
- Club Bonsai - Every new member gets their own little bonsai tree to grow as celebration of them joining the club. There's like six different varieties in the plurk, so just, go wild.
- Will It Grow? - "Hey GVGC, can you grow plants on a bed? What about a musical instrument? Dining Table?" They have a challenge box open. Possibly working together with the art club?
- Good Luck Tree - you know those posts that go around of people having a "lucky statue" on their campus, and, around exam time, they just leave all sorts of shit around it, from coins to food to the WEIRDEST SHIT? This is Green Valley's, but it's a tree. Leave an offering for the tree god. (It's the GVGC's duty to make sure no one seriously fucks with it. Desperate students are horrifying.)
- Annual Wall Garden - There's a part of the school that is fully for the GVGC to plot out a vertical garden on its wall. Throughout the year, the GVGC both help put together the display, and come up with the layout for next year's garden.
- GVGC Food Challenge - Every couple of months, the club has a challenge for its members (or those in the cooking club too) to make a recipe entirely out of whatever is in season/the greenhouse has in stock. They then sell it, and whatever person/group/whatever sells the most of their product wins some sort of prize.
i swear to god i had more ideas, including section leaders, but I can't remember what those sections were for SO HERE U GO
IDEAS and stuff
- The Paths - Lovely almost tunnel-like paths (from a combination of the earth and trees over it) that is somewhere on the grounds. Upkeep is delegated to younger club members who don't have as much on their plate as those in older years, or members who mess up and this is their punishment.
- Sunflower house - SUNFLOWER HOUSES. Make a whole town of them. Probably part of some event? Sunflower mazes, little sunflower houses to play around in...
Smooch your date in one of these bad boys, a+ plan- Tree of 40 Fruit - "After sculptor Sam Van Aken bought a failing orchard in upstate New York full of hundreds of different fruit trees, he began the pain-staking process of grafting several of the different varieties together into one tree. Six years later, the result is this 40-fruit bearing tree, which includes some heirloom varieties that are centuries old." i'm not saying the GVGC needs one but they totally need one. Every generation of the club works on establishing one on the grounds? There is probably a whole orchard of these things.
- Circus Tree - ALTERNATIVELY, THIS, which is the product of six individual sycamore trees shaped, bent, and braided together like so.
- Upside Down Tree - Did you know that you can flip a tree upside down and its roots will become branches, and vice versa, instead of dying? Now you know.
- Club Bonsai - Every new member gets their own little bonsai tree to grow as celebration of them joining the club. There's like six different varieties in the plurk, so just, go wild.
- Will It Grow? - "Hey GVGC, can you grow plants on a bed? What about a musical instrument? Dining Table?" They have a challenge box open. Possibly working together with the art club?
- Good Luck Tree - you know those posts that go around of people having a "lucky statue" on their campus, and, around exam time, they just leave all sorts of shit around it, from coins to food to the WEIRDEST SHIT? This is Green Valley's, but it's a tree. Leave an offering for the tree god. (It's the GVGC's duty to make sure no one seriously fucks with it. Desperate students are horrifying.)
- Annual Wall Garden - There's a part of the school that is fully for the GVGC to plot out a vertical garden on its wall. Throughout the year, the GVGC both help put together the display, and come up with the layout for next year's garden.
- GVGC Food Challenge - Every couple of months, the club has a challenge for its members (or those in the cooking club too) to make a recipe entirely out of whatever is in season/the greenhouse has in stock. They then sell it, and whatever person/group/whatever sells the most of their product wins some sort of prize.
i swear to god i had more ideas, including section leaders, but I can't remember what those sections were for SO HERE U GO