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Black Mountain Beautification Committee
Home
Seed Money Award
Get Involved
More
  • About Us
  • Clothes Line Sale
  • Community Improv. Award
  • Consistent Look In-Town
  • Decorating
  • Donate
  • Events
  • 2022 Garden Sale
  • Garden Sites
  • Greenery Fundraiser
  • Litter Sweeps
  • The Mural on Cherry St.
  • Town Square Gardens
  • Willie Headley Award
More
  • Home
  • Seed Money Award
  • Get Involved
  • More
    • About Us
    • Clothes Line Sale
    • Community Improv. Award
    • Consistent Look In-Town
    • Decorating
    • Donate
    • Events
    • 2022 Garden Sale
    • Garden Sites
    • Greenery Fundraiser
    • Litter Sweeps
    • The Mural on Cherry St.
    • Town Square Gardens
    • Willie Headley Award
  • Home
  • Seed Money Award
  • Get Involved
  • More
    • About Us
    • Clothes Line Sale
    • Community Improv. Award
    • Consistent Look In-Town
    • Decorating
    • Donate
    • Events
    • 2022 Garden Sale
    • Garden Sites
    • Greenery Fundraiser
    • Litter Sweeps
    • The Mural on Cherry St.
    • Town Square Gardens
    • Willie Headley Award

January 2023

 The Black Mountain Beautification Committee is now accepting applications for the 2023 Seed  Money Award.   

Seed Money Award Process

About the Award

About the Award

About the Award

This award(s) will be given to an applicant or applicants who submit a gardening project that  best exemplifies the mission of the Beautification Committee: honoring the natural beauty of the  surrounding mountains while seeking to reflect that beauty on the streets and in the lives of  the citizens.  

Application

About the Award

About the Award

 The focus of the project must be gardening-related within Black Mountain and adding a little  something extra to our town. Gardening-related can have a broad interpretation. We  encourage you to use your imagination!  


Applications are available: 

On our website

Town Hall 

Black Mountain Library 

Black Mountain Visitors’ Center (Chamber of Commerce)

Black Mountain Beautification Committee Facebook page 

Deadline

About the Award

Deadline

The deadline for this application is March 13, 2023.  The award will not exceed $2500.  Generally, the total award amount is divided between several applications/projects. 


Proceeds for this award were raised at the Black Mountain Garden Show and Sale. If you have questions,  feel free to contact  Jean Chamberlain (614-203-9241).

2023 Seed Money Application

2023 Seed Money Award (pdf)

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2022 Award Winners & Completed Project Photos

Donald S. Collins Early Learning Center

Donald S. Collins Early Learning Center

Donald S. Collins Early Learning Center




The Center will be creating a rock and ornamental fence and adding a new raised bed. Children that attend the Center will help with the planting and maintenance  of the bed. 

Donald S. Collins Early Learning Center

Donald S. Collins Early Learning Center

 The Unitarian Congregation, in partnership with Eagle Scouts, will install a Little Free Library/Pantry with a garden surrounding it in front of the church. The Congregation will also be replanting a garden on both sides of the church’s welcome sign. 

Black Mountain Center for the Arts

Donald S. Collins Early Learning Center

Black Mountain Center for the Arts

 The Black Mountain Arts’ Center will be adding colorful planters to the rear exterior of the building and also planting a small shade garden under the stairwell. 

Lakeview Center at Lake Tomahawk

Thank You For Making Black Mountain Beautiful

Black Mountain Center for the Arts

 The Lakeview Center will revamp the large three-tiered planter adjacent to the center and facing Lake Tomahawk. The planter will contain mass plantings that will provide color and interest throughout the growing season.
  



   

Thank You For Making Black Mountain Beautiful

Thank You For Making Black Mountain Beautiful

Thank You For Making Black Mountain Beautiful

     

Award Recipients and Projects

Beginning 2013 to 2021

  • Swannanoa Valley Museum - garden in front for educational experience  
  • Julia Stout, a local artist - a garden at Town Hall (Julia is now deceased)  
  • Local book club - so they could plant milkweed  
  • 3rd Grade Elementary School Reading Class - created an outdoor reading area garden
  • Primary School - landscaping around school  
  • Owen High School - environmental landscaping around campus  
  • Black Mountain Home for Children - drip irrigation system for vegetable gardens  
  • Own Middle School - plantings for an Appalachian Heritage Garden  
  • Black Mountain Elementary School - adding a recycled garden section in the current garden
  • Adults and Students from Invisible Hands at Christ Community Church have plans to build a raised garden bed at Nana’s Place. 
  • Swannanoa Valley Museum and History Center - built a geological garden
  • The Curiosity Shoppe, upgrade garden
  • First Christian Church, install pollinator garden
  • Kate Shawgo, install community meadow garden 
  • Lakeview Center at Lake Tomahawk, installing new landscape
  • The Old Depot Association, installing east garden sites 
  • Black Mountain Center for the Arts, creating mosaic pots with flower power by entrance
  • Black Mountain Home for Children, creating gardens by Thrift Store 
  • Black Mountain Library will plant and care for a rose garden 
  • Skipped 2021 due to COVID

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