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Update on the fruit tree orchard for Manderson

Take a look at this !

For those of you who don’t know yet, there is a group on the Rez called Sustainable Homestead Designs that is working on sustainable housing and food sovereignty for the Reservation. They built the first cob home in Manderson and are working to begin growing food this year. You can see it here on the .

They are working hard now to establish a fruit orchard for the community and have entered a competition to win a fruit orchard . The project with the most votes in the competition will win the orchard. To help find more votes they have created a cute widget. The widget tells their story… take a look. Just click the “Cute Widget” link above to check it out.

Note, voting for those who access the internet on a cell phone is limited 1. to people with smart phones (like an iphone) and 2. will only allow voting for the top 4 on the leaders board as the browser on a smart phone cannot scroll down to see the other contestants.

They need as many votes  as possible until May 31. Please follow their story and vote for their project if you like: http://naturalhomes.org/appeal.htm#orchard

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Grassroots Effort In Manderson

It only takes a minute of your time to register then vote at http://www.communitiestakeroot.com for Sustainable Homestead Designs in Manderson, South Dakota but it will have a lasting effect for a lifetime for the residents of the White Horse Creek/Manderson Community. Should they win this orchard the folks at Sustainable Homestead Desings will have the opportunity to show the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation that we can have a successful orchard on the Rez. Then work to expand into multiple orchards in our Region. By modeling a great orchard site the hope is to attract more foundation support to install orchards at the Wounded Knee District School, Wounded Knee Housing Playground as well  as in Wakpamni across from the CAP office. From there, maybe this will catch on and be something for our entire reservation at some point.

A minute of your time will go a long way for the kids!