Green Legacy Guernsey works in partnership with the island's parishes and schools to provide environmental, social and economic benefits through allergy-friendly planting, and works to teach both adults and children about the value of plants.
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About Green Legacy Guernsey.
An Introduction
Our Mission Statement
GREEN LEGACY GUERNSEY
Making A Difference
To make a difference in 1 year, WE SOW SEEDS
To make a difference in 10 years, WE PLANT TREES
To make a difference in 100 years, WE EDUCATE
(Inspired by Kuan Tzu )
TOTAL OF FUNDS RAISED AS AT SEPTEMBER 2017 IS £27,352.23
Updated April 2017
Green Legacy Guernsey is proud to have the opportunity to support Vic and Jill Froome's Nature Reserve at Pleinmont Point as shown in the photograph below
Diverse mix of native shrubs which included 300 gorse which were planted by volunteers on a sunny Saturday morning in December 2014
OUR AIMS
Enabling - To work in partnership to enable each parish in Guernsey to strengthen the island's plant infrastructure by supplying free trees and promoting planting the right trees in the right places
SAFE Gardening - To give environmental, social and economic benefits to the Island through allergy-friendly planting.
Education - To educate adults and children at a basic level about the value of plants
Who We Are - Green Legacy Guernsey is the brainchild of Nigel Clarke, Proprietor of Queux Plant Centre which he founded in 1989. Nigel's interest in the natural environment led him to research the effect of plants on our health and well being.
Nigel attended a "Growing Schools" conference at the Botanical Garden in Birmingham in 2008. Whilst there, he read a Chinese proverb written by Kuan Tzu in 500 BC. He says that Kuan's words are symbolic of Queux's objectives since it began and these words have, thanks to the poet's foresight, formed Green Legacy Guernsey's Mission Statement. Nigel is confident that educating this generation will make a difference in 100 years time.
Green Legacy Guernsey was awarded the 2013 Insurance Corporation Best Conservation Project
ALLERGY - PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO VIEW RECENTLY PUBLISHED ARTICLE WRITTEN BY NIGEL CLARKE
http://greenfingers.buyshedsdirect.co.uk/nigel-clarke-allergy-gardening-guide/
click this link to visit Queux Plant Centre www.queuxplantcentre.com