$1,000 Grant Award Will Make Beautiful Music

Southern Virginia Botanical Garden, in Halifax County, will receive a grant award of $1000 for its Community Beautification project.  We’ll continue to announce one award each day during the month of June.

The Southern Virginia (SOVA) Botanical Garden provides a range of services to the community.  The Gardens include a Native American Garden, Children’s Teaching Garden, Butterfly Garden and Healthy Harvest Community Garden. The Botanical Garden provides internship opportunities and educational programs for students, as well as distributing produce from the garden to community members in need.

The SOVA Botanical Gardens will use funds from their Green Grant award to create a Music Garden.  Studies show that music is therapeutic and improves overall emotional health.  Instruments to be created and installed include a metal xylophone made with recycled metal, a PVC pipe outdoor music wall, and a metal Drum Tree from recycled materials.  Through this project, the Southern Virginia Botanical gardens can improve the health of residents and further become a safe community gathering space.

Every year, government, non-profit, civic and service organizations in Virginia were invited to apply for grants for $500 to $1,000 describing how they plan to tackle an environmental concern in their community regarding Litter Prevention, Recycling, Cigarette Litter Prevention, or Community Beautification.  Since 2011, Keep Virginia Beautiful has provided $254,500 for 320 different environmental programs and projects all across the Commonwealth, due to the generosity of their partnership with Altria, as well as additional support from Coca-Cola, WestRock and Keep America Beautiful.