Project Greenhouse

Amargeti village is beautiful as spring turns to summer. Cool enough to be pleasant still at three in the afternoon, it is quiet and peaceful up there where the grass is still green and the trees still blossom.

The old school was bursting with life on Sunday afternoon. The young crowd surrounded Lise on the wide staircase, covering canes with different colours of acrylic paint, and the seminar room hosted those that could be better trusted with craft knives: Project Greenhouse has begun.

After she saw the plans for construction of a greenhouse from recycled bottles, Doerte Ioannou, director of the Art & Wild Nature Foundation, decided that a greenhouse would be the 2010 project for the Foundation. Last year’s project – a playground (including climbing frame, bench, and pond) of recycled tyres weathered the winter beautifully, and provides a colourful backdrop to the

timber frame of the greenhouse-to-be.

Construction should take ten or twelve weeks, and workshops will be weekly. So if you want to be part of an exciting recycling project and spend your Saturday afternoons in a peaceful hill village, be sure to join us next week!

Turtle and Moon in the Community

Lise Constantinou Briggs, the driving force behind Turtle and Moon has been working her magic out in the wider community, involving children, inspiring parents and teachers, and decorating the bland surfaces of local schools.



Already well known and respected by the headteacher at Trimithousa Elementary School who seized the chance to paint a mural with the theme of water-saving on the school cistern, Lise was invited out to Pegeia Elementary to transform a blank concrete wall into a colourful ideal of respect and diversity.

Children, parents, and administrators participated in and enjoyed the projects, and Lise is hoping for more opportunities to work out in the community in the near future.