Attention for Orchard Gardens
Prestigious Awards for Orchard Gardens

Home Depot Foundation – 2006 Award of Excellence for Affordable      Housing Built Responsibly in Rental Housing Category - identifies,      recognizes and showcases the outstanding and innovative      work of nonprofit housing development corporations engaged      in green building/healthy home construction and rehabilitation.
Montana Contractors Association – 2005 Environmental Excellence      Award - Environmental Excellence & Special Recognition in Waste      Management Category
Sustainable Business Council – 2006 Sustainable New Venture of the      Year
Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition – 2006 Charles L Edson Tax      Credit Excellence Honorable Mention Award 
Orton Family Foundation – 2006 Inaugural PLACEMATTERS Innovator      in Place Award - recognizes an individual or organization whose      hard work and innovative application of ideas, methods or tools      have opened new pathways to vibrant and sustainable      communities.
2007 AIA Montana Merit Award

2007 AIA "Show Your Green" Award

Media Attention for Orchard Gardens

"Show You're Green Awards Go to Eight Sustainable--and    Affordable--Projects," by American Institute of Architects,    website, 2007.
"Housing development boosts the bottom line of families and      community," by Daniel S. Morrison, Fine Homebuilding, pp.      18-20, no. 184, reprinted with permission, © 2006 from The      Taunton Press, Inc.
 "Green Building" from Affordable Housing Finance, March 2006. "Green Building Techniques: Materials" in Rural Voices, fall 2005.
"The `Green' Answer to Low-Income Housing," by Trisha Swindle,      Geo Outlook, vol.3, no.1, 2006.
"Home grown: homeWord's Orchard Gardens blossoms," by Jessie      McQuillan, Missoula Independent, Jul 14-21, 2005: 10.
"Green living: Project provides cool housing for low-income families      while being Earth-friendly," by Vince Devlin, The Missoulian,      Dec. 19, 2005.   

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