After 21 years of transformative business and honoring the beloved Ladybug in our logo, we have spent this past year in a deeply creative and reflective process of rebranding and refining our services in order to present you with the most elevated reflection of our gifts and talents. We selected the Pawpaw tree and this Art Expression to represent us for many reasons. The Pawpaw Tree, Ha'siminikiisfwa (Shawnee word literally meaning Pawpaw moon) or Asimina triloba (Scientific name), is the official native state fruit of Ohio, and considered the largest edible fruit in the United States. If you’ve never eaten a Pawpaw fruit, we encourage you to do so, the taste is something similar to banana, mango and apricots mixed together with a custard texture. While the fruit is the most familiar and delighted in, we find pleasure appreciating the more dynamic and understated elements that make this Tree such an important community member. 

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In our new logo, we’ve incorporated Pawpaw's foliage, flower, fruit and its most popular and possibly oldest relation, the Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly, to highlight and center resilience through reciprocity or symbiotic relationships. It is certainly fitting for the times, when the Earth is requiring we all step into this accelerated level of responsibility together for our species and home to survive the Anthropocene. Local artist Breanna King, with Zeal40, was so inspired that she was led to find a wild Pawpaw for her first time and created a print using the leaf of the tree she bonded with. We were thrilled for our digital design to embody the real Essence of the tree and created a Trinity Flower with the leaves to express the growing seasons and the 3-fold nature of Spirit in Creation. The Trinity is also an element of the flower, showcasing 2 nested sets of 3 petals (6 total).  

 

We are passionate about planting edible, medicinal and native plants, while supporting populations like the Zebra Swallowtail, Monarchs, Honey Bees and other keystone pollinator species, as well as supporting families living in food deserts or food apartheid. Our collective work with homeowners, schools and non-profits aims to bridge Humanity with Nature through co-creating biodiverse sanctuaries that heal our connection with Land.  We respond to the innate rhythms of the Ecosystem while respectfully adopting Ancient Traditional technologies passed down from our families and other Black, Indigenous and Peoples of Color from around the world. These include composting/soil building, bio-diverse perennial plantings/intercropping, water protection and more.