If you see community gardens as having a greater value than just fresh local produce, you can create a way for gardeners to share their talents, businesses, etc with each other. Maybe even the willingness to pass this on, not with the message that you are endorsing anything, but just as a way of helping your community members communicate with each other. i've seen newsletters where there is a small section listing services, businesses, etc. that are helpful to everyone with no specific endorsement.
> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 11:17:13 -0400 > From: eapo...@ag.ncat.edu > To: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org > Subject: [Community_garden] community gardeners/business owners > > Let's say there is a community gardener who is also an entrepreneur > that runs a food/nutrition related business. This person naturally wants to > share information about their business and classes they offer with the other > gardeners. Should the garden coordinator circulate this information for the > entreprenuer? Or should this person send it out themself? Is this even > appropriate? > > --- In our case this rural garden is managed by a parttime coordinator who > plans meetings and sends out all garden related information. Through our > project we're trying to help participants increase their knowledge of > nutrition, so this information about food/nutrition classes is very relevant > and useful from our perspective. But I also want to be careful about not > promoting specific interests/businesses. --- > > Thoughts? > -- > Lisa Poser > CYFAR Community Garden Project Coordinator > Extension Associate > NC Cooperative Extension > NC A&T State University > PO Box 21928 > Greensboro, NC 27420 > eapo...@ncat.edu > 336.285.4622 (phone) > www.nccommunitygardens.blogspot.com > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20110405/981fc671/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's > services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out > how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org > > To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: > http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20110405/667be0e1/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
