We found ourselves deluged with "can you pass this on?" type requests. Our
solution was to have one or two free "classified ads" emails per season
where people could announce anything they have to offer, primarily items or
services for sale. That way you are not promoting just one person, but the
entire community's interests. And our members are curious about each other
and like to know what other people do.
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest, Durango CO
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Hunsberger" <karenhunsber...@msn.com>
To: <eapo...@ag.ncat.edu>; <community_garden@list.communitygarden.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] community gardeners/business owners
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
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