[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 AT 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
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 AT 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
Re: [Community_garden] community gardeners/business owners
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 - - 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 AT 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 __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6015 (20110404) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ___ 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