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Kitchen Garden Day is here

By geekgardener, on August 3rd, 2011

Greetings from geekgardener!

This post is very special for me and you all will know soon why it will be special to you all too. Most of you might be aware of the Kitchen Garden Day and the rest of you probably are surprised that there is one like that. I was excited when I came to know about it. I mean who wouldn’t. We have seen days earmarked for every single thing in the world and us gardeners deserve a day for ourselves. Don’t we?

 

Time for some facts now. Kitchen Garden Day was initiated by the Kitchen Gardeners International [http://kitchengardeners.org/] and since 2003, 4th Sunday of every August is celebrated as Kitchen Garden Day.  The happy guy with a trovel in one hand and a spoon in the other is the Mascot for KG Day. Kitchen gardeners Day Logo

KGI

 

We know we have a day for us all. But what do we do on that day? Think of this day as Friendship day for gardeners. What do friends do? They meet up!

That is exactly what we are gonna do. Meet up and discuss about gardening, exchange ideas, get to know fellow gardeners from your area. I mean… the list is endless.

Here are some ideas to get started:

  • Give a short tour of your garden to your fellow gardening friends
  • Setup a garden for someone who wants to start off
  • If you have a green thumb, you can also educate others on gardening by conducting a small workshop.
  • Discuss about various ideas and challenges with your gardening friends etc.

I am planning to host a small meet up in my place and conduct an event that is probably first of its kind in Bangalore. Any guesses?

As part of the KG Day celebration, I am planning to conduct a Seed Swap event on that day. I always wanted to conduct one and what better day can I get? I will reveal more on this event in the coming days.

SeedSwapFull

For folks staying in different states, try and find out if there is a group near you that is conducting Kitchen Garden Day. If you can find out, great!. If not, no problem, you can start one.Open-mouthed smile. Be the change you are looking for!

I am very positive that forums in this site can be used to brainstorm and organize such events across the states. In our forums, we have people from almost all parts of India and that is a great thing. I will be posting a list of contacts from different states who are volunteering such meet up. Check the forum post linked below in this blog for more info.

You know what will be fun?  Send me the group pictures of the meet up and a write up of what you did and how it was. I will post it here.

I sincerely request you all to get together and make this event a grand success. Let us make kitchen gardening,  a number one Hobby.

My thanks to Preeti of Urban Leaves India for introducing KGI and KG day to me. If you are in Mumbai, it is very difficult to not know her. http://www.urbanleavesinindia.com/

 

Are you guys with me in this?

GG

 

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Celebrating 100 posts

By geekgardener, on July 11th, 2011

100 posts

Please join me in celebrating 100 posts of this blog. Actually, Last post was my 100th post and I wanted to write about it then.But I felt this celebration deserved a special post by itself. One of the user pointed out to me that I am reaching my 100th post and even congratulated me in advance. Honestly I didn’t keep track until he told me :) .

Through these 100 posts, this blog helped me find tons of friends, inspire 1000s of people to start gardening and formed a very nice network of like-minded people. This site started out with a single aim of helping people who want to garden and will continue to be source of information for all gardeners out there, of course, with all your support and contribution. This site has grown to such an extent that today it receives several 1000 hits, 100s of emails per day compared to just a handful per month when I started it in Jan 2008.

Back  when I started this blog, I wasn’t sure if I will keep it updated regularly. I even thought it will be like one of those blogs that goes untouched after the first hello world post. I really thought. I was also thinking “who will read my blog”. Though I have been gardening since my early schooldays, blogging was quite new. But then thanks to the addictive hobby of gardening, I kept posting without even worrying if anyone is reading it. One day, I had visitors in my blog and I was so excited and few days later, more visitors. More appreciation started pouring and oh yeah! the questions too.  From then on, there was no looking back.

Today I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone one of you for all the contribution, feedback, comments and your curious questions. These are the things that really drive this website.  More problems and questions led to more solutions and answers.

I get lots of emails from people who  got inspired to start a garden because of this site. Reading such emails is such a pleasure and I am motivated to write more and more on topics that will motivate people to grow their own food.

With so much support from you all, who wouldn’t be motivated?

In this post, I also want to make an announcement. I am starting a Training program on Terrace gardening. It will be a one day program and is aimed at making terrace/kitchen gardening a lot easier for those who are starting out. More details follow soon.
EDIT: The training location will be at Bangalore at present.
Interested folks can register for the same by sending an email to Trainings with subject Training.

or Fill out this form

Like I mentioned in my previous post,the series of posts on Hydroponics is in progress and will be out soon.

Until next time, Hapy Gardening

Ciao

GG

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