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In This Issue: Garden Shop Opening SFG Translations Mel teams up with Patti the Garden Girl Looking for Volunteers in Orange County, CA Greetings! Welcome to a New Year with Square Foot Gardening! SFG is a great way to acheive some New Years' resolutions like... Save Money, Save Time, Live Healthier, Loose Weight, and Help the Environment. Join us in making this the best year ever for all of us. New Monthly video with Patti the Garden Girl Last August, we were in Chicago at the Independent Nursery convention and met a young couple from Boston who are making great in-roads with urban gardening particularly the generation X and Y ages. We have talked with Patti "The Garden Girl" and her husband Rob who is a professor of Video at a local college and decided that our missions to have more people start SquareFootGardens was so similar that we should join forces and support each other. This started last November in Boston when Mel went to visit them at their garden right in the center of Boston. Chickens, rabbits, and goats included. We decided to make a monthly Video Blog together on what to do this month around the country. Of course it had to be fairly general but will convey some valuable insights and information from both parties to the gardening public. The January Blog is being posted on our website or visit this link directly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0slYomAJNQE When you watch the video, please do us a favor and respond to the show by clicking on the stars just below the video to rate it a 5 Star Video, add it your favorites in youtube, forward it to all your friends and family, and post impression or comments. What this does is help the search engines recognize the number of viewings and takes notice if they are high, which will then improve our Google search, enabling more people to find our Square Foot Gardening website. Of course you could also just call up or e-mail all your friends to send them to our website: www.squarefootgardening.com __________________________________________________________________________________ GARDEN SHOP OPENING! The Garden Shop has been closed for the season but will be re-opened on February 16th. We expect this year to have even more and better selections for garden boxes and other gardening needs. We will send you a link in the Feb newsletter so you can preview before the general public and have first choice of all the products to order. __________________________________________________________________________________ TRANSLATION INTO OTHER LANGUAGES Sprechen Sie Deutsch? ¿Habla Español? In the past, several volunteers around the world have helped translate our Home page, What is, and How to page into a different languages. You can find the list by going to our homepage www.squarefootgardening.com If you can read any of the languages or have friends in other parts of the world who could, please send them the link and ask them to proof-read what we have posted. Check out the Russian one, it's really cool looking. We are always interested in making any corrections or updating any information so we are looking for volunteers to translate our website into any other languages. __________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for volunteers in Orange County, CA Orange County California We have several new projects either happening or waiting to happen around OrangeCounty and we are looking for those of you that are willing to volunteer some time to get these projects going. It could be anywhere from helping to establish contacts to organizing an event, construction of a new display garden or just being a good helper for whoever is in charge of that event. They include: * A SFG display garden at the Orange County Fair Grounds * A new proposed display garden at the * Children's Science Center in Santa Anna * A talk and display garden at the Kellogg Heritage House * A potential involvement with Roger's Gardens * Sit down/stand up gardens at several Nursing homes * Helping a group from the Saddle Back Church who are going to orphanages in Africa * Enlisting members of the Crystal Cathedral Church to become more involved with humanitarian projects * Creating fund-raising centers for churches and civic groups distributing the SFG book and products * Putting together a team to locate ingredients and having Mel's Mix bagged and distributed throughout Orange County If you are interesting in any of these projects please send us your name, phone #, mailing address, and how you would like to be involved. Please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it We would like to thank all of you for your orders, support, donations, emails, and efforts this last year. As Square Foot Gardening spreads throughout the world, we can help make the world a better place. Together we really can make a difference (as all of you with a Square Foot Garden already know). Sincerely, Mel Bartholomew, Founder and President Square Foot Gardening Foudnation |
