7 Feb 2012
GWA REGION 1 MEETING
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GARDEN WRITERS COME TOGETHER
Garden Writers from around New England gathered today for the annual meeting
Region 1 Director in Attendance: C.L. Fornari
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GWA WORKSHOP
Boston February 3, 2012
Mary-Kate Mackey
PITCH PERFECT
What you need to sell your project
Excellent Presentation by Mary-Kate, she presents things in a way that make it easy to understand. An outstanding speaker that mixes right in with the audience and keeps things interesting. The workshop included a lot of inter reaction between the participants and the speaker making it a pleasure being here.
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- C.L. Organizing
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- Mary-Kate chatting with a garden writer.
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- Creatures from PRIDES CORNER FARM arrived bring some sample Donations and injecting a little fun and entertainment into the meeting.
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- Its time for coffee and some more socializing.
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- BACK TO BUSINESS
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- Raffle time, winners picking up Roses.
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- Grow Bags full of other samples for everyone.
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- Free Plants for everyone.
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- OK Workshop is over time to collect the goodies.
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- Packing everything up for the trip home.
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All those attending are saying thank you to Mary-Kate for the excellent presentation and to C.L. for the great job of organizing and running the meeting.
All the Garden Writers, C.L. and Mary-Kate thanking the following supporters for their donations making this meeting possible.
Generous Donations from :
Gardeners Supply Company gardeners.com
Prides Corner Farm pridescorner.com
Sample Donations by:
Black Gold Organic potting soils. blackgold.bz
Droll Yankee – Made by American Hands. drollyankees.com
High Mowing Organic Seeds. highmowingseeds.com
Jeremie Miniature/fairy gardening supplies jeremiecorp.com
The Environmental Factor Inc. Organic Lawn in a Box environmentalfactor.com
Espoma Bio-tone Starter Fertilizer espoma.com
Natural Industries Actinovate organic fungicide naturalindustries.com
Pleasant View Gardens/Spring Meadow Nurseries******************************* Proven Winners and Color Choice Plants – annuals/shrub/perennials***************** ************************provenwinners.com*******colorchoiceplants.com
Plants Nouveau New and unusual plants plantsnouveau.com
Smart Pots – Alternatives in Container growing smartpots.com
Storey Publishing – Gardening Books (BOOKS!) story.com
Wildflower Farm’s Eco Lawn wildflower.com
That’s it see you all next year.
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John, That was a great meeting, wasn’t it? I enjoyed working on the writing exercises with you and getting to know you a bit better.
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jwlw Reply:
March 7th, 2012 at 6:35 pm
HI Debbie: It was a great meeting and I enjoyed meeting you. First time at a GWA Meeting for me, so it was all interesting. Its funny that a few days after the meeting I started to put a few names and faces together with their blogs, turned out I knew quite a few of the people there. Thanks for visiting my blog, come back any time you are always welcome.
Have a great evening,
John
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Debbie/GardenofPossibilities
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