Paige's Thoughts

Hey there everyone,

First I would like to thank you folks for following us along our path. We truly do hope that we have inspired some of you to create your very own garden. This started out as a sociology project for our introduction course at St. Thomas University, which soon turned into something bigger. I did not expect to have over 300 views on our blog, nor did I expect to see so many different countries represented in our viewers. For all those interested we have had viewers from Canada, the United States, Germany, Russia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Vietnam, Argentina, China and even the Czech Republic. I am truly in shock and awe at this.

Our group, like many people now-a-days keeps in touch via Facebook, keeping everyone up to date on what is going on, what needs to be sent to whom, and which of the two bloggers would be charged with the task of insuring the blog was updated each week. We had one person who was in charge of creating a promotional video, three information gathers, two members where admins for the public Facebook page, two people were in charge of creating posters and the final person was our group project manager.

Grow Food Not Lawns is an idea that sparked in Oregon and has since been heard the world over thanks to readers like you and the work that locale chapters have accomplished. With great gardening tips already out there it is easy to see how simple becoming somewhat self sustainable can be. Is it not better to know where your food is coming from? To have the health benefits of growing pesticide free fruits, vegetables and herbs. To grow as a family by planting even one garden bed or to grow as a community by starting a community garden or even sparking the neighbours attention and interest by you having a little garden of your own. The possibilities are endless and I hope you soon discover this for yourselves. Personally as it stands at the moment I do not have a garden, but trust me this summer I will be growing my own herbs on my deck and trying to grow my own vegetables as well. I do not have the greenest thumb but with these great tips located throughout the blog I am certain that even I can spread a little green on this planet. After all we only have one planet to live on and we better take care of it.

My name is Paige and I am the person who is in charge of the blog, the head blogger so to speak. There is also another person helping me out with the blog who you will hear from later on. It has been my job to insure that this blog gets updated on a regular bases, informing our readers what is going on, posting these tips and giving a hand to the other blogger. The layout and design of the blog is also my task, as I was the only one of the eleven of us who knew how to use blogger to begin with. Therefore it made logical sense to place me in charge of it. Three of the group members would send myself or the other blogger a weekly write up, video link or piece of interesting information to be included into the blog. It would be our job to post this information and also to find extra information, links and such to add into the blog. I also created two of the posters that are going to be spread around the city.