Garden & Rewards

I first want to thank you all for the support but most of all for your patience. We're working getting the rewards out a fast as we can, so please continue to have patience with us. Just a little food for thought for you all, I just spoke with the land owner and we're getting everything finalized with that. Also I'm meeting with one of the community garden advisers Sunday about the installation of the garden. #EATING

Grants

With the help of Urban Green works we were able to apply for the FL Dept of Ag. & Consumer Services Community Garden Grant   This grant is to implement partnerships with local governments, school districts, food bands, and other public or private nonprofit organizations, for the development of community gardens to grow specialty crops in urban areas in Florida.  We are waiting to hear back if we got this grant, and it can be used for materials and instillation of our garden.

Garden & Rewards

Just to keep you all in the loop were talking with urban green works about the first steps of installing the garden and also printing rewards and trying our best to have them shipped off in the next few weeks.
I really want to thank the people on kick starter for believing in our vision and choosing to help fund our first growing season.

Kickstarter

We started our Kickstarter campaign last week.   So far we have over $15,000 which is more then a 1/3 of our goal.   We have had people email us from all over the world, letting us know that they support us.  Mgoblog forums has posted our link a lot and we are so appreciative of everyone that has been helping to spread the word so we can plant a garden.

One of the coolest things is that people are letting us know what they can do to help.  We have heard from gardeners, public officials, school teacher, bloggers, students, and all diferent types of people.  The one thing in common is everyone has shown us a lot of support and wants to offer what they can to help.  That's why we are proud to say we are University of Michigan alumni.  Together we make a difference and our Kickstarter is showing how we are coming together.

mgoblog store

We got an email from http://www.mgoblogstore.com/ telling us that they have an eatin' themed shirt.  They wanted to let us know it came to their attention that we are doing a similar thing.

We hope to inspire a positive difference.

A lot of people have asked to work with us and we want to accommodate everyone, but that is not always possible.  So right now we are figuring out a way to work with Mgoblog.

Initially, it was confusing because we didn't want it to seem like we were saying yes to some people, but no to others.  And we did not want our fans to be confused about the shirts.

So over the last week, we came up with the idea to have a specific project with mgoblogstore.

We suggested that we focus on uniting to have a project that has a technology focus.  One of the ideas we had was to see if we could work with some grade school students to enrich their technology skills.  Familiarity with technology is important in this day and age, and is a necessary skill in a competitive job market.

We are waiting to hear back from mgoblogstore.

New Video

Our new video is almost ready. We are very excited to share it. One thing that we wanted to do is set a positive example.  There are so many negative images on television, and so many "reality" shows that aren't reality.  So we want to give the youths a positive example to look up to.  

What would the world be like if people did not watch the families that fight on tv, and instead watched communities that worked together.  I think the world we be a lot better.

New styles and designs

We are doing some new designs and styles.  Right now we have had a lot of requests for tank tops (which are available locally in Florida) and v-necks.  We have a few new designs and we will release them in the fall.  We hope everyone likes them and continues to wear their support.  If you have an idea, email us.

Go Blue.