We’re happy to say that the enthusiasm for Easy Edibles has prompted us to do another, larger print run in time for spring gardening – thank you, everyone, for your support.
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A warm welcome to the new Alice Greene & Company website.
Local Food Summit in Ann Arbor
The second annual Local Food Summit doubled its attendance from last year. Most of the discussion in the morning focused on how to achieve the goal of 10% of local food purchase dollars going for the purchase of locally grown food. We were one of many local groups and companies with displays (and of course our beautiful new bookmarks).
In the afternoon, I went to the Faith and Food panel. I had heard that many congregations are growing food on their grounds (bye-bye lawns!) exclusively for donation to food banks. But I had no idea how big this trend is – there are more than a dozen churches in Ann Arbor growing food, and many more from all over Washtenaw County. There was a lot of good information for garden organizers.
Easy Edibles Out and About
We’re fortunate to have a community that is very supportive of local gardeners and local food, and that support seems to be growing all the time. Easy Edibles has been welcomed into many retail businesses in and around Ann Arbor. The main library purchased two copies immediately, and there was so much demand, they purchased 5 more. Now we are hearing from libraries in Dearborn, Muskegon and Milwaukee!
Bookmark for Easy Edibles
We asked Melanie to design a bookmark that we could use as a giveaway and we collected the first batch from the printer today. They look great!
New design for the website
Artist Melanie Boyle is designing a new Web site for Easy Edibles, incorporating the sensibility of her designs and illustrations for the book into the site. We love the colors she has chosen and the book theme of the homepage and we’re beginning the work of building the site. It might be a while before everything gets on to the (new) site, but you’ll be seeing some improvements immediately to the existing site.
Author Signing at Ten Thousand Villages
We were delighted to have a very successful author signing event for Easy Edibles with author Sheri Repucci at the Fair Trade store Ten Thousand Villages in Ann Arbor – not only did they generate extra revenue to support their mission, we also raised money for the local charity Edible Avalon. Edible Avalon helps tenants of Avalon Housing install vegetable gardens at their homes and apartments.
Easy Edibles now available
We are happy to announce the publication of our first book. Easy Edibles, will help the new, and not-so-new, gardener in the lower Great Lakes region, interested in growing their own organic food, to get the best out of their community garden or vegetable plot. Learn more …
