What Grows On in Rhode Island News

Backyard & Container Gardening Workshops ~ June 11 & 29, 2011

As part of its mission to enable Providence residents to grow more of their own food, Southside Community Land Trust invites the public to attend two free Plant Providence workshops this month. “Affordable Backyard Gardening” will be offered Saturday, June 11th from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. in the backyard of a home at 563 Public St.; “Container Gardening” will take place Wednesday, June 29th from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. at 9 Hammond St. on the city’s west side. Both workshops will be taught by experienced gardeners and/or Community Land Trust staff and will give people the confidence and basic information they need to get started gardening on a small scale.
 
“Affordable Backyard Gardening” is aimed at homeowners in Providence who have available space in front of or behind their houses that could be used as a garden. Growing your own food is already a big cost savings, but this workshop will show people how to do so even more efficiently and provide tips on where they can find inexpensive materials. For those who do not have yards, or those who rent, the “Container Gardening” workshop will illustrate the ways that it is still possible to grow herbs and even vegetables in pots, hanging baskets, and other containers placed on balconies or in windows.
 

Is Your Earth/Arbor Day Event in What Grows On in Rhode Island?

What Grows On in Rhode Island has compiled the most comprehensive online Earth Day calendar for Rhode Island in 2011, with dozens of cleanups, celebrations, films, nature/outdoor activities, and tree plantings, but it is not complete. IS YOUR EVENT LISTED?

WHY ADD YOUR EVENT TO WHAT GROWS ON IN RHODE ISLAND?

• Hundreds of people see this calendar.
• Events listed here show up on ecoRI and several other websites automatically.
• What Grows On in RI email newsletter reaches more than one thousand interested Rhode Islanders.
• Events listed in the Earth Day/Arbor Day Calendar will be on twitter @provgardener and on Facebook.com/whatgrowsonri
• Listings are free and indexed for easy searching.
• The calendar is being widely promoted this month, giving your event more visibility.
• Show the world how many Rhode Islanders care about our state.
• The sum is greater than the parts.

CHECK TO SEE IF YOUR ORGANIZATION's EARTH DAY EVENTS ARE LISTED HERE. Sort by your town or organization to see if your events are listed. (The indexing may not be complete for organization, but the indexing by town/city is complete.)
http://www.whatgrowsonri.com/earth_day_arbor_day.html

N.B.: CHECK FIRST BEFORE ADDING! A couple of events have been added three times. Send me updates and corrections and I'll fix existing records.

IF YOUR EVENT IS MISSING, PLEASE ADD YOUR FREE LISTING HERE:
http://www.whatgrowsonri.com/add_event.html

It only takes a couple of minutes to fill out this form, and many hundreds of Rhode Islanders will notice your event if it is in the calendar. Many hands make light work! At the moment, I am the entire staff maintaining this calendar!

With the huge number of events to be listed at this time of year, it is important for each group to add their own events. If you just send an email to me and ask me to add a new event, I may not have time to add it. I will correct existing listings, though. If there are errors in current listings please let me know. skorte@providentialgardener.com.

Please forward this post to others who may be interested or better able to add their events to the RI EARTH DAY CALENDAR.

Thank you for what you are doing for Rhode Island's environment!

Cheers,

Sue Korté, Managing Editor
What Grows On in Rhode Island

How to Publicize Your Environmental Events

What Grows On in Rhode Island Calendar is the most complete listing of environmental events in the state. Audubon activities, Eco Depots, the Farmers' Markets, Appalachian Mountain Club outings, public meetings that have to do with the environment, cleanups, classes and workshops are searchable and sortable in a nifty calendar format. Hundreds of Rhode Islanders check it out regularly. See What's Listed in "What Grows On in Rhode Island"? for details.

If you are an event planner, it's FREE, EASY and BEST to add your own meeting notice through the ADD YOUR EVENT form. That way you'll be sure your event will be listed, and it will be worded as you want it. We receive so many meeting notices and/or press releases, brochures, and email newsletters that we simply can't always get around to entering them all. We'd really like your event(s) listed so please use the Add Your Event form, which has more details.

What Grows On in Rhode Island ~ One-Stop Shop for Environmental Activities & News

What Grows On in Rhode Island includes every sort of environment-related event taking place in and for Rhode Island. What Grows On lists hundreds of events, from public meetings to toddler activities, outdoor fun to semester courses, practical workshops to professional meetings. I spend hours each week pulling all this stuff together into one place so you can find out what's "growing on" around here in a couple of minutes.

Every Rhode Islander will find something interesting, but no one will want to see everything. So the Calendar is highly indexed by town, audience, category, and event type, enabling you to zoom in on what interests you the most. Don't forget to use the keyword search.

The Weekly Update Newsletter has highlights from the News Blog, which includes press releases and announcements. You'll see ProvGardener Twitter updates in the right column of the News Blog. These updates include posts to the What Grows On in RI News Blog PLUS news directly from dozens of other RI environmental groups, such as ecoRI, edible RHODY, Digging Rhode Island and Conservation Law Foundation. So much is going on.... What Grows On is working on ways to make it easier to be well informed about Rhode Island's environment.

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For your convenience, here are links to popular segments of the Calendar, plus this weekend's highlights.

Find something you'd enjoy, and go do it! ~ Sue Korté, Managing Editor

Providential Gardener Info Hints ~ Daily Email Summaries from What Grows On in RI Calendar

One way to keep up with What Grows On in Rhode Island is to subscribe to the daily email service. 

At the top of the Calendar [just left of ICAL] Click on SUBSCRIBE.

 Next you'll see this screen:

Choose how you want to subscribe to the Calendar. If you want to get a daily email, this is what you'll see. The daily email gives you that day's and the next day's events, plus it flags new and updated events for you. Click on the event titles to get the full description.

Easy as pie! Now you'll be in the Know! Open, scan, add what you want to your own electonic calendar, delete, and go out there!