Like many (all?) small non-profits, finding ways to raise money in this particular economic climate is tricky. So, last fall, two of our devoted gardeners got together and made "A Troy Gardens Journal" -- 12 tracks of original music and spoken word CD for and about our favorite piece of land -- Troy Gardens in Madison, Wisconsin. They had a CD launch party on a cold Saturday night in January (up against a Packers game!) and it was standing room only in the coffeehouse.
>From the product description: "Troy Gardens inspires us. If we are writers, the gardens become our muse. If we are musicians, the land brings us new songs. The newly released CD, *Troy Gardens Journal*, contains spoken excerpts from Marge Pitts' collection of essays by the same name, enhanced by six original songs written and performed by Maury Smith, who also produced the project. The CD's 12 tracks mark the passage of the seasons at Troy Gardens, and cast a glance back to the project's organizational beginning. These stories and songs offer a nourishing taste of hope. In these times when "the big garden" that is our world seems to be bleak and getting bleaker, we celebrate the solace and strength found in relationships, in community, and in our "little gardens" at Troy." No way to know yet if it will actually raise much money, but what a delightful little product it is. While enduring what seems to be the longest, coldest and snowiest winter in southern Wisconsin in decades (and snowing yet again while I type), I've enjoyed snuggling into bed with this CD playing and dreaming of our gardening community and the growing season to come. Info and see jacket cover at http://friendsoftroygardens.org/trgajo.html Martha Worcester http://troygardens.org/ PS. Can I hope that all this cold is killing off some ticks? How about flea beetles and those striped cucumber guys?? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20080126/cbf2d5ff/attachment.html _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
