http://bggarden.com/blog BGgarden : Creative Living & Growing in the Heartland Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:56:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Copyright © The BGgarden Blog 2011 ohgarden@gmail.com (Bren Haas of BGgarden.com) ohgarden@gmail.com (Bren Haas of BGgarden.com) gardening, new media 1440 http://bggarden.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/PodwidgetAd1.jpg http://bggarden.com/blog 144 144 http://bggarden.com/blog/?feed=podcast Thoughts and Ideas of a Midwest Gardener : excited to share the world of gardening from my neck of the woods. I grow year-round in Ohio and I'm excited to share the experience and who I met along the way with you. With a background in the Fine Arts, Brenda continues to express her love for gardening through her blog and photography. Midwest born and raised this Ohio native created the BGgarden.com website with aspirations of sharing her experience with others. The creative plan of documenting the healthy and colorful environment in her family's home and garden for the past 3 years has been a constant thread of sharing life in the garden. Through her photography she has been able to capture moments, edit and display them on the web. Brenda specializes in capturing the world of gardening on location at various garden events—industry shows, conferences, flower and garden shows. On the country property that she shares with her and her husbands and two children in Ohio she manages to find time to document what is involved with growing year-round in her 10’x12’ greenhouse. In the seven months she has worked independently in social media networking #gardenchat. This Twitter based forum covers all aspects of gardening. Brenda has organized a hot guest host list that includes best selling authors, garden product developers, landscape and garden designers, garden celebrities. She has also used the forum to promote and create a buz about garden events and shows. Her goal with this networking project is to educate and bring current gardening trends to the masses through social media. Potential Reach: Brenda's' goal is networking the garden industry through podcasting, demonstration videos on Youtube.com, and various forms of social media. She also sees herself producing creative slide or power-point presentations for garden centers and industry leaders, assisting with webpage design, and introducing others to worlds of Twitter and Facebook. Niche: Brenda likes to grow, maintain, harvest and preserve food from a 2400 sq/ft traditional vegetable garden. She has various gardens through out her country property that included shade/ woodland gardens and developing herbaceous borders in full sun. Deciduous woody shrubs are gaining interest with to provide bloom and interest on the property. Future goals with her own gardens is to build a larger scale greenhouse to she can propagate, seed, grow, and cultivate plants to beautify her 16+ acres. bggarden, gardening, authors, food, recipes, how-to, #gardenchat Bren Haas of BGgarden.com Bren Haas of BGgarden.com ohgarden@gmail.com no no http://bggarden.com/blog/2012/02/01/wow-wednesday/ http://bggarden.com/blog/2012/02/01/wow-wednesday/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:56:26 +0000 Bren http://bggarden.com/blog/?p=5416 http://bggarden.com/blog/2012/02/01/wow-wednesday/feed/ 3 http://bggarden.com/blog/2012/01/28/flickr-new-stuff/ http://bggarden.com/blog/2012/01/28/flickr-new-stuff/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:10:29 +0000 Bren http://bggarden.com/blog/?p=5395 http://bggarden.com/blog/2012/01/28/flickr-new-stuff/feed/ 1 http://bggarden.com/blog/2012/01/24/whats-2012-costa-farms-trial-garden/ http://bggarden.com/blog/2012/01/24/whats-2012-costa-farms-trial-garden/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:21:21 +0000 Bren http://bggarden.com/blog/?p=5391 http://bggarden.com/blog/2012/01/24/whats-2012-costa-farms-trial-garden/feed/ 2 http://bggarden.com/blog/2012/01/22/ready-sow-seeds/ http://bggarden.com/blog/2012/01/22/ready-sow-seeds/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:10:19 +0000 Bren http://bggarden.com/blog/?p=5387 http://bggarden.com/blog/2012/01/22/ready-sow-seeds/feed/ 2 http://bggarden.com/blog/2012/01/14/yellows/ http://bggarden.com/blog/2012/01/14/yellows/#comments Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:11:07 +0000 Bren http://bggarden.com/blog/?p=5382 http://bggarden.com/blog/2012/01/14/yellows/feed/ 3 http://bggarden.com/blog/2012/01/13/floral-symphony-nwfgs/ http://bggarden.com/blog/2012/01/13/floral-symphony-nwfgs/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:10:18 +0000 Bren http://bggarden.com/blog/?p=5363 http://bggarden.com/blog/2012/01/13/floral-symphony-nwfgs/feed/ 10 0:21:40 While much of the country has white mulch covering their gardens, Janet Endsley and her crew work hard moving the soil indoors to inspire the Northwest with A  Floral Symphony.  The Northwest Flower and Garden Show is a five day spectacular event fi[...] While much of the country has white mulch covering their gardens, Janet Endsley and her crew work hard moving the soil indoors to inspire the Northwest with A  Floral Symphony.  The Northwest Flower and Garden Show is a five day spectacular event filled with one of a kind garden art, music and of course garden displays designed by award winning artist. I had the privileged of speaking with Janet the other day on the phone and I”m thrilled to share our conversation about the show via a podcast attached to this blog post.  In this presentation you will get a better understanding of what it takes to put together an amazing show like this Seattle event as well as find out some fun gardening facts about Janet. One click over to The Northwest Flower and Garden Show website and you will quickly see that talented writer Janet truly loves her job.  The website is a ‘cyber flower event’ itself, filled with show facts as well as valuable gardening information. Click Image Above To Visit NWFGS Site Mark your calendar for Monday, January 16 for  when Janet Endsley @NWFGS   will be our guest host on #gardenchat .  She will be sharing current show information as well answering any questions you may have about this garden show.  Even if you can’t make it all the way to Seattle for this event in February it is inspiring to  follow along using social media.  The designs, speakers, market place and  other garden related events being shared Feb. 8-12 from the show will get you in the garden. podcast Bren Haas of BGgarden.com no no