Recently I had the great opportunity to talk about starting a vegetable garden for another GMA related segment in New York. And specifically, they gave me plenty of opportunity to talk about doing it for under twenty-five dollars. They even devoted six whole minutes to tell the story. Believe me, that's a lot of time for a national television segment so I was thrilled about that.
So now that I have my handy little video camera, I thought it would be fun to take you along for a behind-the-scenes look at what goes on to get ready for one of these segments. In hindsight, I should have started documenting all the prep work well before leaving for New York. Many of the items on the table that you see in the pictures and video were carefully packed in my suitcase and taken right onto the set. I wanted to be sure we had everything I needed to talk about. The cake topper and pizza box, even the seed starting mix traveled with me from North Carolina. And just to be safe, I even had a pizza in NYC the night before the segment so I could be sure to have the right box on set.
If you want to see the entire segment as it appeared on ABC, click here.
I've already documented the outside garden reveal and I'll edit that piece next. Expect to see that video as the next post in a few more days. I hope you're enjoying these entries and if you have any questions or comments, please let me know by posting your comment below.
Awesome – would love to see more behind-the-scenes. I know your $25 V.G. plan is gonna inspire some really gardens to be born. Making a difference – it’s what it’s all about, right?
Keep up the hard work!
Shawna Coronado
Looks like fun Joe. And what have I been doin for fun you might ask? Writing about gardening. ;~)
Thanks James for your vote of confidence. I’m glad to have a platform that enables something good to come of it. I hope once things take off in the garden, we can really get some good traction out of this and encourage many more people to try it also.
JL
JOE! So awesome that you were there spreading the word. You are the ultimate advocate for the V garden.
Thanks for sharing the behind the scenes goodies.