With Christmas behind us, I’m ready to move on. We can shelve the standard holiday topics for a while: forcing bulbs, turning poinsettias red again, taking care of live Christmas trees and which is greener…real or artificial trees? I’ve written about all of these at least once including some within the past few weeks. Even the topic of which Christmas tree is more eco-friendly was a popular topic. I certainly weighed in on this one with podcast interviews, articles and blog posts. I even saw a YouTube video on it. It’s interesting to note that we must be making some progress on the environmental front since this was a topic I had not seen until recently.
Now it’s on to topics such as how to buy seeds from a catalog and starting them indoors for an early start to your spring garden. Don’t get me wrong. Although I say this with a tad of sarcasm, when you’ve been writing gardening articles for a long time, you’re looking for new material. Yet in the dead of winter, there’s only so much timely material on gardening.
So for me, in 2009 and beyond, I’ll look to push the envelope with this blog and in my other forums as a gardening communicator. There is no shortage of how-to articles out there on any subject you can imagine, especially gardening. It’s time to add a new dimension. There’s a lot more to gardening than how to dig the proper hole or when to prune your azaleas. In the light of a shrinking media platform that is devoting the airways and print space to the virtues of gardening, we’ll do it here in the blogosphere and elsewhere on the World Wide Web. I’m excited about being a part of where you come to stay in touch and in the know.
Thank you for your past and continued support and I welcome your comments on what you’d like to see get more coverage in the upcoming months. Cheers.
JL
About Joe Lamp'l
Joe Lamp'l is the Host and Executive Producer of the award winning PBS television series Growing A Greener World. Off camera, Joe dedicates his time to promoting sustainability through his popular books, blog, podcast series, and nationally syndicated newspaper columns. Follow Joe on Twitter
Well Shane and TC, that makes at least three of us on the same page about providing gardening content in fresh ways and in the hands of true gardeners…where it should be. I’m disappointed that we are experiencing less coverage of gardening through traditional sources but I’m encouraged to use this opportunity to deliver such an important message to our colleagues in an unrestricted way. I look forward to this new era as a gardening communicator and so should anyone who loves gardening. I believe we’ll all have more opportunities to receive information in more ways than ever before. our biggest challenge as the consumers of this information will be how to filter it all. Not a bad problem to have in my opinion.
Thanks for your input guys.
JL
Joe, we must be on a mission. For some time I’ve been thinking along the same lines, which is one of the reasons I decided to jump into the blogosphere. I’m dedicated to turning over some new stones in garden writing as I truly believe that gardeners are searching for some fresh voices. Another article on 30 varieties of Japanese Maples will always have its place, sure. However, the internet gives people like us a forum to discuss not just technique but the passionate reasons why we garden in the first place.
Sounds like you and me got a lot of the same stuff on our minds Joe!
See ya out “there!”