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Permalink Reply by Deanna Alejo on April 22, 2009 at 11:48am

i agree checked out the site and it's pretty neat

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Permalink Reply by Rachel Carpenter on July 22, 2009 at 10:22pm

You might want to see what you can also do with more established sites like the Fresno/Clovis FreeCycle and Yard sale sites to get some buzz going for yours.

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Permalink Reply by slackergeek on July 22, 2009 at 10:33pm

I love this idea, it kind of reminds me of the movie, "The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil". A really inspiring movie.

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Permalink Reply by Rachel Carpenter on July 25, 2009 at 5:14am

Thought of another way to tie into existing networks... The meet-up and yahoo vegetarian, cooking, wine tasting groups in Fresno & Clovis... I'm sure they would have an interest... I'm guessing there has already been an attempt to connect with the gardening groups...

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Permalink Reply by Rachel Carpenter on July 25, 2009 at 5:49am

I went to the site and signed up.. I noticed there is no invitation process to invite friends or to post on social network pages... could be why it's not spreading like wildfire! Also did a search and nothing was listed within 50 miles of my zip... another reason it probably isn't catching on fire. I know that with the established sites like FreeCycle, that there is a list of rules that are required and also an area that people can post habitual no shows, so there are quite a few things the site needs in order for people to begin to feel safe to share and trade.

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Permalink Reply by Victor Ramayrat on July 27, 2009 at 11:59am

What if we create a grassroots group here in GreenFresno just to see if there's enough interest in the community. Then I'll help with marketing the group so people could sign up. Care to create the workflow or logistics?

Victor

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Permalink Reply by Raven Cuevas on July 27, 2009 at 3:07pm

well, for that to work, it might be a good idea to make greenfresno a bit bigger with a membership drive. I don't know if we have tapped the co-housing project over on north Fresno. I will be working with some of the residence to create a sustainable garden there.
there is also plans in the works to create a "homeless garden" (looking for a better name) land is to be donated and a garden is to be set up for growing of food to feed the homeless.
I would like to get involved with the higher ups of this site to perhaps get some cross organization help. I work for the student ran organic farm at Fresno State.
It would be nice to have a Local site set up for trading, seeing as how most of the traffic on veggietrader is nowhere near here.

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Permalink Reply by Tom Cotter on August 7, 2009 at 10:31am

Rachael, if you have not done so already, please feel free to invite your friends to Green Fresno on the 'invite' link in the upper right menu. We are working to build membership and participation so that more people can benefit from this type of information.

Tom

Raven Cuevas said:

well, for that to work, it might be a good idea to make greenfresno a bit bigger with a membership drive. I don't know if we have tapped the co-housing project over on north Fresno. I will be working with some of the residence to create a sustainable garden there.
there is also plans in the works to create a "homeless garden" (looking for a better name) land is to be donated and a garden is to be set up for growing of food to feed the homeless.
I would like to get involved with the higher ups of this site to perhaps get some cross organization help. I work for the student ran organic farm at Fresno State.
It would be nice to have a Local site set up for trading, seeing as how most of the traffic on veggietrader is nowhere near here.

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Permalink Reply by Rachel Carpenter on October 14, 2009 at 11:22am

Tom,

I've tried to use the invitation with my address books in AOL, but it keeps telling me there are no addresses in my address book. I have a huge list of media contacts in my address book, so I do know there are addresses in there.

Rachel

Tom Cotter said:

Rachael, if you have not done so already, please feel free to invite your friends to Green Fresno on the 'invite' link in the upper right menu. We are working to build membership and participation so that more people can benefit from this type of information.

Tom

Raven Cuevas said:

well, for that to work, it might be a good idea to make greenfresno a bit bigger with a membership drive. I don't know if we have tapped the co-housing project over on north Fresno. I will be working with some of the residence to create a sustainable garden there.
there is also plans in the works to create a "homeless garden" (looking for a better name) land is to be donated and a garden is to be set up for growing of food to feed the homeless.
I would like to get involved with the higher ups of this site to perhaps get some cross organization help. I work for the student ran organic farm at Fresno State.
It would be nice to have a Local site set up for trading, seeing as how most of the traffic on veggietrader is nowhere near here.

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Permalink Reply by Rachel Carpenter on October 14, 2009 at 11:34am

Tom,

At every meeting I go to I tell everyone about GreenFresno and what a bang up job you've done in building the website. I would love for you to attend some of the meetings if you are able to. Specifically the Building Healthy Neighborhoods and Community Garden Steering Committee meetings. One of the latest projects the Steering Committee is working on is to map the current community gardens. I took a workshop on using Google's GPS mapping capabilities to map locations for Community Projects... I think the community gardens would be a great way to put into practice what I learned. It would also make it the information available to anyone who Googled it.

I love how this site's format is interactive and so "alive" with information. Richard from Metro said they could add a page for community garden information to Metro's site, but I think, with all the changes, GreenFresno would be a much better forum allowing anyone to add information on their garden, instead of needing to submit the information and then waiting for a webmater to update

Any chance you can "tap" into Google's GPS capabilities from GreenFresno? Just curious!

Rachel

Rachel Carpenter said:

Tom,

I've tried to use the invitation with my address books in AOL, but it keeps telling me there are no addresses in my address book. I have a huge list of media contacts in my address book, so I do know there are addresses in there.

Rachel

Tom Cotter said:

Rachael, if you have not done so already, please feel free to invite your friends to Green Fresno on the 'invite' link in the upper right menu. We are working to build membership and participation so that more people can benefit from this type of information.

Tom

Raven Cuevas said:

well, for that to work, it might be a good idea to make greenfresno a bit bigger with a membership drive. I don't know if we have tapped the co-housing project over on north Fresno. I will be working with some of the residence to create a sustainable garden there.
there is also plans in the works to create a "homeless garden" (looking for a better name) land is to be donated and a garden is to be set up for growing of food to feed the homeless.
I would like to get involved with the higher ups of this site to perhaps get some cross organization help. I work for the student ran organic farm at Fresno State.
It would be nice to have a Local site set up for trading, seeing as how most of the traffic on veggietrader is nowhere near here.

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Permalink Reply by Ray Sage Warner on November 27, 2009 at 5:04pm

This sounds like a great idea.

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Permalink Reply by Kaytea Petro on December 15, 2009 at 10:45am

Hi there! I've been following your thread with interest, and I wanted to suggest another service. It's called Neighborhood Fruit (neighborhoodfruit.com). They have over 10,000 fruit trees (and veggies and herbs) registered across the US, which can be viewed on a standard google map.

I've tried both services, and I find the Neighborhood Fruit one easier to use, because of the maps and the easier interface.

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