Blogs are washed up and slow moving. Or so it seems after launching a new project this week and before having a chance to reveal it here, it was unleashed on Google Buzz and I got quick responses in emails, IMs, and phone calls from roughly 90% of this blog's readership. The digital world, apparently, does not wait. At least not as much as what I had grown accustomed to in Nicaragua where, I learned, there was more time than life.
For those that haven't yet seen it, take a look at my new site The Urban Worm. It's pretty cool what you can create online, mostly for free, with very little actual web development experience.
I'll write a little more about the actual process of creating this and what I plan on testing, but for right now, go to the site and send me your suggestions (new pages, new copy, other products, promotions, blog entries). Better yet, buy a worm bin. $10 spent on AdWords so far hasn't yielded any orders. Be the first!
Dave, I think this awesome response is also about buds being ready to support buds in a productive adventure. Everybody grows up; you just did it more abruptly by starting a business with worms. Don't forget the marketing power of buds...we are powerful.
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p.s. Putting Danzig "mother" as a background song on the urban worm website may appeal to the early 30s mesh-T wearing demographic...
If you put "Mother" as a background song, I will immediately purchase a worm bin.
ReplyDeleteI will likely purchase one anyway, but this will guarantee it.
This was us:
ReplyDeleteIn 2004 a group of University of Michigan students, faculty, and staff and several community members came together to create a student-based program for promoting food-system awareness. The discussion was initially spurred by a visit to Matthaei Botanical Gardens by Will Allen of Growing Power in Milwaukee orchestrated by Ruth Knoll and follow-up discussions with Sara Warber and Kate Irvine at the UM Integrative Medicine Program and MBGNA Director Bob Grese. Students from several UM classes studied the logistics of integrated vermicomposting and food production as a demonstration of a closed loop recycling project on campus during 2004-2005, and the first Cultivating Community garden was built in the summer of 2005. Shortly afterwards other campus gardens began.
Cultivating Community obtained its first batch of red worms from Growing Power, and from there conversations began between Michigan Union chefs, Residential College faculty, the Ginsberg Center, Cultivating Community members, and others about how to best promote this unique program. Guidance from the Ypsilanti-based non-profit group Growing Hope helped advance our goals and community garden plans.
Cultivating Community's gardening facilities are generously supplied by the Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Other connections with the University of Michigan span from the Waste Management & Recycling Services and Grounds Operations to the University Dining Services.
The inception of this program would not have been possible without the creative mind of Ruth Knoll and the generous funding from the Andrah Foundation.
I'll work on getting "Mother" up onto the site. Mesh tees and worm bins go together like peanut butter and jelly.
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