[Garden] Planting Party Poster - Approval

[Alicia Mah]

whoops, here is the final poster (pending WPIRG approval), attached. i'll
aim to have them printed and ready to be picked up at the office for
distribution by a week from now (on tuesday)

Alicia

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:

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> --- On Thu, 3/12/09, Alicia Mah <alicia.mah at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hello to all gardeners,
> > Please take a look at the poster attached. I've
> > submitted it to Evan for
> > approval, the plan is to put it up around campus. Please
> > respond with a
> > quick "yes the poster looks okay" or "we
> > should change 'this'... "
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> The bottom half of the poster is rather... left aligned. One way to
> fix it might be to use more centering. Another way might be to stick a
> few more graphics in the poster.
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> Here's one possible layout:
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> "Community gardening is the answer for you" --> center this
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> "Come to our seed planting..." --> right align this paragraph
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> Then you might stick pictures of cassava or bittermelon or
> other vegetables we might grow in the blank spaces. Even if you don't
> stick in any other graphics I think this balances out the poster a
> bit.
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> I am also wondering whether the bullet points could be improved. You
> already have "learn about gardening" in the "No experience but want to
> learn?" bit (although maybe it is worth re-iterating -- maybe "learn
> about organic gardening"?). Also, "get free vegetables" may turn off
> the good-hearted souls who tend to be attracted to the garden. Here
> are some other possible bullet points off the top of my head. Probably
> three bullet points are a good number, but if you're looking for ideas
> then you might consider some of the following:
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> - Grow wholesome organic vegetables!
> - Spend time outside for a change!
> - Dig in the dirt!
> - Get your hands dirty!
> - Support local agriculture!
> - Develop your appreciation for misshapen carrots!
> - Help compost UW's food waste!
> - Take your frustration out on bindweed!
> - Eat the (edible) weeds!
> - Fresh peas! Fresh strawberries! Fresh tomatoes!
> - Party with the earthworms!
>
> etc.
>
> If you're not looking for ideas then that is fine too. I am just
> picking nits on account of I am a lousy nitpicking nitpicker.
>
> > P.S. Paul, could you potentially come later on in the
> > evening (say around 7)
> > for the planting party? Would that be a fair compromise?
>
> There's no need to compromise on my account. If I can drop by I will,
> but unfortunately I can offer no guarantees. You should really be
> cultivating all the lurkers lurking on the list, because they are the
> ones who have easy access to campus, and they represent the vibrant
> young seedlings of the revolution.
>
> - Paul
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