Grow Your Own
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We’re celebrating two years of Grow Your Own!
[Update, October 3, 2009]: Deadline for the final event of 2009 is October 30. Grow Your Own will go on winter hiatus beginning November 2009. We’ll be back in spring 2010 for more fun growing, raising, hunting, and foraging our own food.
What’s Grow Your Own?
Grow Your Own is a twice-a-month blogging event that celebrates the foods we grow or raise ourselves and the dishes we make using our homegrown products. Anyone with a blog can participate! Do you write a food blog? A gardening blog? A farm blog? A hunting or foraging blog? An eco blog? A frugal blog? Anything whatsoever related to home and garden or fun activities to do with children? You can write a post about some of the edibles you have raised, grown, or found and cooked with. Having a food blog is not a requirement for participation.
The rules are simple:
- Make a dish that uses at least one item from your very own garden or farm and post about it. Your garden doesn’t have to be big. Container gardens are welcome! If you hunted or foraged, those items are also eligible. You can also use something that was given to you, but the giver must have personally grown or raised the item. If you paid for it, then it doesn’t count.
- Anything edible that you have grown or raised qualifies, including fruits, vegetables, herbs, sprouts, edible flowers, nuts, grains, legumes, dairy products, eggs, livestock, and anything else I might have forgotten. Produce from both indoor and outdoor gardens are welcome! Different regions will have different things available, so feel free to feature things unique to your area. (Rambutan trees, anyone?) We are all about celebrating variety!
- Please make sure your dish is posted during the month of the event because we like to celebrate seasonal items. One post per blog, please.
- As a courtesy, please include a link to this announcement in your blog post, and then update later with a link to the round-up.
- If you want to include one of the Grow Your Own badges in your post, feel free to grab one from below. (Please upload to your own server/image repository.) Logos professionally designed by Jeff Meyers.
Opportunities to host! If you would like to host, please send an email to andreasrecipesgyo AT gmail DOT com. To be considered for hosting, you must participate in the event at least one time prior. To find out who’s hosting each round, visit the Grow Your Own Hosting page.
To include your post in the round-up, send an email to the host by the 15th or the 30th of each month with the following information:
- Subject line: Grow Your Own #
- Your name and location (country, state if applicable)
- Your blog URL
- Permalink to your post
- 300×300 pixel photo of your dish (As long as the photo is no larger than 300 pixels in either direction, it will work.)
For an event like this I think it’s useful and interesting to see what is fresh and available from different regions at different times of the year, so please make sure you include the location information when you submit your entry.
It’s hard to keep track of entries if we don’t receive an email, so please remember to email your information to your host. We feel bad if we miss someone’s post!
We have our own Flickr photo group, so if you would like to share your photos, please let me know in an email and I’ll send you an invitation. To join the Flickr group, you must have participated in Grow Your Own with at least one post. Also, I created the following Technorati tags for the event, so if you want your posts to be found then include these in your meta data: GYO, Grow Your Own.
The host will post a round-up of all our dishes within a few days after the deadline (of course subject to any other events in life, acts of God, etc). Questions? Please ask in the comments!
LIST OF ROUND-UPS
August 30, 2008, #15 (The One Year Anniversary)
August 30, 2009, #34 (the Second Anniversary)
BADGES (200 pixels wide)
SMALLER BADGES (good for sidebars, 150 pixels wide)
