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need your input: my idea for ‘virtual garden club’ events online
21.07.2023 - 22:32 / awaytogarden.com
I ENJOY CONNECTING with other gardeners, and have a new idea of how to do that with more of you in 2017, no matter where you live. In response to inquiries from readers too far away to attend my garden tours or workshops, or even a lecture I’m giving around the Northeast, I’m proposing a series of webinar-style “events” I think of as a virtual garden club.I need your help, in the form of a short survey (link at the bottom of this story), to decide if it’s a good idea, and what format it might take. The survey probably won’t take you more than 5 minutes to complete.
Background: For more than 20 years, I’ve lectured to garden audiences, and also hosted Garden Conservancy Open Days at my own garden in the Hudson Valley of New York (as I will again).
In 2016, in response to visitors’ requests requesting more time to chat and ask questions than is possible at the big tours, I added smaller, more personal half-day garden workshops, and they sold out. (They’ll be repeated in 2017.)
But that still doesn’t address geographic limitations. Some of you are just too far away to visit, no matter the format.
I attend and learn from a lot of webinars—with Cornell Lab of Ornithology, with various horticulture trade groups and nursery associations, with eOrganic (the organic arm of Extension online), besides ones about technology that help me with the website.
They vary not just in subject, but in length, price, day of week and time of day–and that’s where I want your feedback.
Using a platform such as GoToMeeting or GoToWebinar, which you can access easily from your computer, iPad or even smartphone, I’m proposing something like this:
One possibility: I’d give a slide talk on a particular subject, then open up the floor for questions—the
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