Hats off to the first in, hardest workers, best
cheerleaders
We are growing together, on this site. We are planning and
planting, tending and enjoying a community garden that grows
exponentially better as we help each other. All of our community
here, and all of our Sponsors, are special to us. Gardeners are
simply wonderful people.
Yet in any group effort some people contribute the special
something needed to create a synergy, where five people come
together to complete the work of ten, or thirty manage to move a
mountain. Someone's special contribution is to jump in first,
releasing and directing the group's energy. Others empower their
fellows, teaching as they work. Sometimes an individual's sheer
enthusiasm and free use of encouraging words give a group the will
to persevere when the going gets tough. And once in a while, the
key to a group's success is someone who just happens to be there --
often in uncanny coincidence -- at a critical time.
Energized by Gold Medalists
The Sponsors on our Gold Medal list are those people. Their
inclusion here is not a function of dollars but that they are
do-ers. Every one of them said to us, "Here, let me help," before
they even knew the cost, or whether they might "give away a
secret."
Some volunteered their time and put in hours proofreading our
test website pages. Others read archived articles and created
indexes.
Some are new friends who joined the group since we launched
GardenAtoZ.com, answered one of our calls for help or came to a
Garden By Janet and Steven session and then helped set up, run and
record other such events. A few have been "with us" for twenty
years or more, as students, correspondents, fellow travelers to
educational events or helping hands at volunteer plantings.
There are some we have included on the list who Sponsored us and
then we learned of their gold-hearted volunteering on other fronts
-- on projects not necessarily GardenAtoZ but important to the
health of our gardening community.
If you know someone who is a GardenAtoZ Sponsor who should be
listed here, please tell us about them. (Such a person would almost
certainly not tell us their story directly.) Remind us where we may
have met that person, which of the many wonderful community garden
projects we've seen was theirs, which report they contributed to an
article or seminars they attended with us. Chances are good that
we'll say, "Oh, yes!" and know to add that name here, too.
The Gold Medal
list
Where would we be without you? Thanks!
Marge Alpern
Pat Baum
Beaufort Cranford
Betty Grady
Debra Green
Deb Hall
Dennis and Carole Groh
Eric and Julia Hofley
Judy Jacobs
Peggy Macunovich
Master Gardener Association of Wayne
County, Michigan
Paul and Priscilla Needle
Cory, Stacey and Elizabeth Nikkila
Sonja Nikkila and Cameron Fryer
Pam Palechek
Judy and Jerry Root
Debi and Darl Slentz
Deb Tosch