<div dir="ltr"><br>Already people are excited! <div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Batka, Sarah Christine</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:sbatka@illinois.edu">sbatka@illinois.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 9:51 AM<br>Subject: RE: [Education] Suggested wording for Swap Table for your consideration<br>To: Lorraine Kells <<a href="mailto:lxkells@gmail.com">lxkells@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">This is exciting! Thank you for this excellent suggestion. Incentive to clean out my garage!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Education <<a href="mailto:education-bounces@chicagocommunitygardens.org" target="_blank">education-bounces@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Lorraine Kells via Education<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 18, 2020 9:49 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> JW Glass via Communications <<a href="mailto:communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org" target="_blank">communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a>>; kuumba treahm <<a href="mailto:kuumbatreahm@gmail.com" target="_blank">kuumbatreahm@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Education] Suggested wording for Swap Table for your consideration<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm submitting wording for FB and the website about the swap table, and would like to present this at the meeting tonight. We can add info@ccga for questions, comments.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As Julie suggested no tickets are necessary, just a volunteer or two at the table which would best be among the vendor/exhibitor tables. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">CCGA steps into the ‘sharing economy’ with a Garden Goods Swap</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Consumption trends are changing, and "gift exchange" – sharing items – is a way to live more economically. We think gardeners are experts at thrift exchange rather than trashing
what they may no longer use. We know that in nature there is no concept of waste, simply something in the wrong place.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Bring your gently used, clean, garden related item – whether a pair of gloves, a hand tool, a rake or shovel, gardening book or unused journal, a small plaque, a potted herb,
a clay pot – anything you’d like to swap at our conference. We’ll have a table set up for this garden goods swap. Anyone who brings something can take something in exchange. Swap as often as you see something put on the table, but always leave something.
It's best to bring an item that can be carried easily, no lawnmowers or compost bins at the table. When you choose an item it must be taken from the table, our volunteers cannot hold items for you. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">All items left at the end of the conference will be given to a charitable donation organizatio. Anything that is recyclable will be recycled. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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