Re: Introducing myself

**"* Z* <b*@gmail.com>**

Dear Kathryn,
You are very welcome here. Someday we would all love to see some pictures of 
your real  non commercial three acre garden.
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Bruce Zimmerman
Open-Line Garden Show
CKTB 610 AM
Saturdays 10 - Noon EST

www.brucezimmerman.com
abz1@canada.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathryn Marsh" <kmarsh@iol.ie>
To: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 7:37 AM
Subject: [GWL] Introducing myself


> Greetings everyone
>
> I find I'm uncharacteristically nervous about introducing myself to
> this group since garden writing comes some way down both my source of
> earnings and how I spend my time. My main source of income is
> academic editing and my main use of time is the management, on a
> volunteer basis, of the gardens of Sonairte: The National Ecology
> Centre of Ireland where one apple tree, an Ecklinville Seedling, is a
> survivor from the 1835 Ordnance Survey of Ireland. The garden has had
> organic certification since 1987 and is used to demonstrate growing
> techniques and sustainability to both amateurs and commercial
> growers. I have a fortnightly general gardening page in a Dublin
> newspaper and contribute occasional articles, mostly on issues around
> organic gardening, the integration of ornamental and food gardens,
> gardening for wildlife and similar issues to a range of magazines and
> newspapers. I talk and teach on these and related themes nationally
> and occasionally internationally to a range of clients from garden
> groups to industry bodies and represent organic and environmental
> interests on a statutory body, the GMO advisory group of the
> Environmental Protection Agency. I have a three acre garden, much of
> it in a state of benign neglect, which includes damp woodland and
> formal bog gardens, water meadow managed for species variety, orchard
> and vegetable areas and the usual collection of formal gardens. I
> make regular resolutions not to become a plantaholic but break them
> when faced with roses, hellebores, irises and primulas. It has
> recently been born in upon me that 18 climbing roses, six clematis,
> two wisterias and two honeysuckles is probably too much for the walls
> of any one not particularly large house but I have great difficulty
> making sacrifices.
>
> On the topic of fees I am a firm opponent of undercharging. One can
> always give a discount to a group who can't afford one's full fees
> but who one wishes to talk to for one reason or another. But it
> should be made clear that this is a discount and should be invoiced
> as such. It just isn't fair to others to start undercutting. If
> speaking to a charity one can even charge full fees and later make a
> tax deductible donation - a practise I have found acceptable to the
> Irish revenue commissioners.
>
>
> Looking forward to learning a lot
>
> kathryn
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