Re: Memorial for Jeff Ball?

**"* M* <B*@verizon.net>**

It looks as if Jeff Ball's word is part of our culture already. I searched 
"yardening" with Google and here are some of the things I found immediately:

Jeff and Nancy's website, www.yardener.com

www.frontyardening.com ("Front yard farming without upsetting your 
neighbors") A site by a writer in Los Angeles named Helen Jupiter

references on www.Amazon.com to Jeff's book, "Yardening"

The word yardening was defined in something called the Urban Dictionary 
(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yardening) and the 
opportunity to buy yardening mugs and shirts

A column written by Jeff Lowenfels in July of last year 
(http://www.adn.com/2011/07/06/1955206/a-little-lull-in-the-yardening.html)

"Yardner flowers" (note the spelling) from www.peatmoss.com/pm-yard.php 
which is from the Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss people

http://beckyintherootcellar.com/2011/06/10/yardening/

http://prairiewoods.org/event/green-living-group-sustainable-yardening

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gourmet-Yardening-by-Will-Hodge/127650207265138

Liz Ball's column, Yardening, in the Springfield Press-Delco News Network

A video featuring Jeff Ball 
http://www.answers.com/topic/yardening-how-to-grow-plants-in-a-greenhouse

Sadly, an empty fan page on Facebook 
(http://www.facebook.com/pages/Yardening/373258563802)

and pages and pages of other entries for Yardening in the Google results.

--Betty Mackey

P. S. I attended a GWA symposium in Washington, DC in1992 and was warned to 
stay away from the bad boys in the back of the bus -- the two Jeffs.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Lowenfels" <jeff.lowenfels@gmail.com>

>I have been thinking of a fitting way to memorialize Jeff. For me it is the 
>use of the word "Yardening" which he and Liz invented. I think it would be 
>a fitting tribute to make it part of gardening vernacular, especially since 
>it describes exactly what many of us write about.I just put it into my 
>spelling checker!
>
> Anyhow, I was thinking of Jeff today. I wish I could go out and Yarden a 
> bit.
>
> Teaming with microbes,
>

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