Homegrown.org , who according to their website "is a place where we can learn from each other, share our questions, and show off how we dig in the dirt, grow our own food, work with our hands, and cook and share our meals - all things that we call HOMEGROWN," had a photo contest (a pair of Broo tix was the prize) asking members to document the fruits of their home grown labor by uploading pics to flickr.The winner, offered a set of 6 photos, including the fish photo.
With only 41 photos entered in the online community building contest, I don't know if homegrown.org considers this a successful promotion. But, it's started this conversation.
What's interesting to me, is the fact that on Homegrown.org discussion boards, the most populated community is Urban Gardeners with 92 members, followed not so closely by Bread with 48 members.
Urban Gardeners? The board topics range from blog posts about illegally raising chickens in the city to mite mitigation.
If you haven't already- expand your definition of who you'd consider the average user of a website like homegrown.org to be -and you might be surprised at who rules the roost when it comes to online chatter about emerging trends and movements.
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