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GardenComm
GardenComm
Each year, GardenComm recognizes industry excellence and service to the association with its Honors program. Submit Your Nomination Today!
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Houston Chronicle
A month is no more than a nanosecond in the life of a garden, yet so much happens!
Working from home since mid-March, I’ve had more time than usual to watch and hear the spring show, with its boisterous chorus of migrating and mating birds. The cardinals have quieted now, and I see why: A female has quarantined herself in the Texas persimmon tree just beyond our deck, awaiting eggs.
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The New York Times
In 1943, when food was scarce during World War II, Americans were urged to grow their own crops wherever they could. It’s estimated that 20 million victory gardens flourished in the United States that year, and New York City alone produced 200 million pounds of tomatoes, beans, beets, carrots and lettuce. Seventy-seven years later, as millions of Americans are self-quarantined, and many worry about trips to the grocery store and the strength of the food-supply chain, the coronavirus pandemic has revived the victory-garden movement.
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Lehigh Valley Health Network
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day on Wednesday and National Garden Month, we encourage you and your family to plant something together. Take time to reset and refresh in nature. Get back to the simple joys in life — digging in the dirt, feeling the warmth of the sun, stewarding a garden and observing growth right before your eyes.
Although we may be apart right now, we can still grow together at home.
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Benary’s most exciting BIG addition: Extremely well branched with short internodes so it’s covered with blooms. Outstanding garden performance lives up to the BIG Begonia name. Earlier to set blooms then perfect mounded habit later in the season. Extremely heat tolerant!
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Poynter
For more than a month now, coronavirus news has crowded out almost every other story. And it’s almost all gloom and doom.
Poynter business analyst Rick Edmonds and Kelly McBride, chair of the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership, discuss the ethics of good news. Do editors and news directors have a responsibility to tell us something good, particularly when most of the news is dire?
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National Press Club
Self-care is as much about learning as it is about practicing. Help our journalism community by sharing how you are getting through this challenging time.
Here are our best strategies for taking care of yourselves during the coronavirus outbreak. We’ll be updating our advice daily.
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Make your garden come to life with Sunfinity® Sunflowers that thrive and bloom continuously all season long.
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With the widest selection of full-blooming varieties, Optimara continues to advance the industry with new plant varieties and innovative growing techniques, constantly refined over years of research and development. We create new, exciting plants and care products which are trend-setting and truly functional. Our effort is to continue offering customers a unique selection of flowers in a beautiful product line.
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Wall Street Journal via Medium
For many people, inboxes have become a life organizer. They no longer contain simple business communications, but also long form articles to read later, notes to ourselves, to-do alerts, photo forwards from friends and family, and more. Email as a product has remained largely the same, but our use cases now include everything from interactive calendars to moving images.
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Democracy Fund
Over the past month, 30 states have made journalism an essential service in their disaster declarations, putting local news outlets on par with hospitals and grocery stores. It makes sense: local news is how we find out about stay at home orders and whether our nearby hospital has tests available. It lets us know which grocery stores are holding senior hours, which schools are delivering hot lunches, and how to get help with rent and mortgage payments.
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MediaPost
March, the first month to begin feeling the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the advertising economy, saw the U.S. ad marketplace decline 10.8% from March 2019, according to results of the U.S. Ad Market Tracker, a collaboration of MediaPost and Standard Media Index.
The decline was less severe among the biggest ad categories, as the top 10 fell 9.6% from March 2019, while categories 11+ fell 14.1%.
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The Verge
Facebook says it’s going to display the location of “high-reach” Facebook pages and Instagram accounts on every post the owners share in order to give people “more information to help them gauge the reliability and authenticity of the content they see in their feeds.” The company didn’t say what it considers a high-reach page or account.
The change is first coming to accounts based outside of the U.S. that reach large audiences primarily in the U.S.
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The Verge
Twitter is testing a new option that shows you all the times a post has been retweeted with a comment, the company has confirmed to The Verge. In screenshots posted by users with the feature enabled, a new “Retweet with comments” counter can be seen alongside the existing “Likes” and “Retweets” numbers. Twitter said it’s currently testing the feature with a small group of iOS Twitter users.
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The New York Times
With the coronavirus continuing to upend familiar rhythms of life, leaving schools shuttered, millions out of work and billions stuck at home, those looking for ways to pass the time have gotten creative.
In the absence of jam-packed calendars, people are turning to social media challenges in droves. Some bring together families for choreographed dance routines while others spark the inner artist or unlock hidden engineering skills.
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