Our third CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley) is happening on July 14th, 2012 and tickets are available starting today. We hope to see you there!

Unemployed? Underemployed? New college graduate? Considering new career options?

Join us for CareerCampSCV 2012!

When: Saturday, July 14, 2012 9AM to 3:30PM

Where: 26455 Rockwell Canyon Road Santa Clarita, CA 91355

FREE Admission • FREE Parking

Directions

College of the Canyons Career Center presents CareerCampSCV, a FREE hybrid conference/unconference dedicated to helping you build the career you deserve. The day will include scheduled speakers, ad hoc presentations and breakout ses- sions on all aspects of building your career. CareerCamp is FREE for all adults who want to build or improve their career. Space is Limited. Register for FREE today. For more information, a list of scheduled speakers and additional career content

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What do flowers & flour have in common?

The Los Angeles Zoo Docents’ Garden Boutique and Bake Sale

Benefiting the LA Zoo Docents’ National 2012 AZAD Conference – an annual conference, this year inviting zoo and aquarium docents from all over the U.S. to enjoy the hospitality of Southern California.

We invite you to support us by enjoying plants that please the eye & sweets and savories that please the palate!

WHEN: Sunday, June 3rd, 1:00 – 4:00
WHERE: In the Garden at 536 North June Street, Hancock Park (No reservations, no entry fee!)

Held with the support of the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association.

Information: stonehen@aol.com

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It’s Spring here in the northern hemisphere and time for gardening to kick into high gear.

It’s also time for another season of Troy-Bilt’s Saturday6!

For the second year in a row, I have been asked — along with 5 of my fellow bloggers — to be part of this program for Troy-Bilt. This involves doing what we do best — blogging about gardening — but also gives us access to all sorts of tools and equipment from Troy-Bilt to try out in our own garden — and review for you!

Even better, we will all be having giveaways of Troy-Bilt equipment and tools on our blogs throughout the Summer and Fall. Be sure to watch this space and my fellow Saturday6 bloggers to get your chance to win some great stuff.

Where can you find the other members of the Saturday6? Here is information on each of the bloggers including links to some of our articles for the Troy-Bilt newsletter, The Dirt, and some videos we did as part of last year’s program.

I’m looking forward to another great season of the Saturday6 and reading all the great content from my fellow bloggers. Please join me on his journey through the 2012 growing season courtesy of Troy-Bilt!

Visit A Gardener’s Notebook on WelchWrite.com

Sign up for your own copy of “The Dirt” email newsletter!

Who are the Saturday6?

Kylee Baumle from Our Little Acre http://ourlittleacre.blogspot.com/ Kylee Baumle lives and gardens in Zone 5b in northwest Ohio, where she tames the native clay to produce vegetables, fruits, and as many annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees as she can fit onto an acre surrounded by rural farmland. Author of the popular gardening blog, Our Little Acre, Kylee is a freelance writer and photographer who feels fortunate to have a husband who sometimes joins in on her gardening projects and who loves cats as much as she does. Articles The Unsung Heroes of the Shade Garden Ode To The Bean Videos Pressure Washing with the 2700 PSI Pressure Washer Jennah Watters from Jennah’s Garden http://www.jennahsgarden.com/ After a lifetime of consciously avoiding helping her mother garden, Jennah started gardening voluntarily in 2007, when she and her husband bought their first home. It came with only a few sad, half-dead bushes and one all-the-way-dead mum. (Things are much better now.) Notorious for moving plants several times before being content with their location, Jennah gardens by trial and error, and attempts not to dwell on the error. She is wife to a deputy sheriff and mom to two cats and one dog, and hopes to one day be as good a gardener as her grandparents. Articles Strip Mall Gardening Succulents Videos Succulents Edging with the Troy-Bilt TB144 Cynthia “Meems” Glover from Hoe and Shovel http://www.hoeandshovel.com Cynthia lives and gardens in her beloved native state of Florida only a short distance from the beautiful shores of the Gulf of Mexico. She is a blogger, freelance writer, amateur photographer, Master Gardener, and garden coach. Cynthia specializes in Florida-friendly and native plants, while steadfastly adhering to “right-plant, right place” in her mostly shady garden.  It is her passion to share and teach all she’s learned while gardening in a challenging growing climate and to inspire hopeful gardeners to enjoy their gardens, too. Articles From the Ground Up Structural Elements to Shape Your Winter Garden Gardening Tips for Beginners and Reminders for Veterans Videos “Layering” to Create Garden Pathways Douglas E. Welch from A Gardener’s Notebook http://douglasewelch.com/agn Born in the epitome of small town America – New London, Ohio – Douglas Welch spent many summers digging and planting vegetables in his grandmother’s garden or driving a tractor on his family’s small soybean farm.  Computer work called him to the big city of Los Angeles, but he managed to take a piece of Ohio with him. When he and his wife bought their first home, they inherited an overgrown, 10 year old garden. He has spent his years renovating what was a meticulous Japanese garden into a small piece of woodland among the urban cement.  This double life illustrates his belief that balance in this modern world requires a combination of high-tech and high-touch living. Douglas’ gardening column and podcast, A Gardener’s Notebook, began in 1996 and is available at DouglasEWelch.com/agn. Articles The Lazy Gardener Your garden – inch by inch Videos Wine Bottle Edging Gina Thomas from My Skinny Garden http://www.myskinnygarden.com Gina lives and gardens in the Chicagoland area, zone 5b. One summer day in 2007, she decided to grow an organic tomato – four years later, most of the yard of her small house has been replaced by vegetable and perennial gardens. While she still considers herself a novice gardener, killing the occasional plant, every now and then, she grows something phenomenal or builds something interesting. Her greatest gardening accomplishments are the cedar pergola built over a weekend with good friends, raised vegetable beds she constructed herself, and the trip to Las Vegas she won in a tastiest tomato contest. Her philosophy is simple – grow, marvel, eat, laugh, persevere. Gina is a part-time freelance writer and the cofounder and vice president of Forest Park Community Garden, a nonprofit 501(c)3 dedicated to educating the community on building organic sustainable food systems. Gina chronicles her gardening and DIY conundrums at her blog My Skinny Garden. Articles Starting A Community Garden Growing Peppers in Containers Plant Zucchini after July 4th to Avoid Squash Vine Borer Infestation Videos How To Make Your Own Potting Soil Mark Clement from MyFixitUpLife http://myfixituplife.com Mark Clement is a licensed contractor, co-hosts the live radio show MyFixitUpLife with his wife Theresa, regularly contributes to “Extreme How-To” magazine, “Professional Deck Builder” magazine, AOL’s DIY Life, DIYNetwork.com, HGTVpro.com, OldHouseWeb, “Old House Journal,” and has been a featured guest on DIY Network, Discovery Channel, HGTV and PBS. Articles MYFIXITUPLIFE Quick Tip: Lawn Repair MYFIXITUPLIFE Quick Tip: Growing Greener Grass Videos How To Use a String Trimmer as an Edger How To Build a Compost Bin

Disclaimer

While Troy-Bilt provides me payment and equipment for being part of the Saturday6, the opinions you see here are always my own. I review Troy-Bilt’s equipment as any gardener user would and should. I depend on honest reviews for my own purchasing decisions and I assure you that my reviews will be my honest feelings and opinions, too. 

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My favorite shared items for April 2012 is a post from My Word with Douglas E. Welch

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I will be doing career consulting for the people who stop by the booth as well as chatting up CareerCampLA which is only 6 weeks away. If you attend the event, stop by and say Hello!

(Watch for an announcement soon on some more career consulting work I will be doing for Sideskills.com, too)

Click picture for complete information on the job fair

Sideskills.com

“SideSkills is the one-stop-shop to find a full-time, part-time, or contract job, or make extra income. Market yourself, your services, or your products. Now over 1,000 skills to choose from.

Welcome to the easiest way to make extra money, received custom offers, and monetize your skills. No-fees for accepting payments through the site! It’s time to start making some extra income with your talents.”

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Here are some examples of her work.

Jeanine Colini Design Associates on Etsy

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PANEL DISCUSSION ON DIGITAL PRIVACY

“Party Like It’s 1986″(the last time electronic laws were updated)

Date: Tuesday, March 20thTime: 7p

Panelists:

• Douglas Welch (Independent Technology Consultant for New and Social Media Strategies)
• Heidi Kujawa (Founding Member of Kode Corporation – a company dedicated solely to intellectual property protection)
• Nicole A. Ozer (Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director of the ACLU of Northern California)

Location:

UCLA School of Law (385 Charles E Young Dr. East, Room 1347 Los Angeles, CA 90095)

Parking: Lot 2 (attached is a UCLA Campus map)

Cost: FREE

Also, light hors d’oeuvres and wine will be served, along with a chance to network before and after the panel presentation.

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Due to personal family issues with the scheduled speaker, I will be speaking at this weeks’s Tuesday’s with Transitioners meeting on the topic of “A Year of Action!”.

Action — any action — can help us to get our careers and lives moving forward. Douglas presents a few “action items” you might want to explore or use as jumpstart points for your own ideas.

Learn how action benefits you no matter what your job, current job status or career!

Please share this event with anyone you know who might be interested. All are welcome!

RSVP via Facebook

What: Douglas speaks on “A Year of Action” at Tuesdays with Transitioners

When: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 – Noon-2pm

Where: Congregational Church of Northridge, 9659 Balboa Blvd, Northridge, CA 91325-1902

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