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Fiskateer Blogging On The Fiskars Garden Challenges On Their Blog Site (June,2008)

Where to Begin . . .
By cheryl On a lighter note, I must say that I was excited to see that Brent from Fiskars Garden shared with us. It was the wildest thing . . . I had just been to a garden center and was looking at some Fiskars gardening tools thinking that I’d ...
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Fiskars Ease of Use Tools In The Bradenton Herald- Florida (May, 2008)

Follow these helpful tips to keep aging gardeners happy
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States
My 71-year-old mother loves to work in her yard and garden, but over the past few years has been plagued with aches and pains to her back, knees and hands. ...

Ergonomic tools with fatter handles and other design features also are readily available and can make lawn and garden activities a little easier.

See www.radiusgarden.com and www.fiskars.com to find these types of unique tools, and visit www.gardening withease.com for wide variety of ergonomic gardening equipment.

Fiskars Sharp Garden Knife (April, 2008)

Cleaning the park of clad (no replies)
By rmptr
I tried my Fiskars garden knife in the deep grass cutting flaps... Gonna need practice with that! Managed to slice my arm, leg, and fat belly! That puppy is sharp! Need to make a sheath for it. ...
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Fiskars Cinema Series (April, 2008)

Cinema Series Celebrates Fiskars Creative Spirit

Biloxi Sun Herald, MS, USA
By Fiskars Corporation After 350 years in business, the Fiskars Corporation has plenty of stories to tell. But the one that we're most excited about, ...
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Fiskars Project Orange Thumb Blog Entry (April, 2008)

Saturday morning 4/12 started off cloudy & warm, not hot - perfect for sowing seeds and planting seedlings, onions and potatoes. Fifteen eager community gardeners clad in orange Fiskar's Project Orange Thumb tee shirts gathered around, ready to dive in to the tasks at hand at the first “official” workday of the Seagrove Community Garden. We all posed for commemorative group photos with our clean shirts and tools - all shiny and new! After the pictures we formed a circle and held hands as the Rev. Bob Dowling led us in a prayer and blessing. We went around the circle and introduced ourselves. Susan gave a brief introduction to the group of our organic gardening methods and the square-foot garden idea, demonstrating visually with a square foot grid made from wood strips. She explained the intensive planting design that discourages weed growth and promotes plant health through diversity and companion planting that discourages pests.

The first task at hand was to grab a rake or hoe and break up some of the larger dirt clods in the three beds we planned on sowing. The gardeners broke into smaller groups to accomplish a number of goals. In the next few hours, we planted 8 - 4’ beds of Kennebec, Cobbler and Yukon potatoes that should be ready to harvest mid-July. 128 lettuce seedlings and 144 spinach seedlings were transplanted to begin our salad days. One flat of marigolds was evenly distributed among the 3 rows. We planted a bed of beets, a bed of carrots and lots of radishes. We hope to get at least one picking from 4 - 20’ rows of sugar snap peas by mid-June and we put in over 300 each of yellow and white onions. We should have our first salads in about 7 weeks! Several members took on the job of planting new seed trays for successive planting and seeded 5 trays of nasturtiums, marigolds and romaine lettuce.Three hours later we began to call it a day as we finished filling the majority of the intended three 50’ x 4’ rows. Hot, dirty and tired but full of satisfaction from a job well done we parted ways after high fives, hugs and a sense of camaraderie. As soon as we left, God in his infinite wisdom gifted us with a perfect shower of gentle rain.

Fiskars Cinema Series (April, 2008)

Cinema Series Celebrates Fiskars Creative Spirit

Earthtimes- London, UK

Linden, who builds violins and experimental bicycles, in addition to designing our innovative garden products and craft tools, embodies the spirit of ...
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Fiskars Pruners (April, 2008)

Different Kinds of Pruners for Your Garden
By Market Merchants(Market Merchants)
Sponsored Link: Fiskars PowerGear Bypass Pruner. Loppers: This pruner is best used on small twigs and branches. The lopper is a manual pruner tool and has extremely large handles that give good leverage. Most lopper pole length is two ...
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Mom Blog Network (April -2008)

I kill everything I try to grow, but if you're not like me, this is the time of year to get ready to garden! Pick up this Step 2 Garden Hopper Mobile Garden Stool and Fiskars Garden Bucket Caddy for just $33 shipped to your door. Just scroll down the page until you see the "Buy together option." If mom likes to garden, this is a great gift idea for Mother's Day!

Our Happy Happenings Blog (April-2008)

Friday, April 4, 2008

Project Orange Thumb

Project Orange Thumb is a program funded by grants that helps to provide the tools and materials needed to create gardens for schools, senior centers, garden clubs, camps, youth groups, and other neighborhood organizations. They are located in communities across the country.

On the Fiskars Garden Website you can read more about this amazing program, how it got started and the great things they have done. This is a great program that allows people express themselves creatively through their gardening.

Project Orange Thumb was started in 2003 and Fiskars has given the Project Orange Thumb Grant to over 10 groups across the US so that they could create and develop community gardens of their own. You can check out the winners from this year and read the descriptions of the of the winning gardens.

This contest is so unique as it helps communities and the people who live in those communities to become more involved. This in turn brings about a better community. These kinds of programs are so important as people get involved and try to be a part of making their community look beautiful. There were some really creative entries so I'm sure you'll want to stop by and check them out.