FLUFFCO - The Fluff Company

Celebrate with Gayla, and maybe win some pretty awesome prizes, by submitting a funny, poignant, silly, or heartfelt haiku in her Eighth Birthday and First Annual Celebratory Haiku Contest

When Fluffco became an official company back in 1999, one of the first projects to really take shape was Gayla’s online magazine, You Grow Girl. Amazingly, it’s been 8 years since the site was launched in February of 2000. Much has changed since You Grow Girl was first launched and Gayla’s passion and interest in plant-life, gardening, ecology, and connecting with like-minded people has only grown. Gayla is now a celebrated author and …

Friday July 27th, Chicago
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“Many bloggers actually consider their online space a visual medium. Can the online rendition of your visual output really do it justice? What do visual artists get out of showing their work online? What about virtual collaboration? Gayla Trail moderates a conversation with bloggers Tracey Clark, Renee Garner, Keri Smith and Zoe Strauss, who are making the most of technology to further their non-textual art.”

It feels like the third issue of MakingRoom Magazine has just been discovered in the ruins of some ancient civilization. We invite you to blow the dust off of your bookmarks and have a look at the work of: William Greiner, Christian Patterson, Richard Colman, and Clark Hsiao.

We also have a feature on Samia Saleem’s great New Orleans postcard project Degrees of Separation.

MakingRoom is a magazine about the process, intention and results of image-making published by Davin Risk and Ross Evertson.

We’ve got a couple of gardening events coming down the pipeline this month.

Gayla will be speaking at Canada Blooms :

Urban Potager: Growing Food in Small or Difficult Spaces
Friday, March 9, 2007.
12:30pm. Room 714

Pretty Delicious: Beautiful Food Gardens
Saturday, March 10, 2007.
2:30pm. Room 714

Swing by the Toronto Botanical Gardens booth (on the 700 level) directly after both presentations where Gayla will be signing books and chatting.

We’ll also have a table at our favourite event of the year, Seedy Saturday Toronto. We’ll be selling books, t-shirts, and other gardening goodies. Bring your extra seeds and trade with us, or just stop by and say hi.

Seedy Saturday Toronto
Sat. March 17, 2007.
10 am -3 pm
Scadding Court Community Centre 707 Dundas St. …

We’ll be travelling to Portland, Oregon next week where Gayla will be speaking at the Yard, Garden, and Patio Show on the topic of growing an edible garden in just about any environment.

When: Sat. Feb. 24 (at 3:30pm) & Sun. Feb 25 (at 11:00 am).

YARD, GARDEN & PATIO SHOW

Growing Incredible Edibles Anywhere and Everywhere: Your patio, balcony, or fire-escape is a potential garden of exciting flavors and beautiful colors waiting to happen. Learn the ins and outs of growing herbs, veggies, and flowers organically in challenging urban environments.

Yes! Goodbye 2001! We have finally redesigned and reorganized the Fluffco site after literally years of neglect. Okay, so in some ways it’s more of an upgrade than a redesign but we’re very glad for it just the same.

This reawakening also means that we intend to actually use this site to tie together the variety of websites, activities, services, products, and artwork that all gather under the Fluffco umbrella.

This blog will also be used with greater frequency so pull the feed into your reader of choice and stay tuned.

Davin Risk & Gayla Trail

Gayla will be giving two You Grow Girl book events this Sunday, Jan 14. in Hamilton, ON.

11:30am - Book Signing at Mixed Media Art
1pm & 3pm - Presentation on Growing Food Organically at the Royal Botanical Gardens.

More at You Grow Girl