Diary of Orrin Brown, Savannah, Georgia Thursday–Jan. 12th We left camp at about 6.30 and were marched down to the city and worked on the breastworks. The 2nd Brigs. of our div. mooved down to the City and went into camp there. We had a pretty cold night last night and a heavy frost this […]
Diary of Orrin Brown—Jan 8, 1865
Diary of Orrin Brown, Savannah, Georgia Sunday–Jan 8th We found the ground white with frost again this morning and ice in the numerous mudholes around our camp. We were on the road about 7 Oclock marched out 7 miles and haulted about 10 AM behind a line of breastworks. There is quite a chilly wind […]
Diary of Orrin Brown—Dec 19, 1864
Diary of Orrin Brown— Monday–Dec. 19th We had a nice warm night to stand Picket and it is so warm today that the boys all feel like hunting for a shady place to sit down in. I borrowed a V. B. C. Advocate of a fellow in our Company last night and have improved my […]
GrowFL Adapts and Grows Itself
A quick follow-up to earlier posts regarding the cutting-edge (bleeding edge?) GrowFL state-wide economic gardening program. A news story tweeted by consultant Eric Canada notes that: The gardening program is proactive, rather than reactionary, allowing economic development councils to have a more nurturing role, helping businesses grow instead of just waiting for it to happen. The […]
You Don’t Know What You Have Until It Is Gone (#EconDev Edition)
[v=rnX9ScL6LLw] Noted on the Economic Gardening mailing list: GrowFL Participant Credits Economic Gardening Program for Helping Secure Major Defense Contract Cocoa-based Coastal Steel Inc. Will Add More Than 55 Jobs as a Result of Contract with Lockheed Martin FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jul 12, 2011 – COCOA, Fla. – Thanks in part to the entrepreneurial ecosystem cultivated […]
Florida Gov Plows Under Economic Gardening Project
In one of those too-strange-to-be-true coincidences, Florida Governor Rick Scott vetoed funding for the state’s cutting edge UCF GrowFL economic gardening program. This hard on the heals of the National Economic Gardening Conference held at UCF last month. The Daytona Beach News-Journal carried some reactions: Economic gardening is a new approach and alternative to traditional […]
National Economic Gardening Conference
News Release For Immediate Release ANNUAL NATIONAL ECONOMIC GARDENING CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN ORLANDO MAY 19/20 Attendees Will Learn How to Develop Viable Programs to Help Strengthen Their Communities, Regions and States (Orlando, FL) — The Florida Economic Gardening Institute in conjunction with the University of Central Florida will host the 9th Annual National […]