{"id":252,"date":"2011-08-26T11:43:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T16:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2011-08-26T11:50:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T16:50:24","slug":"invitation-to-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/26\/invitation-to-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Invitation to the Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NtxInfo.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"253\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/26\/invitation-to-the-community\/ntxinfo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NtxInfo.png?fit=390%2C288&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"390,288\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NtxInfo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NtxInfo.png?fit=390%2C288&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-253\" title=\"NtxInfo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NtxInfo-300x221.png?resize=300%2C221\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NtxInfo.png?resize=300%2C221&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NtxInfo.png?w=390&amp;ssl=1 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reason this website was created was to bring local vegetable growers together in an online community. \u00a0There is lots to be learned by sharing and interacting with others! \u00a0The best tool I know of for this is an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_forum\">Internet forum<\/a>. \u00a0(click link if you are unfamiliar to learn more) \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/forum\/\">North Texas Vegetable Gardeners forum<\/a> is organized in a way that makes finding information easy, and all the posts are stored and searchable for the\u00a0benefit\u00a0of future visitors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NTVGcommunity.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"254\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/26\/invitation-to-the-community\/ntvgcommunity\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NTVGcommunity.png?fit=363%2C208&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"363,208\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NTVGcommunity\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NTVGcommunity.png?fit=363%2C208&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-254\" title=\"NTVGcommunity\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NTVGcommunity-300x171.png?resize=300%2C171\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NTVGcommunity.png?resize=300%2C171&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NTVGcommunity.png?w=363&amp;ssl=1 363w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A special section of the forum is the &#8216;Community Section&#8217;. \u00a0It is dedicated to smaller groups of people such as garden clubs who want a special place to interact with each other to discuss their common interest or would like to have a place for others on the forum to find them. \u00a0(the community boards can be public or private) \u00a0If you would\u00a0benefit\u00a0from a community board for your group, please contact me in the comments section, I&#8217;ll be happy to create one for you as long as it fits within the goals of the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason this website was created was to bring local vegetable growers together in an online community. \u00a0There is lots to be learned by sharing and interacting with others! 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