Made in Oklahoma

It was Larry and Lane's turn to man our booth at the state fair. While they were there, a woman from the Department of Agriculture who was working the MIO (Made in Oklahoma) booth stopped by. She had heard from the Valley View Pecan Co. people to check out our "MIO" product.

She said that she liked our product and invited us to have a booth at the Department of Agriculture farmers market. It is held each Tuesday in the DOA parking lot from noon to 5:00.

By the way, I loved the MIO booth at the fair. There are some really great products that are exclusive to Oklahoma. Plus, I love how the booth was decorated. I love the old plaid thermos bottles, picnic baskets and wooden ice cream makers. It brings back good memories from my childhood.

Anyway, we had some errands to run today and decided to stop by the DOA to check on attending the farmers market next Tuesday. One thing led to another and we were able to meet with the lady that Larry met at the fair. She is over the Made in Oklahoma products at the DOA. She introduced us to the head of the Farm to School program, the head of the Ag in the Classroom program and the head of the Plasticulture farming program. We were able to spend some time with Micah, the head of the Plasticulture program and learn about how he farms. He said our product certainly qualified as plasticulture...lol. It's made of plastic. 







As we were leaving the building, Micah showed us his garden in front of the DOA building. There were impressive stands of okra, a thick row of kale, tomatoes, corn and sweet potatoes. He was even growing cotton. I couldn't help but think of the lady that bought boxes from us at the fair who wanted to grow cotton in a GAB.

We hope that through the contacts that we made today, we will some day be able to share Garden Anywhere Box with students and teachers and show them a different way to garden. We still have a dream of our Garden Anywhere Bus and traveling around to schools with our portable garden. Garden Anywhere Box-No Weeding. Self-watering. Portable. 

We plan to be at the DOA farmers market next Tuesday. Stop by and say hi.