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Organic gardening blog
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You can view all Blog posts from our Blog home page. To make a new post or comment on an existing Blog post, you will be asked to login as a Free or Gardener subscriber. If you are not a subscriber, click register at our login box and you will be taken to the registration form. Gardener subscribers can receive announcement of Blog posts to their subscriber home page. All Blog posts will be reviewed by Cityfood Growers for appropriateness before being listed on the web site.
To make a new post to the Blog, login in as a subscriber and go to the Blog home page. You will then see 'New Blog' in the blue left hand column. Click on this link and you can create a new Blog, please choose an appropriate category from the drop down list.
To make a comment on a Blog, also login as a subscriber and under the heading 'Comment on another Blog post' click on the link to 'Blog posting' and you will be taken to the latest Blog posts in chronological order. Open the Blog post and type in your comment under the post and hit 'Add comment'.
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Contact us
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You can contact us by email, phone or post, please visit our Contact page
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Event calendar
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You can view all Event calendar posts from our Event calendar home page. To make a new calendar post, you will be asked to login as a subscriber. Free and gardener subscribers can post to our Event calendar. Make sure you complete all the fields in the Event calendar posting form and then hit submit. All Event calendar posts will be reviewed by Cityfood Growers for appropriateness before being listed on the web site. You can post repeat event on the calendar. Appropriate categories of events are: environmental, food gardening, sustainability, carbon footprint and community/urban agriculture
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Forum
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All web site users can view all posts to the forum. To make a new post or comment on an existing post, you must be logged in as a Free or Gardener subscriber. When you login to post to the Forum for the first time, it is important to visit My control centre. Here you can create your profile of how you want to use the Forum. To make a new post to the Forum, login and select the Forum category and hit New topic. For commenting on existing posts, login, open the Forum post and click on Reply to post and submit. All forum posts will be reviewed for appropriateness before being listing on the web site. The Forum is primarily for any food gardening questions or comments. Gardener subscribers can opt to receive announcements to their email box and subscriber home page for new posts to the forum.
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Lost password
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For Free and Gardener subscribers, where you have lost your password, go to the login box and hit the lost password link under the login box. You will then be taken to a screen and asked for the email address you set up your account with. This is your subscriber ID. Once you enter this and hit submit, you will be sent an email. Open this email and hit the link or paste it into your browser to open. You will then see a form which asks you for a new password (maximum of 6 characters, letters in lower case and numbers). Enter your new password and press submit. You will then be taken back to the site home page and can login with your new password. Please record your password in a safe place, to reduce the potential of loosing it. If you have any issues with the lost password function working, please email us at our Contact page.
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Market usage
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Public site users can view all posts to the Market. Use the selection options to choose post type to help with your search. You must be registered as a Free or Gardener subscriber to contact the poster. Only Gardener subscribers can make posts to the Market and these are unlimited. All posts will be reviewed for appropriateness by Cityfood Growers before being published. Cityfood Growers makes no claims as to the accuracy of the information provided by posters in the market and confirms that it is not selling produce, but purely providing a vehicle for growers to promote their produce or gardening items for sale, trade or swap.
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Moon planting search
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Our moon planting search always uses the current day you are at the home page of our web site, you cannot choose the day yourself. Simply hit 'Go' and you will be shown the grouping of plants suitable for the day of search. This is based on the four quarters of the moon cycle. Plants are grouped into root, leaf, flower/seed and fruit. These groupings are based on the primary part of the plant you eat, for example, a broccoli plant is flower grouping because you eat the flower. The moon has two key points during its four week cycle each month. These are new moon and full moon. Week 1 after new moon is leaf, week two is flower/seed and fruit and week 3 after the full moon is root. Then week 4 is no planting. The logic for the moon planting cycles is based on very old farming principles and is widely used with organic farming and gardening practices.
Biodynamic gardening practices also use the impact of other planets in our solar system and the 12 constellations. It provides a more wholistic view of planetary impacts. You can access the Biodynamic planetary data via our Gardener subscription.
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My account
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Your My account is area is where you manage your contact information and login details. You can also upgrade to Gardener subscriber here once you provide full contact information
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Registering as a subscriber
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Free trial subscriber
A free trial subscriber has full access to our Gardener subscriber site for a period of seven days from the date of completing the Free trial form. During the free trial, all the features of the Gardener subscriber site are accessible. The free trial subscriber will receive an email with login details and once logged, will need to set up their Profile in My account to be able to use all the site features. During the free trial, the free trail subscriber can click on the link “Become a Gardener subscriber” in their My account and make payment by credit card and will then have 12 months access to the Gardener subscriber site.
Only one free trial is available for a person. Once the free trial has completed, the person will be able to login to the free user area of our web site, but will not have access to the gardener subscriber site unless they upgrade via the Become a Gardener subscriber link in their My account.
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Free subscriber
To be a Free subscriber, you must have already completed a free trial of our Gardener subscriber site, your Gardener subscription has expired and you have not renewed or you were an existing Newsletter subscriber in May 2011 before we changed our subscriber structure. unless you where a Newsletter subscriber before in the green login box and this will open a popup box. Free subscribers can post to our forum, blog and event calendar, connect with poster to our market and receive our email newsletter.
Upgrade to a Gardener subscriber
If you intend to upgrade from a Free subscriber to a Gardener subscriber, you must firstly login and then click on 'Become a gardener subscriber' in the green member profile box. You will then be asked to register all your contact information and be taken to a secure credit card payment form where you can make your payment. Complete this payment form and when you receive your email with your payment approval message, logout as a Newsletter subscriber and then log back in again with the same user ID and password, now as a Gardener subscriber. The system will then recognise you as a Gardener subscriber.
Gardener subscriber
Once you have become a free trial subscriber, you can upgrade to a Gardener subscriber during your free trial by clicking “Become a Gardener subscriber” in your My account box after login. You also click on this link in your My account when your free trial has expired. The “Become a Gardener subscriber” page enables you to enter your credit card payment details for an individual Gardener subscription. When your credit card payment is processed, you will receive an onscreen receipt and email confirming if your payment is approved or rejected. If approved, you will need to logut as a free subscriber and log back in again, now as a Gardener subscriber using the same user name and password that you registered with. If your transaction is not approved, please check your credit details and attempt the transaction again. We use secure real time credit card processing, so this should take no longer than 5 seconds. Sometimes, due to network issues in the banking system, this may take longer, so please be patient. Do not press submit more than once on the payment page otherwise your credit card may be charged twice.
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You can receive RSS feeds for any post to our Blog and Forum. You may have a content web site or simply want to keep up to date with new and interesting posts to your browser. To enable RSS feeds, open a category in the Blog or Forum and click on the RSS feeds button for any post in the category. This will generate XML code, which will be in a popup box. Copy and paste this code onto your own web site or your web browser. You will need to have commonly available RSS Aggregator software to read the code and receive any Blogs or forum posts from this category thereafter.
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Site search
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Use our site from any page on the site in our right hand column. Our public web site search looks at all our content on our public and Gardener subscriber sites. Where the search content found is within our Gardener subscriber area, you will see the result, but not be able to open it unless you are a Gardener subscriber. To Search our Forum, use the search function within the Forum.
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Subscriber login
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We have Free and Gardener subscribers. All subscribers must login via our login box which is on every page in the right hand top corner. The top box asks for ID and password. You must enter the email address you set up your account when you established your account. This is your subscriber ID. Then enter your password in the box below. If you have lost your password, you can change this yourself, see Lost password for instructions. If your login is not working, please double check your login details and try again and if this is not successful use our contact form to request assistance.
If you have changed your email address, login with your old email ID and go to the Subscriber personal information screen from My account, scroll down the page and you will see email address with a link to 'Update your email'. Enter your new email address and save. From this point on you can login with your new email ID. It is important to have a valid email ID, otherwise you will not receive an email announcements from our web site.
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