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Spring 2017 East Tennessee Plant Swap

brandon7 TN_zone7

7 years ago

The Spring 2017 East Tennessee Plant Swap will be held at New Harvest
Park, 4775 New Harvest Lane, Knoxville TN 37918 on Saturday, May 13, 2017. Swapping begins at 10:00am (no exchanges before that, please). We
will have a pot-luck lunch at 11:30am. Please make plans
now to come join the fun on swap day! As always, new gardeners are
especially invited to attend. There are always plenty of plants in need
of good homes, fellow friendly plant addicts excited about trading, and
the best food around. Even if you don't have much to offer for trade,
PLEASE come, make new friends, and be prepared to leave with lots of
awesome stuff!
The swap is entirely free and absolutely nothing will be sold, but it
does cost the coordinators a little to reserve the park and pay for
hosting services for the website. A donation of two or three dollars per
person, with a maximum of five dollars per family, would help us cover
these expenses.
Find more details about the swap at the website, www.easttnplantswap.com. Unfortunately, our normal Swap Forum on that website is temporarily down due to website maintenance. We hope to have it up soon. I hope to see you at the swap!

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brandon7 TN_zone7
Original Author

7 years ago

Our website is down right now. We removed it from GoDaddy (thank goodness, because GoDaddy is the most dreadful hosting service of any I am aware). We have a new hosting site, but I haven't had time to get the site reloaded. I have a lot going on right now, but will try to get it back up and running soon.

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nataneko
7 years ago
is the website still down or my pc is having problem?
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brandon7 TN_zone7
Original Author
7 years ago
No, it's the website. I have been absolutely swamped lately and haven't had time to work on it. I am hoping to have some time this coming week. Sorry.
brandon7 TN_zone7
Original Author
7 years ago
The website is back up and going. The Swap Forum is also working, but everyone will have to re-register and all the old data is lost. I went to very great efforts to try to keep the old data, but was unfortunately unable to do so (more details can be found on the website, if you want to know more).

I hope everyone will re-register! The site's email functions are not working yet, so please be patient and I will try to approve users ASAP (at least once per day).
joannacb
7 years ago
are you all on facebook?
brandon7 TN_zone7
Original Author
7 years ago
Well, kind of. We merged with / absorbed a smaller plant swap group a few years back. That group had a facebook page, and we do use that facebook page as one means of making announcements. However, the group is moderated by someone else (Margot) now and has a lot of other activity. It's called Plant Swap Knoxville.

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