FAQ

Who are you guys and why did you start this site? The 23-year-old nonprofit organization Farm Aid founded HOMEGROWN.org with the mission of creating a place where our love for food and the land evolves, deepens, and becomes something more fulfilling. A place where we can hear and appreciate the bigger stories that our food has to share – and connect to the source of our food: the land, the seeds, the bounty, the cycles of nature and the grower: The family farm. Where we see the connections between good soil, good growers, good taste, and good times. Where the source of our food doesn’t feel like a stranger, but a fun and friendly neighbor - where people are growing it, brewing it, preserving it, baking it, fermenting it, building it themselves. HOMEGROWN.org is a place where we can learn from each other, share our questions, and show off how we dig in the dirt, grow our own food, work with our hands, and cook and share our meals - all things that we call HOMEGROWN. If you’d like to reach us, you can email the HOMEGROWN Shepherdess, Cornelia through this site or at Cornelia at Farmaid dot org.
How do I communicate with other members? There are a few ways! You can start a general conversation for everyone in the Forums. You can start a discussion with a more specific audience in mind in Groups. You can email any individual or select group of your friends, and you can comment on your friends’ pages – fun!
How do I know if my friends are already on HG.org? Start by looking for a group near you – you may find some new friends. Advanced search lets you search by name, interest and geographically - just be sure to put the state or city that you are looking for in quotation marks - ie: "CO" for Colorado, or "Portland" for a city. You can also have fun just searching random words and see who shows up.
What is “My Page” all about? Your page is your chance to tell others about yourself and your interests. Feel free to keep updating your page with new and interesting information – especially “Latest greatest meal cooked at home” and “My latest DIY project”.
Blog - You can start a blog on your page or link to an existing one. To link to an outside blog, simply click the RSS button at the very bottom of your page and enter the url of the site.
Friends – click on your friends’ pages every once in while to see what’s new with their pages. Add a comment, invite them to join a group or discussion you’re digging, maybe even get to know their friends – it’s just like Kindergarten recess, but with better soil!
Show and tell with photos and video – are you especially proud of a meal you made? Post a pic! Do you troll YouTube to find the weird and wonderful? Link it up!
Redecorating - Try moving around the different chunks of information on your page. For example, if you are using the RSS feed to bring your blog to your page, you can move it from the sidebar to the center area – try it, you might just like it!
Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Want to get involved? Contact Cornelia - at - FarmAid dot org - or send a message through her page here