After layoffs, pay cuts and other cost reduction measures, Twisted Limb Paperworks in Bloomington, invested in a vegetable garden as an employee benefit. This benefit is on the rise at other businesses, says the Wall Street Journal's online edition. Read the entire article.

What has your company done to supplement or mitigate cost-cutting measures?

These are a few of the comments written on the evaluations yesterday (Saturday) after our Green Scene event, Greening your Outdoor Space. This first ILG Green Scene was sponsored by Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. (KIBI) which hosted the morning program. Six topics were offered in short presentations from 9- noon. They included: Natural Lawn by Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, editor of Indiana Living Green; Jerome Delbridge, KIBI,  Trees and NeighborWoods as well as  Rain Barrels; Ron Lauster,  Marion Co. Soil and Water Conservation District,  Rain Gardens; Ben Mannies, JF New, Native Plants and Natural Habitast, and yours truly, touting my favorite topic, Chemical-Free gardening as well as Composting. (Contact info is below).

Information and resources from a dozen organizations and companies were also present, talking with attendees and sharing info, including:

Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc.  
Marion Co. Soil and Water Conservation District
JF New
Native Plants Unlimited
TuwA 
Worms Way
Green Piece Indy
Cit E Scapes
Green Way Supply   
GreenCycle
INPAWS  
Hamilton Co. SWCD
IOGA

At TreeHugger.com today, Jayme Heimbuch of San Francisco, covers a talk by Mark Frauenfelder of Make Magazine and his seven principles of urban farming:

• Grow only useful things
• Grow what is appropriate for your regional weather conditions.
• Build your soil.
• Water deeply but less frequently.
• Work with nature not against it
• Be prepared for failure.
• Pay attention to what’s happing in your garden and keep notes.

Here's the full article.