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FOG's 'Cash Mob' event was featured in an Feb. 2, 2012 article in the Gainesville Sun.

FOG's installation of a GIFT Garden at the Boys and Girls Club in Gainesville was featured in an Oct. 27, 2011 article in the Gainesville Guardian.

FOG staff was quoted in an Oct. 17, 2011 article in the Lakeland Ledger.

FOG's social justice efforts were featured in an Oct. 16, 2011 article in The Independent Florida Alligator.

FOG's Harvest Hoedown benefit was featured in a Sept. 26, 2011 video on The Independent Florida Alligator's website.

FOG's specialty crop research project was featured in a Sept. 2011 story in Florida Grower Magazine.

FOG's participation in a lawsuit against Monsanto was included in a June 2011 story on Wisbusiness.com.

FOG was featured in a May 2011 episode of Alachua County Talks.

FOG's Earth Day installation of a GIFT Garden at the Reichert House Youth Academy was featured in a WUFT 89.1 segment April 22, 2011.

FOG Executive Director Marty Mesh featured in the March 21, 2011 article in The Florida Independent about Sen. Jim Norman’s bill banning photography “at or of†Florida farms

Two participants in FOG's Organic Transition Project are profiled in the March 2011 Organic Report in Florida Grower magazine

The Grow Gainesville urban garden network was featured in a March 9, 2011 story in The Gainesville Guardian

FOG's Alachua County Farmers Markets EBT project was featured in an Feb. 3, 2011 story in the Gainesville Guardian

FOG's installation of GIFT Gardens at Gainesville's Eastside High School was featured in a Jan. 27, 2011 story in the Gainesville Guardian

FOG's Alachua County Farmers Markets EBT project was featured in a Jan. 26, 2011 video on the Gainesville Sun's website

FOG's Alachua County Farmers Markets EBT project was featured in a Jan. 25, 2011 story in The Gainesville Sun

FOG's installation of GIFT Gardens at Gainesville's Eastside High School was featured in a Jan. 21, 2011 news feature on WCJB TV20

FOG Executive Director Marty Mesh discussed several FOG projects in a Jan. 5, 2011 interview on Southeast Green's Speaking of Green online radio show

FOG's Alachua County Farmers Markets EBT project was featured in an Dec. 22, 2010 story on GTN News

FOG's Alachua County Farmers Markets EBT project was featured in an Dec. 22, 2010 story on WCJB TV-20

FOG's Composting Workshop at the Alachua County Downtown Farmers Garden was featured in a Dec. 16, 2010 story in the North Florida Herald

FOG's Alachua County Farmers Markets EBT project was featured in an Nov. 11, 2010 story in The Gainesville Guardian

FOG's Alachua County Farmers Markets EBT project was featured in an Nov. 3, 2010 story in The Gainesville Sun

FOG's GIFT Gardens project was featured in an Oct. 12, 2010 segment on WUFT-TV about an installation at Hoggetowne Middle School

FOG's installation of GIFT Gardens at schools in Alachua County was featured in an Oct. 11, 2010 story in Alachua Today

FOG's GIFT Gardens project was featured in an Sept. 29, 2010 segment on WUFT-TV about an installation at Baby Gator Child Care

FOG's GIFT Gardens installation at Stephen Foster Elementary was featured in a Sept. 25, 2010 story in The Gainesville Sun

FOG's installation of the Downtown Farmer's Garden at the Alachua County Administration Building was featured in the August 2010 Alachua County Update

FOG Executive Director Marty Mesh was featured in a July 22, 2010 article in the Miami Herald about Bee Heaven, a QCS-certified entity

FOG's installation of the Downtown Farmer's Garden at the Alachua County Administration Building was featured in an article in The Gainesville Sun July 10, 2010

FOG's installation of the Downtown Farmer's Garden at the Alachua County Administration Building was featured in an Alachua County press release June 28, 2010

FOG Executive Director Marty Mesh was featured in a radio interview June 28, 2010 about the film "What's Organic About Organic?", which he co-produced

FOG's GIFT Gardens project was featured in an May 13, 2010 article in The Gainesville Sun about an installation at the Landmark Holy Temple of God church

FOG's GIFT Gardens project was featured in an April 20, 2010 segment on WUFT-TV about an installation at the City of Gainesville's Thelma Boltin Center on Earth Day 2010

FOG's GIFT Gardens project was featured in an April 21, 2010 article in The Independent Florida Alligator about an installation at the City of Gainesville's Thelma Boltin Center on Earth Day 2010

The Orlando screening of What's Organic About Organic? during the Florida Film Festival was featured in a April 7, 2010 Winter Park/Maitland Observer article

FOG was featured in a April 6, 2010 Santa Fe Sentinel article about the Gainesville Environmental Film and Arts Festival Eco-Fair

The Orlando screening of What's Organic About Organic? during the Florida Film Festival was featured in a April 5, 2010 Orlando Sentinel article

FOG Executive Director Marty Mesh and the Gainesville screening of What's Organic About Organic? during the Gainesville Environmental Film and Arts Festival was featured in a March 23, 2010 Gainesville Sun article

FOG Executive Director Marty Mesh and the Agricultural Justice Project (AJP) were featured in a March 8, 2010 article in The Guardian newspaper

FOG's Alachua County Farmers Markets EBT project was featured in a Feb. 11, 2010, story in The Fine Print

FOG Executive Director Marty Mesh was featured in a Dec. 2, 2009, article in the San Francisco Bay Guardian titled "Out of Reach: How the sustainable local food movement neglects poor workers and eaters"

FOG Executive Director Marty Mesh was featured in a Oct. 2, 2009 article in FirstMonday Magazine titled "Organic Growth"

FOG's GIFT Gardens project was featured in a Oct. 1, 2009 article in the Gainesville Guardian

FOG was featured in a Sept. 22, 2009, Gainesville Sun article about Organic Takeover

FOG's GIFT Gardens and Community Food Planning Projects were featured in a Sept. 17, 2009, Gainesville Sun article

FOG Executive Director Marty Mesh was featured in a Sept. 6, 2009 article in the San Diego Union-Tribune titled "Citrus in peril: Organic farms face particular risk from bug-borne disease"

FOG Executive Director Marty Mesh was interviewed for a July 30, 2009 article in the Huffington Post

Organic Transition Program workshops were featured in an April 2009 article in Citrus + Vegetable Magazine

Organic Transition Program workshops were featured in an April 14, 2009 article in Field & Grove Magazine

The Organic Transition Program was featured in a March 2009 article in Farm and Ranch News

GIFT Gardens was featured in a Dec. 22, 2008 article in the Gainesville Sun entitled "GIFT Gardens helps people get healthy, self-efficient"

Executive Director Marty Mesh appears in documentary "What's Organic About Organic" by Shelley Rogers

Executive Director Marty Mesh was featured in a Nov. 30, 2008 article in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune entitled "Local small farms continue to grow"

FOG was featured in a Nov. 21, 2008 article in HuntingtonNews.net entitled "U.S. Groups, Businesses and Organic Farmers Overwhelmingly Oppose Engineered Papaya "

Outreach Coordinator Matt Vargas discussed the Organic Transition and Pesticide Reduction Program in the Sept. 2008 issue of "Florida Grower" magazine

Outreach Coordinator Matt Vargas was featured in a Sept. 29, 2008 article on the Florida Department of Agricultural and Consumer Services Web site entitled "Earning the Organic Seal of Approval"

Executive Director Marty Mesh was featured in a Aug. 2008 article in Citrus & Vegetable Magazine entitled "An organic dilemma: Small production, big demand"

Executive Director Marty Mesh was featured in a July 30, 2008 article in the Huffington Post entitled "Green Edge 4: Organic Fruit Worth the Premium"

Executive Director Marty Mesh was featured in a Oct. 8, 2006 Associated Press article entitled "UF adds organic agriculture degree as foods gain fame"

Executive Director Marty Mesh was featured in a May 25, 2006 article in BusinessWeek.com entitled "Going Organic: The Profits and Pitfalls"

Executive Director Marty Mesh was featured in a Jan. 27, 2006 article in the Orlando Business Journal entitled "Local growers try to cultivate interest in organic farming"

Executive Director Marty Mesh was featured in a Oct. 1, 2004 article in The Natural Foods Merchandiser entitled "25 People Who Influenced the Organics Industry"