Tiffany Washko

Just a few days ago I went live with a brand new web site/blog. It is a raw food blog called Goddess of the Garden. On this blog I will be discussing one my my fave topics…the raw foods, living foods, sunfoods, movement. It will have my experiences, my favorite foods, pictures, informational articles, and reviews of books and kitchen gadgets. So if this topic interests you be sure to stop by and subscribe to the RSS feed.

It is actually kind of interesting how I came to own the domain. Several years ago when I owned a cloth diaper company and store there was a really awesome “club” called Goddess of the Garden. Basically WAHMs joined and donated some of their wares every month. The donations were pooled together and offered as prizes to those who purchased a Goddess membership. Their membership which cost $5 a month entitled them to 10% off at all the wahm stores and they were entered to win the prizes. Each time they shopped and use their membership code they were entered again. The membership dues were then taken and used to buy advertising for all the WAHMs in the group.

It was really an awesome program and brought a lot of business my way. I always LOVED the name Goddess of the Garden and I loved the graphics that we had made for it using the advertising money. The woman growing out of the grass just appealed to me. Anyway…long story short the domain holder up and sold the site one day and really made the WAHMs who had helped build it to what it was very angry. The site went to someone who wanted to continue on in the same vein but everyone involved was so upset they walked away and the site just died. The site made a brief transition into a blog/forum…but it didn’t go anywhere so there it sat alone and lonely for a couple years.

When I became interested in raw foods about 6 months or so ago I knew I should start a raw food blog. That niche is exploding right now and will continue to do so. But what should my domain be? I briefly set up a blog on my naturemoms.com domain but I just didn’t “feel” it, ya know? Then I remembered the Goddess of the Garden. Woot! The raw foods diet is often referred to to as the garden diet because it primarily consists of food you pick fresh from a garden. It was PERFECT!

So I contacted the owner and asked if she would sell it to me. The price was pretty steep for a site which had virtually nothing on it but I knew what the graphics had cost to have hand drawn so after one counter offer we had a deal. Now the Goddess is mine and I am having a blast with it so far.

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