The Veggie Vision Blog

Hey everybody,

Karin, asked me last week if I'd post something up on the blog, and of course I said I would. In fact i've been wanting to post a story of some sort up here for a long time.

I'm Ket, and I work on the tech and website for veggie vision. There are tons of things going on behind the scenes including Karin working like mad to keep bringing great competitions to everyone and organising new clips to watch.

There are some exiting things on the horizon for Veggie Vision. There have been many planned upgrades/changes and jobs that have nearly happenned over the last few years. This has helped us grow and bring all the experiences together to do something really cool, with VV. Stay tuned.

I've been in the garden with my partner digging up potatoes today. We have a small Vegan Organic Garden patch and its so cool to be able to "grow your own".

We have an abundance of Rocket growing, but we wish the Potatoes, Garlic and Beans produced more. Oh, we have tomaotes on their way and a mango stone has started to grow into a tree !! Although I think it'll be near impossible for us to grow it in this part of the world (anyone with a huge greenhouse ?).

SO enjoy the rest of the weekend, Please check out the new and excellent, Veggie Pride clip on Veggie Vision (look in the Roving Reports Channel) , and take part in the current competition if you haven't already.

Hi!

I wanted to drop you a line as I am doing my radio show again and am pre recording a show this Thursday from 7 – 9 pm – they are usually live.

I am dedicating this show to bringing up your kids as vegan / veggie and would love as many veggies to be in touch over the phone or by email

If you know of anyone bringing up their kids as vegan/veggie, vegan/veggie kids or pregnant vegans it would be great to hear from them too as I want the show to be jammed packed with how others have done this successfully

Pls pass this on and email me ASAP!

Thanks and hope to hear back soon

Vegan wishes  Karin x
Karin Ridgers

www.VeggieVision.co.uk
Internet TV Veggie Style - Entertaining and Promoting 24/7

The future depends on what we do in the present. - Mahatma Gandhi 

Wow – what a show – We are still recovering and the Bristol Vegan Fayre was now last weekend!

Please do drop us a line if you took any film clips as we would love to see them.  

We had a super time, how wonderful to see so many likeminded people- and it was great that so many viewers came up and said hi as well. 

We welcome all of the new people that signed up or took flyers away – thanks so much for your support – there is much more coming soon to VeggieVision. 

We had an amazing team of presenters and film crew who worked flat out as well as a super bunch of helpers that worked on the stall. We prepared about 150 goody bags for all the stall holders as well and that took a lot of time as we had so much to give away! 

Can you believe that we were in a vegan fayre and I wasn’t able to eat! I was tooo excited! I did fall in love though – did you have those amazing vegan cream eggs – I bought several bulk orders. And those vegan trifles )  Yum! 

If we filmed with you we will let you know as soon as possible about the content – it is for the new look so please bear with us.

We had such a great time and look forward to being at many more events this year. If you would like to get involved please let us know! 

Thanks again to all of the super VeggieVision team and for your positive feedback – It really inspired us to move forward.

Have a great day and spk soon

Karin and the VeggieVision team. Xxx

Quote of the day:

Well we are all set for The Bristol Vegan Fayre this weekend – If you are heading over please come and say hi - and we will always welcome any help! 

The fab VeggieVision presenters are: 

Kamuran Kavaz ,Sally McIlhone, Caron Stace , Catherine Alice Turner, Rose Glover & John Chiver  

Our VeggieVision camera people & team are: 

James Richardson, Anthony Aurelius, Dan Thurley, Debbie Driver & Eva Petelina 

What a fantastic team! Thanks guys!! 

+ Thanks to those who have said they have missed the inspirational quotes I send out! I will do my best to send you more – here’s a cool one for now from the worlds cleverest veggie: 

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Hey!

Can we be the first to wish you a super fab National Veggie Week!

Please do drop us  line if you are having an event or doing something for the special week - and even better if you can grab a camcorder and film it for other VeggieVision viewers too!

Its been a crazy week as we prepare for the coming Bristol Vegan Fayre - please do come and say hi if you are heading over - and please do come and help on our stall if you can! We have been in touch with some great veggie presenters so the cameras will be rolling at the fayre.

You may know that we are doing some of the PR for the event too and have got the lovely Tim Barford many radio interviews - and top of that Karin was asked to get involved with the wonderful Swedish Glace and their fab veggie survey - so Karin did 15 radio interviews promoting veggie stuff in one morning! How cool is that!! And yes we were told she was as up beat for the 15th as she was the first!

As well as working flat out on tons of VeggieVision stuff we constantly strive to promote veganism as much as we can and have enjoyed a lot of local and national media recently - we will add this to the new site asap.

Anyway we wish you a super National Veggie Week and lets get those veggie seeds planted!

LOL, as always from all the team xxxxxxxx

We have put together this easy to read report that aims to help you get started with ways of promoting vegetarianism and veganism in a fun and professional way. We hope that you enjoy and with National Veggie Week fast approaching take action too!

Media! How to reach 1000’s of people!  

Starting off

Create your own local media contact list – full journalists & newspapers names, addresses, phone no’s, fax no’s , if poss e mail. – This can be made from buying local papers, looking in Yellow Pages, ask family & friends – they may know about a  newsletter – ect that you don’t. Check out www.mediauk.com 

Journalists want an interesting story –something great for their readers. Don’t think that they are against you. It’s not a them & us. Local media are less likely to be aggressive/ controversial than national media – however be aware of over friendly journalists – always know that they are a journalist – not a friend who wants to sit and chat! The interview isn't over until the phone is put down or you have left the building!! 

Remember you are helping them by providing an interesting story or idea.  

Be polite, friendly, happy, confident – SMILE! Even when on the phone! )  ) )  

You are all vegans to them – maybe the first or only vegan they have met –

BE A GREAT ADVERT FOR VEGANISM – Go against the stereo typical image of a vegan.  

Aim that they remember you – for good reasons! They will come back to you when they need a quote or information.  

Get to know the journalists, find out if any are veggie or ‘sympathetic’ – they will usually tell you.

Part 2 coming soon - and more too!

Veggie wishes Karin x

We have been nominated as one of the best vegan publications in the world!

Now to be honest all of the publications that have been nominated are great and well all know each other well so we feel that we are all winners! We would be mega happy and really grateful if you could stop for a second and give the VeggieVision team your vote (you can vote monthly and could win some cool Yaoh goodies too).

When the guys are I are up till 3am working hard on VeggieVision we will think of your vote and really get motivated!!

Please vote for us here!! (We are the last to be listed)

Thanks sooooooooo much!

Vegan wishes K x

Thanks to everyone who entered the Jason Vale competition & the LitePod competition a while back – and great to get our FaceBook friends entering too! Here are the best juice and smoothie entries & I hope that you like them as much as we did.

Hazel Rea is the winner of the LitePod with thanks to www.sad.uk.com

Silvia Mariani is the winner of the Jason Vale goodies with thanks to www.juicemaster.com

Please check out the current competition to win fab vegan goodies from Venture Foods (You have to scroll the comp page down to enter)

Have a great weekend!

Veggie wishes

Karin x

www.veggievision.com

Carry on reading to see the Juices and Smoothies recipes…...................

Hiya!

Happy New Year

I hope that you had a fab Veggie Christmas – such a big build up and its over before you know it!

It’s early in the New Year but already lots on the go with VeggieVision. I was over the moon that Channel 5 asked me to film something about having a veggie Christmas and even happier that it went out on Christmas day – Pls do let me know if you saw it.

Our presenter in Thailand has made a super programme – that will be added soon and the Skinny Bitch clip (as read by Victoria Beckham!) is getting lots of attention on the VeggieVision You Tube and FaceBook sites

There are tons of ways to keep in touch now so maybe these are of interest – If so please do sign up!

You Tube, Facebook and My Space:


A brand new VeggieVision Channel on You Tube - www.youtube.com/veggievision

Karin shares - www.youtube.com/Kazvegan


Please do link up to us if you are on any of these social networks and join in with discussions.

My Space - www.myspace.com/veggievision

FaceBook - www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6376552348



Well here’s to a fantastic 2008 – and hoping that you will help us make VeggieVision bigger and better

LOL n stuff

Karinx

PS Thanks to those who said that they liked the VeggieVision Christmas card - We love to hear all feedback xx