HINGHAM, Mass. - s4story -- We are so happy to announce that Food Gardening Network recently received the 2024 Media Awards Silver Laurel Medal of Achievement for Magazine for Consumer or Trade, presented by GardenComm: Garden Communicators International.

This national award recognizes individuals and companies who achieve the highest levels of talent and professionalism in garden communications. The 2024 competition had 126 entries in 39 possible categories. Recipients of the Silver Medal represent the best in their category and will now compete for Gold Medals in their category.

Food Gardening Network received the Silver Laurel Medal of Achievement for our March 2023 issue, aptly titled "The Dirt Issue".

"The GardenComm Media Awards showcase writers, photographers, editors, videographers, social media managers, publishers, and trade companies that have demonstrated excellence in garden communications in print or electronic communications," says C.L. Fornari, president of GardenComm.

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Since the early 1980s, the GardenComm Media Awards program has recognized outstanding writing, photography, graphic design and illustration for books, newspaper stories, magazine articles and other works focused on gardening. GardenComm, Garden Communicators International, is an organization of professional communicators in the green and garden industry including book authors, bloggers, staff editors, syndicated columnists, free-lance writers, photographers, speakers, landscape designers, television and radio personalities, consultants, publishers, extension service agents and more.

The full list of winners will be available on the GardenComm website following the 2024 Annual Honors & Awards event on August 28^th at 6:30 pm ET held in conjunction with the GardenComm Annual Conference presented by Proven Winners® ColorChoice®, August 26-30.

We are so proud to accept this award and would like to extend a giant THANK YOU to all of our loyal readers. Your input and feedback help us to create better content. Hopefully we are able to bring home the Gold for you!