The excitement this early fall began on a Facebook page and quickly became a blog that resulted in interest and eventually the development of a new Grange in Minnesota!!
TJ Malaskee, a first year employee of the Kelley Farm took Oliver Kelley's vision to heart and began to contact his friends using social media (and they contacted their friends, and so on and so on) until over 180 people had expressed interest in a new Minnesota Grange!
An information meeting held at the Kelley Farm quickly turned into an organizational meeting and a new Grange was born!!
The truly exciting thing about this new Grange is that none of them had heard of the Grange before, but the ideas and purpose of the Grange was relevant to a new generation!
A second exciting incident occurred recently at Lake Hubert Grange, where they received two new members. These two had been coming to several events in the past, and once they were asked to join, they did so quite joyfully!
While most of our current Grange members are not on Facebook or use other social media, what we can learn from the newest Grange and from lake Hubert Grange, is that members only become members if we ask them! Whether on Facebook or face to face, invite your friends, family and total strangers to be part of the Grange.
Let's keep this momentum going!
By Ann Bercher from the Minnesota Grange Gleaner, Fall Issue, September 2012
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