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In the fall of 2011, Les jardiniers à bicyclette got their second mascot (the first was Hano Hane, the bird in the logo). His name’s Akamatsu and you can read all about him here.
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At the beginning of October, 2011, Les jardiniers à bicyclette bought a 1989 Volkswagen Vanagon that ran on waste vegetable oil (WVO) instead of gasoline. With it, they toured around North America to start up branches of the company in other parts of the continent as The Bike Gardeners.
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August 31, 2011: we appeared live on the TV show Des kiwis et des hommes with our infamous bike trailer.
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On July 12, 2011, we appeared in La Presse...in the sports section!
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On April 13, 2011, we were interviewed by Dave Bronstetter on
All in a Weekend. Listen to it here.
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On September 15, 2010, at CEGEP Saint-Laurent (a college in Montreal), Ian Christopher Goodman was a speaker at the conference called “Malades au Vélo” (“Crazy about Bikes”). He described what it was like to work using a bicycle.
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During the summer of 2010, Les jardiniers à bicyclette traveled the world (in a sense). An article about us was written in the Italian magazine called Gardenia. You can view it here.
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July 1, 2010: Happy Canada Day!
We were on CTV News.
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On June 14, 2010, we appeared on CBC radio. Listen to it here:
(Photo of Elias Abboud, Ian Christopher Goodman)
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On May 23, 2010, we were proud to be a part of MEC’s (Mountain Equipment Co-op's) Bikefest, doing workshops, having contests and giving away free seeds that were in pots made from newspaper.