A work-in-progress list pulled together by our Education Working Group. Have a favorite of your own? Please share via email for inclusion on this directory, or suggestions. We’re especially looking to expand our regional section, whether by bio-region, state or major city.
Aquaponics | Composting | Cooking | Cover Crops | Educators | Food Preservation | Food Safety | Gardening with Disabilities | Gardening Specifics | Gardening How-To Overview | K-12 Curricula | Land Access | Mushroom Cultivation | Orchard care | Plant Propagation & Grafting | Plant Schedule | Quick Start List | Regional Resources | Rural Farming | Saving Seeds | Seed Sources | Site Selection | Soils | Soil Building / Sheet Mulching | Soil Contaminated / Eco-remediation | Soil / No till Management | Suburban Farming | Urban Farming
Aquaponics
Composting
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Victoria Compost Education Centre has fact sheets
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Video about Johnson Su Bioreactor
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ILSR’s NYC Master Composter Manual
Cooking
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Edible Weeds
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Mallory O’Donnell How to Cook a Weed
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Cover Crops
Educators
- Ben Falk of Whole Systems Health
- the ROOTS school
- Mark Krawczyk of Keyline Vermont
- Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm
- https://youtu.be/StygQm6YlwQ
- Leah presenting at Stone Barns
- How it started, moves from Urban to Rural & feeding folk
Food Preservation
- Canning
- Root cellars
- Post about root cellar alternatives
- Root Cellars 101
- Chapter from Carol Deppe’s The Resilient Gardener
- Pickling
- Wild Fermentation site
- The books of Sherri Brooks Vinton (canning, preserving, pickling)
- 10 Fresh Produce Items With a Long Shelf Life
Food Safety and Handling, especially now
- CoVID19 Food Safety Resources
- PASA CoVID 19 Guidelines for Farmers and Markets
- Community Supported Agriculture COVID Resources
- COVID Resources for California Family Farms
- UCANR Safe Food Handling Practices for Farmstand Customers
- UCANR Guidelines For Preventing The Spread of Infection at The Farm
- UCANR Policies and Procedures for Safe Food Handling During COVID-19 on The Farm
- UCANR Safe Handling Practices for Fresh Produce in a Time of COVID-19
- California Department of Food and Agriculture – Guidance to Prevent The Spread of COVID-19
Gardening with Disabilities
Gardening How-To Overview
- Mentor the Garden Mentor books, Facebook page, Facebook group
- MOFGA -GYOOG, short course materials
- Kohala Center curriculum
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Planet Whizbang, YouTube channel
- Self Sufficient Me, YouTube channel
- Edible Acres, YouTube
- Oregon State University garden, PDF catalog
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Homestead and Chill, web site, free planner pdf
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Sustainable Food Center: Citizen Gardener 52
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Suburban Homestead, YouTube channel
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Lovely Greens – How To Grow a Rapid Response Victory Garden
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Permaculture Women’s Guild Free Online Course, web course, weekly lesson deliveries
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The Holistic Gardening Handbook, free book download
- 7 Habits of Highly Productive Gardens, web article
- Home Gardening (Cornell Cooperative Extension)
K-12 Curricula
- Emily Becker | Artists & Writers Workshop — Plants
- Solar One Green Design Lab – Green Tech
- Laney Siegner – curriculum on Climate Change and Food systems for grades 6-12
- The Kohala Center’s curriculum map
Land Access
- Land For Good — Toolbox for Farm Seekers
- New England Farmland Finder
- 596 Acres, NYC, NY
Mushroom cultivation
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Cornell Small Farm Extension: Specialty Mushroom
Orchard Care
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Philadelphia Orchard Project’s Resource page
Plant Propagation/Grafting
- SkillCult Youtube channel
- Dividing vegetative perennials, video
Planting Schedule & Seed Starting
- Johnny’s Seeds planting calculator
- Homestead and Chill, PDF calendar for each planting zone
- Hudson Valley Seed Library spring planting guide
Quick Start List
- Bed Construction / Preparation
- How To Prepare Garden Soil for Planting in 7 Simple Steps, Morningchores.com
- How to Prepare the Soil for a Vegetable Garden, Wikihow
- Soil Preparation, Texas A&M
- Site Assessment
- 10 Site Assessment Tips, The Edible Academy
- Site Assessment, University of Rhode Island
- Reusing Potentially Contaminated Landscapes: Growing Gardens in Urban Soils, EPA
- Soil Assessment & Basic Amendments
- 9 Organic Soil Amendments for Growing Vegetables, Tenth Acre Farm
- Choosing a Soil Amendment, Colorado State University Extension
- Soil Amendments & Nutrients, Better Homes & Gardens
- Composting
- 6 Ways to Make Great Compost, Fine Gardening
- Home Composting Methods, The Spruce
- Recommended Tools List
- Basic Garden Tool Set, video by Cooperative Gardens Commission
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Water
Regional Resources
- National
- Land For Good — Toolbox for Farm Seekers
- US Dept of Ag — Cooperative Extension System
- Top 10 Cities, by population size
- New York City, NY
- 596 Acres, NYC, NY
- Los Angeles, CA
- Chicago, IL
- Deep Roots Project, to help you grow incredible homegrown food
- Houston, TX
- Phoenix, AZ
- Philadelphia, PA
- San Antonio, TX
- San Diego, CA
- Dallas, TX
- San Jose, CA
- New York City, NY
- By state
- California
- Butte County Local Food Network
- CropMobster, Nick Papadopoulos, 707.332.9209, nick@cropmobster.com
- Colorado
- Fresh Food Connect | an organization in the Denver area that operates a tech platform to connect home gardeners and community gardens to local hunger-relief organizations in order to capture surplus garden crops and get them to people in need.
- Iowa
- SE Iowa Food Hub, Barbara Stone, Exec Director, barbara@seiowafoodhub.com, 641.919.0307
- Maine
- New England
- New Jersey
- New York
- 596 Acres, NYC, NY
- North Carolina
- Oregon
- Culinary Breeding Network, Oregon State University, Lane Selman, Director, @culinarybreedingnetwork, 503-528-6631
- Pennsylvania
- Food Hedge, PA
- Philly Orchard Project, PA
- Seed distribution center — Please use all best practices before sending seeds in the mail. Wash your hands before touching anything you’ll be sending in the mail. Do not mail seeds if you’re feeling sick. Use regular cardboard if possible (the virus is supposed to survive 24 hours on paper, but 72 hours on plastic). We will be doing the packing at a different location, and plan to let boxes sit for a few days to be safe (they can pick it up in the mail even if they don’t pick it up from you). Please also send empty seed packets, misprints, baggies, etc., if you can spare them. Mail bulk seeds to: Coop Gardens, c/o Tim Siftar, 4621 Cedar Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19143
- West Philly Tool Library
- Texas
- California
Rural Farming
Saving Seeds
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FedCo Seeds – Seed Saving For Beginners
Seed Sources
- Adaptive Seeds, Oregon
- Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
- Burpee
- Cross Country Nurseries
- Experimental Farm Network, New Jersey
- Fedco Seeds
- Food Hedge, Pennsylvania
- Fruition Seeds
- Happy Cat Organics
- Hirt’s Garden
- Hudson Valley Seed
- Johnny’s Seed Company
- Kitazawa Seeds
- Living Seeds
- Migardener
- Mushroom Mountain
- Native Seeds
- Oikos Tree Crops
- Osborne Seed
- PineTree Garden Seed
- Reimer Seeds
- Row 7 Seeds
- Salt Spring Seeds
- Seed Savers Exchange
- Seeds of Change
- Seedway
- Siskiyou Seeds
- Southern Exposure
- Territorial Seed
- Truelove Seeds
- Turtle Tree Seeds
- Uprising Seeds
- Wild Garden Seeds
- Wood Prairie Seed
Site selection
Soils
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video – Understanding soil types and textures, jar test
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article – How To Improve Garden Soil
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article – Preparing Garden Soil
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USDA Soil Textural Triangle, diagram, creative commons license
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video – UC Davis – Soil Texture By Feel, video
- Dr. Elaine Ingham’s soil-food web
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book – The Hidden Half of Nature
- article – Testing Your Soil pH Without a Kit
Soil Building / Sheet Mulching
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Milkwood Permaculture’s sheet mulching primer
Soil Contamination / Eco-remediation
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manual – Lead-safe Yard
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video – Ecosystem Restoration Deep Dive with Leila Darwish
Soil – No-till Management
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podcast, articles, videos – No Till Growers
Suburban Farming
Urban Farming
- Brie Grows, Real farming for real food in your landscape, blog
- Rooting Resilience, Bay Area
- Container & Small Space Resources
- Lovely Greens – How To Grow a Rapid Response Victory Garden
- Rob Greenfield’s Food is Free demonstration garden tour
- Growing Potatoes in Towers – Small Space Potato Planters – 3 minute video
last update: April 27, 2020