Useful Sites & Sources


Gardening Blogs:

Seeds, seeds, and more seeds:
Victory Seeds
Wood Prairie Family Farm

Fruits:
DeGrandchamp Farms
Nourse Farms
Raintree Nursery

Seed Freedom:
Declaration on Seed Freedom
Monsanto-free seed companies - list originally provided by Occupy Monsanto, but discovered on 07-Feb-2014 that their web domain has expired (OccupyMonsanto360.org). 
Occupy Monsanto 
Safe Seed Resource List - provided by Council for Responsible Genetics (CRG)
Safe Seed Company List - provided by Farm Wars

Gardening Tools and Supplies:
Drip Works
Fresh Start
Gothic Arch Greenhouses
Red Pig Garden Tools
Santa Barbara Greenhouses
Texas Metal Sisterns

Uncle Jim's Worm Farm
A list of tool-lending libraries around the world

Weeds, the Soil, and Weed Identification
The Language of Weeds by way of the Chicago Botanic Gardens web site.
Weed Identification by way of the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) web site.
WEEDS: Don't Shoot the Messenger by Av Singh
Weeds: Guardians of the Soil by Joseph A. Cocannouer

Look to the Weeds by way of homestead.org
Soil Science Society of America
Soil cultivation and Tillage in Organic Agriculture by way of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Miscellaneous Smartness:
American Community Gardening Association (ACGA) - Community Gardens by State, 
Discover Life - caterpillar, moth, bee, ant, and snake identification (to name a few possibilities!)
UCCE - Starting a Community Garden
ACGA - Tools and Sample Forms for community garden start-up
BottlesUp
Build It Solar
Butterflies and Moths of North America
Find Good Food at Homegrown - A resource to find local farms, farmers markets, co-ops, meat processors, CSAs, and more.
Institute for Responsible Technology
Local Harvest - Find local farmers markets, CSAs, farms, events, and more.
National Weather Service - Freeze/Frost Maps
Non-GMO Project
Spiders.us - An international spider community with a North American focus.
ThePrayingMantis.org
The Urban Farmer, Curtis Stone
The Urban Farming Guys

Seed Libraries:
Richmond Grown Seed Lending Library
The Seed Library Social Network

Publications:
Acres U. S. A.
Fine Garden-=ing
Heirloom Gardener
Modern Farmer
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners by Suzanne Ashworth
The Cut Flower Quarterly
The Heirloom Life Gardener by Jere and Emilee Gettle

Books:
The Backyard Homestead by Carleen Madigan
The Plant Lover's Guide to Dahlias by Andy Vernon
The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals by Gail Damerow (and others)
Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City by Eric Toensmeier with contribution by Jonathan Bates
Eric Toensmeier's website
The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone
The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture by Christopher Shein
Epic Tomatoes by Craig LeHoullier






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