Directory

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  |  Educators |  Food Preservation  |  Food Safety & Handling  |  Gardening with Disabilities  |  Gardening How-To Overview  |  K-12 Curricula  |  Land Access  |  Mushroom Cultivation  |  Orchard care  |  Plant Propagation & Grafting  | Plant Schedule & Seed Starting |  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

• What is aquaponics

• Victoria Compost Education Centre has fact sheets

• Video about Johnson Su Bioreactor

• ILSR’s NYC Master Composter Manual

• Compost Now

• Edible Weeds

  • Mallory O’Donnell How to Cook a Weed

• 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

• Canning

  • Ball/Kerr site

  • National Center for Food Preservation

  • Utah State Extension – 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

• 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

• 5 ways to make a wheelchair accessible garden

• Kids Gardening Accessible Gardens

• Mentor the Garden Mentor books, Facebook page, Facebook group

• MOFGA -GYOOG, short course materials

• Kohala Center curriculum

• Oregon Master Gardener Vegetable Course

• Planet Whizbang, YouTube channel

• Self Sufficient Me, YouTube channel

• Edible Acres, YouTube

• Oregon State University garden, PDF catalog

• Homestead and Chill, web site, free planner pdf

• Sustainable Food Center:  Citizen Gardener 52

• Suburban Homestead, YouTube channel

• Lovely Greens – How To Grow a Rapid Response Victory Garden

• Attainable Sustainable

• Grow, Forage, Cook, Ferment

• Permaculture Women’s Guild Free Online Course, web course, weekly lesson deliveries

• The Holistic Gardening Handbook, free book download

• 7 Habits of Highly Productive Gardens, web article

• Home Gardening (Cornell Cooperative Extension)

• Emily Becker | Artists & Writers Workshop — Plants

• Solar One Green Design Lab – Green Tech

• Edible Schoolyard

• Laney Siegner – curriculum on Climate Change and Food systems for grades 6-12

• The Kohala Center’s curriculum map

• Land For Good — Toolbox for Farm Seekers

• New England Farmland Finder

• NY Farmland Finder

• 596 Acres, NYC, NY

• Mushroom Mountain

• DIY Fungi’s how-to Handouts

• Cornell Small Farm Extension: Specialty Mushroom

• Philadelphia Orchard Project’s Resource page

• Backyard Fruit Growers

• Growing Fruit Forum

• SkillCult Youtube channel

• Dividing vegetative perennials, video

• Johnny’s Seeds planting calculator

• Homestead and Chill, PDF calendar for each planting zone

• Hudson Valley Seed Library spring planting guide
  

• Solar Mapping

• Growing in the shade

• video – Understanding soil types and textures, jar test

• article – How To Improve Garden Soil

• article – Preparing Garden Soil

• USDA Soil Textural Triangle, diagram, creative commons license

• video – UC Davis – Soil Texture By Feel, video

• Dr. Elaine Ingham’s soil-food web

• book – Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations

• book – The Hidden Half of Nature

• book – Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life

• article – Testing Your Soil pH Without a Kit
  

• Milkwood Permaculture’s sheet mulching primer

• manual – Lead-safe Yard

• video – Ecosystem Restoration Deep Dive with Leila Darwish

• Fungi For the People Mycoremediation

• podcast, articles, videos – No Till Growers

• video – Charles Dowding no till gardening

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If you are located in a suburban area and have skills to share, email us at CooperativeGardens@gmail.com

• 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

  • How To Regrow Food In Water

  • Free Square Foot Gardening Cheat Sheets

  • Rob Greenfield’s Food is Free demonstration garden tour

  • Growing Potatoes in Towers – Small Space Potato Planters – 3 minute video

last update: February 5, 2021