resources

Growit.com. Rooting plants database: enter criteria to find plants with specific characteristics; site also contains a bevy of plant and gardening resource data.

Henriette's Herbal Homepage. One of the oldest and largest herbal information sites on the web.

Homestead Harvest. Preserving the garden's bounty.

Journey to Forever - City Farms International's resource on urban gardening, with links to other community development topics.

Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition

Marion's organic gardening tips and tools

National Association of College and University Food Service

National Farm to School Program

National Gardening Association - Primer for edible landscaping

NE Vegetable Management Guide

NGA - Food Gardening Guide

Organic Gardening

Pride of NY's plethora of resources and links pertaining to many aspects of agriculture, both statewide and national.

USDA's Home Gardening Page

Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners

Vegetable Growing Guides

Weekend Gardener Seed starting home page.

Organic Gardening

National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service

Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, Inc.

Permaculture

Patricia Michael: "Design with a deeper agenda." This site explores the possibilities for permaculture as a healing and regenerative modality for the land.

Permaculture Institute

Urban Permaculture Guild

Pests

National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service - Pest Management

Northeastern IPM Center

NYS Integrated Pest Management Program

The Organic Weed Management Website

Resource Guide for Organic Insect and Disease Management

Vegetable MD Online

CHILDREN, SCHOOLS, AND GARDENING

General Kids' Links

The Global Garden Project is designed especially for the classroom (homeschool or formal setting), with extensive curricular resources grouped according to discipline area (science and math, history, art and literature, etc.) including lessons on Geographic Information System (GIS) and plant folklore. Check out the Butser Ancient Farm page under History. Also, don't miss Camp Internet, where with an inexpensive subscription, weekly studies give focus to broad topics and students have a forum for communicating about what they're learning; includes an ESL study center.

KidsGardening has a wealth of information about gardening for kids, parents, and teachers, including curricula on pollination, hydroponics, and garden/habitat design.

Kids Growing Food program

School Food Garden to Cafeteria pilot program

Worm Composting in the Classroom or at Home

Journey to Forever School composting; learn about soil, build a composter, and find resources for vermiculture.

Vermiculture for Kids Learn worm composting in a fun and engaging way!

The Worm Guide A worm composting primer for teachers.

Farm to School/Farm to College

Community Food Security Coalition list of Farm to College programs

FoodRoutes Farm to College program

Northeast Farm to School Network

NY Farms! Farm to School program

New York State

Agriculture in the Classroom program - New York State

Eat Well, Play Hard program - New York State Department of Health

New York City Department of Education Food Services

New York State Assembly Task Force on Food, Farm, and Nutrition Policy

New York State Department of Education

New York School Nutrition Association

Pride of New York

COMMUNITY GARDEN ORGANIZATIONS

NEW YORK STATE

ALBANY

Capital District Community Gardens manages 48 community gardens, plants hundreds of street trees each year, and works with community groups to improve the overall appeal of our cities and the quality of life for residents.

Goff Organic Garden, a school-based project that provides meaningful community service and raises environmental awareness. See Howard L.Goff Middle School for more info.

Town of Guilderland Community Gardens. Also see their ACGA page.

BINGHAMTON

Binghamton Neighborhood Assembly Project

BUFFALO

Growing Green Urban Farm (The Massachusetts Avenue Project/MAP) provides meaningful work to low-income, at-risk youth in Buffalo. Also see their ACGA page.

Grassroots Gardens. Also see their ACGA page.

Queen City Farm is trying to work with the city of Buffalo to create an urban farm and implement transformational development.

Urban Roots is a community garden cooperative with about 400 members in Buffalo and across the country.

ITHACA

Project Growing Hope

Ithaca Childrens Garden

Ithaca Community Garden Action Project

NEW YORK CITY

Information about individual NYC community gardens and resources for gardeners can be found at Oasis New York City.

Green Thumb is the nation's largest urban gardening program, with a database of 600 gardens to join.

Map city garden locations.

Individual gardens in New York City:

Clinton Community Garden

Community Garden Mapping Project

Council on the Environment of New York City

Creative Little Garden®

El Puente Espirito Tierra®

First Street Garden®

The Floyd Bennett Garden Association®

Garden of Union®

Green Guerillas

Greene Acres Community Garden®

JFK High School®

La Familia Verde

LaGuardia Corner Gardens®

La Plaza Cultural®

Le Petit Versailles®

M'Finda Kalunga Community Garden®

Red Hook Community Farm®

R.I.N.G. Garden®

West Side Community Garden

ROCHESTER

Greater Rochester Urban Bounty's initiative of the Community Land Trust in Northeast Rochester

Rochester Roots is helping low-income people obtain nutritious, locally-grown food and practicing development and marketing of urban produce and products. Click to see a Rochester Roots pdf presentation.

NORTH AMERICA

ATLANTA

Atlanta Community Food Bank community gardening Web site

CALIFORNIA

Berkeley Community Gardening Collaborative

City of Oakland Dept. of Parks and Recreation

San Francisco Community Gardening Program

DETROIT

Garden Resource Program Collaborative

MADISON, WI

UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS)

Dane County Farmers' Market