These websites and blogs are good sources of info for gardening, urban chickens,
sustainable agriculture and living self-sufficiently. Click the links to visit the sites.
Have a favorite gardening site or blog? Email us the URL and we'll include it in the list
for others to enjoy! You can click on the link below to visit our gardening blog:
Click here to visit The Useful Gardens Blog!
Beginning gardeners
take note: There is a very easy-to-use introductory guide to vegetable gardening available online from
Kansas State University. Access the Adobe document at: KSU Gardening Guide . Interestingly, even the planting/harvesting chart works well for our area.
BE
INSPIRED
Urban farmer Will Allen was named a MacArthur Fellow in
2008. The Fellowship is a $500,000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their
work and the promise to do more. Will has created a gardening project, Growing Power, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which
teaches, produces and shares food throughout his City and inspires similar efforts around the nation and the world.
Listen to Will Allen talk about the project in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EpTWQWx1MQ
If you haven't had a chance to hear Virginia's own organic farming guru, Joel Salatin, talk about
farming beyond organic - and creating a happy life and a decent living in the process, here's a chance to listen to his
presentation at the Mid-Atlantic TED conference: http://tedxmidatlantic.com/live/#JoelSalatin.
FIND USEFUL INFO
There
are hundreds of gardeners around the world writing about their experiences. You can find a marvelous selection of blogs
- for reference or just fun browsing - at the Blotanical.com blog collection.
When you really want to talk in depth about a favorite plant, garden style or area
of gardening - try the GardenWeb.com Forums. There's more handson knowledge in these message
boards than in most universities!
The Garden Guides site offers general
gardening hints on a wide range of subjects:
Want to know more about raising
a backyard chicken flock?
Here's a nice compilation of useful gardening info from a UK website. Brits are mad gardeners and
there's a LOT of info here, just tweak a bit to match our hotter, drier climate. Thanks to Sarah Wahlberg
for sending it in! http://www.toolbox.co.uk/resources-3
Serious about supporting local foods in your area?
You'll find inspiration and excellent problem-solving and planning in the Guide to Building North Carolina's Sustainable Local Food Economy. You don't have to be in North Caroina to get great ideas from this publication created from the 1,000-plus individuals who participated in the Center for Environmental
Farming Systems (CEFS) 2008-2009 Farm to Fork initiative and contributed their experiences, ideas and vision.
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