Community Gardening

Starting a Freecyle Community
Got closets and basements full of stuff you never use? Need stuff for your community garden but everyone in your group is cash poor? Try Freecycle... a never-ending garage sale of free stuff.
Starting a Community Garden
This fact sheet is designed to give many different groups the basic information they need to get their gardening project off the ground.
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
CSAs give the consumer choice about how and where their food is grown.
Learn how to support them and buy a share in a CSA.
Ways to Celebrate National Garden Month and Give a Garden
Creative ideas from http://www.nationalgardenmonth.org/
Community Gardening Resource List
and programs with links to useful websites and information related to the Community Involvement Criteria.
Everything Old is New Again
The National Garden Bureau launches a campaign to revitalize the ease and pleasure of growing from seed. This logo will be used to identify educational information on gardening from seed or bedding plants from seed. National Garden Bureau members will encourage the art and craft of gardening with seed using the Great Gardeners Use Seed™ logo. This is a commitment to reach teachers, youth, and adults teaching the benefits of gardening with seed and plants from seed.
Community Foods: Definitions & Explanations
Community food security is a relatively new concept with roots in such disciplines as community nutrition, nutrition education, public health, sustainable agriculture, and anti-hunger and community development.

"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it."
~ John Churton Collins

Build Your Own!

Learn how to create your own geodesic dome green house and have your own 'Organic Food Factory' providing you and your family with incredible food, year round, even in the dead of winter! Click Here!

What's New?

Discover how to easily build an attractive and affordable greenhouse that will grow anything in any conditions. Also, building your own greenhouse just makes economical sense. You can build a greenhouse at just a fraction of the cost of buying a pre-built one. Most pre-built greenhouse you buy need to be assembled anyway, you are really just paying hugely inflated prices for the material.

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Book of the Month

Grow the vegetables and fruits your family loves; keep bees, raise chickens, goats, or even a cow! The Backyard Homestead shows you how it's done. And when the harvest is in, you'll learn how to cook, preserve, cure, brew, or pickle the fruits of your labor.