UBC Botanical Garden - Forums and guides for growing gardens in Metro Vancouver, check out the Grow Green Guide for design inspiration and the forum to discuss all things green and growing (and more).The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening: Pacific Northwestby Lorene Edwards Forkner.Rodale Institute - Organic farming research and education organization, with webinars.The Mother Earth News Guide to Vegetable Gardening: building and maintaining healthy soil, wise watering, pest control strategies, home composting, dozens of growing guides for fruits & vegetablesby Mother Earth News.My First Vegetable Garden - Hundreds of simple instructional videos for new gardeners.Johnny's Grower's Library - growing information, planting tools, seed calculators, videos and more.Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades: the complete guide to organic growing by Steve Solomon.Growing Together Video Series- a group of organizations from across the Victoria capital region (Coast Salish territories), have a great video series delivered by many great growers and organizers.Government of Canada Publications - Access to reports, research and manuals from the Canadian Government, including this book, Northern Gardening from 1976! Use this handy Garden Planner to help determine planting dates for a wide range of common garden vegetables.Four-Season Harvest, The New Organic Grower, The Winter Harvest Handbook, by Eliot Coleman.Great Online Sources for Seed: Seed Savers Exchange Johnnys Seeds. eOrganic- Research-based information from America's land-grant universities Local organizations that offer garden classes.Diseases and Pests of Vegetable Crops in Canada edited by Howard, Garland, Seaman.Renewing Salmon Nation's Food TraditionsGary Paul Nabhan.The New Farmer’s Almanac, Volume V: Grand Land Planby Greenhorns.Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Landby Leah Penniman.The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plantsby Jennifer Jewell.The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience and Farmingby Natasha Bowens.Braiding Sweetgrassby Robin Wall Kimmerer.Have a favourite resource? Let us know via social media or email us: Community & Resilience Looking to pick up a permanent copy? Consider supporting your neighbourhood book shop or your local library. We’ve gathered a few reads that we keep coming back to. Even so, knowing where to start can be challenging! Luckily, there are lots of resources available to help get you started, or to help you dig deeper into the topics of gardening, seed saving, seed security and general plant knowledge. Growing plants from seeds is a practice that humans have been practicing for millennia.
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