Community Garden Primers:

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  http://go.ncsu.edu/CG-Handbook

  Eat Smart Move More North Carolina: Growing Communities through Gardens

• How to Organize an Allotment Community Garden, NCSU AG-727
• Food Safety for School and Community Gardens
• Collard Greens and Common Ground:  A North Carolina Community Food Gardening Handbook. Click the PDF icon near the bottom of the right column of the publication for a print ready version. Purchase a Hardcopy, $12 + shipping.

Community Development

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  Atlanta Community Garden Tool Bank – Image by Ellen Kirby

  Extension’s Community Development Program is a network that works collaboratively with local communities to harness local resources in building stronger communities and local economies.

• Community Garden Asset Inventory
• Cultivating Community: A Training Manual to Engage with Diversity in Community Food Systems
• The Role of Local Government in Creating Healthy, Livable Neighborhoods

Composting and Organic Matter

• Community Garden Compost Resources
• Composting and Vermiculture
• Composting publications

Cooperative Extension Resources

• Ask an Expert
• E-answers – 250,000 pages of practical, current, and unbiased information from Cooperative Extension professionals at more than 50 Land Grant universities throughout the United States.
• Journal of Extension – The official refereed journal of the U.S. Cooperative Extension System.
• North Carolina Educational Resources
• North Carolina AG Chem Manual – Integrated Pest Management Strategies for insects, diseases, weeds, animals
• One Search – 1008 Cooperative Extension Sites
• Syracuse Community Garden Resource Directory

Management

• Sample Application
• Sample Application in Spanish
• Sample Guidelines
• Model Programs and Policies
• Harvest Tracking Sheet
• Vegetable Measurement Guide

Nutrition

• Eat Smart, Move More NC
• A Garden of Health Poster
• Choose My Plate
• North Carolina Nutrition Services
• USDA Food and Nutrition Information Center

Seeds

• Seed Sources
• SEEDS

Spanish Language Resources

• Farm and Garden Resources – Center for Rural Affairs, Lyons, NE
• Garden Resources, LifeLab,
• Garden Start-Up Guide, University of California Cooperative Extension Los Angeles County
• Seed to Salad, Cornell

Videos

• Videos – by Kansas State
• Ephemeral Bamboo Sculptures – Will Hooker, NC State

Youth

• 4-H Youth Gardening, NC
• Agriculture in the Classroom
• Down-to-Earth
• The Food Project
• Garden Mosaics
• Junior Master Gardener
• School Gardens Grow Science Achievement Scores, National Science Teachers Association

Links

• Community Gardening Links
• The American Community Gardening Association
• City Farmer, Urban Agriculture Notes