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Here are the resources our neighbors have found related to gardening, urban agriculture, and the intersection between food, community, and justice.

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Free online permaculture course

 

Permaculture integrates land, resources, people and the environment through mutually beneficial synergies – imitating the no waste, closed loop systems seen in diverse natural systems.

Here is the free (donate what you want / can) course

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Reading list

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• Agrarian Commons: A New Model for Community-Owned Farmland–post from AgrarianTrust

• Of Hogs and Hugels: Creating a Perennial Food Forest–post from Studio Hill Farm

• Gardens Have Pulled America Out of Some Its Darkest Times. We Need Another Revival. Article from Mother Jones

• Information on Winter Sowing, aka starting seeds in the winter

• Five Easy Ways to Support Pollinators in 2021–post from Tufts Pollinator Initiative

• How to Grow Native Flowers From Seed (Wild Seed Collective, Maine)

• How Indigenous Agricultural Practice Benefits Soil; this is just one example using the “Three Sisters” practice of growing corn, beans, and squash together

• Biden Bets the Farm on Climate; an article on Biden’s plan to make US agriculture more sustainable

• An Army of Women is Taking on the Hunger Crisis

• Why Diversity is an Advantage in a Vegetable Plot

• Home Gardening Ideas and Projects on a Budget

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Listening/Watching List

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• Green Dreamer Podcast

• Northeast Organic Farming Association Podcast, a podcast all about Organic farming, sustainability and food systems for everyone who cares about food, where it comes from and how it’s grown. 

• Culinary Breeding Network’s Winter Vegetable Sagra, a video webinar series, with each sub-series focusing on a different winter vegetable or food family.

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Online Growing Communities

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• Cambridge City Growers (that’s us!)

• Fruitful Journey, Cambridge, MA

• Camberville Plant Lovers (mainly for indoor plant growers)

• Food Not Lawns

• Dudley Grows