Link Categories
Resources for farmers / gardeners
- Rodale
http://www.rodale.com/ - Cornell University Vegetable MD On Line
http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/ - American Horticultural Society Master Gardeners
page www.ahs.org/master_gardeners
Links to Master Gardener websites nationwide - The Heirloom Vegetable Gardener’s Assistant
http://www.halcyon.com/tmend/heirloom.htm
Great resource compiled by a botanist & heirloom gardener from the Pacific Northwest - GardenWeb
Billed as the internet’s garden and home community.
Great information is available under Gardening Q&A and FAQs
http://www.gardenweb.com/ - National Gardening Association
http://www.garden.org/home - Kitchen Gardeners International
http://www.kitchengardeners.org/ - Free crop planning software
Developed by a software-developer-turned-farmer with support from a USDA-SARE grant, this software includes a crop database, crop plan and weekly to-do lists for greenhouse and field. Developer Clayton Carter has used it on his farm for two years and says it’s been downloaded more than 1,000 times. The software can be downloaded for free; a donation gives you access to priority email support.
http://code.google.com/p/cropplanning
Providers of seeds and other supplies
- Scythe Supply
This small Maine company offers high-quality, relatively lightweight European-style scythes that are custom-built to fit the user. We’ve heard good things about the company’s scythes from several women, and Scythe Supply’s Carol Bryan tells us that almost 30% of their sales are currently to women.
http://www.scythesupply.com/ - Sustainable Seed Company
This very cool California company offers heirloom seeds – many certified organic and all U.S.-grown – and was begun by “a new generation of farmers who understand that if there is to be a bright future for humanity we need to start farming and living sustainably today. ”
http://www.sustainableseedco.com/ - Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
Provider of heirloom seed varieties adapted to the Mid-Atlantic region; many are organic. Great collection of links. One of SESE’s varieties (Granny Cantrell’s German Red/Pink) withstood the late-blight catastrophe of summer, 2009 better than any other in our gardens! http://www.southernexposure.com
- High Mowing Organic Seeds
Family-owned Vermont seed company selling all organic varieties, many raised on High Mowing’s own 40-acre farm
http://www.highmowingseeds.com - Native Seeds / S.E.A.R.C.H.
(Southwestern Endangered Aridland Resource Clearing House)
Tucson, AZ-based nonprofit conservation organization offering 350 seed varieties appropriate for the arid Southwest
http://www.nativeseeds.org
- Fedco Co-op
Great source of seeds, organic growing supplies and information
http://www.fedcoseeds.com/index.htm - Johnny’s Selected Seeds
A Maine-based, employee-owned company selling a variety of seeds and growing supplies.
http://www.johnnyseeds.com/default.aspx - Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Great source of seeds for unusual and heirloom varieties from all over the world. No certified organic seeds, though, and no way to tell which seeds have been sustainably grown.
http://www.rareseeds.com/ - Peaceful Valley Farm & Garden Supply
California-based provider of seeds and a wide range of supplies and information related to organic growing
http://www.groworganic.com/default.html - Seed Savers Exchange
Nonprofit organization supporting the preservation of heirloom seed varieties by an international network of growers. Members have access to a mind-boggling array of unusual seeds.
http://www.seedsavers.org/ - Wood Prairie Farm
Certified organic farm that produces high-quality seed potatoes and vegetable seeds
http://www.woodprairie.com/ - Gary Ibsen’s Tomato Fest
More than 600 varieties of certified organic heirloom tomato seeds
http://www.tomatofest.com/ - Turtle Tree Seed
Source of biodynamic seeds; biodynamic growing is a system developed by Rudolph Steiner
http://www.turtletreeseed.com/ - Territorial Seed Company
30-year-old company catering to home gardeners and, in an age of buy-outs and consolidations, dedicated to remaining “an independent trusted seed company.”
http://www.territorialseed.com/ - Renee's Garden
The latest venture of Renee Shepherd, the founder of Shepherd's Garden Seeds, Renee's Garden sells seeds for gourmet vegetables, fragrant bouquet and heirloom flowers and culinary herbs. Renee is known for her pioneering work bringing international varieties to the U.S., and through Shepherd's Seeds (which she has since sold) introduced us to one of our all-time favorite heirloom tomato varieties
http://www.reneesgarden.com/
Organizations supporting sustainable
agriculture and food safety
- Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association
http://mofga.org/ - Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education
Service (MOSES)
http://mosesorganic.org/ - National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
A national alliance of family farm, food, conservation, rural and urban organizations that take common positions on federal agriculture and food policies, and engage and support the broad and vital grassroots efforts across the country to win long-term policy change.
http://sustainableagriculture.net/ - New England Small Farm Institute
http://www.smallfarm.org/main/about_nesfi/ - Center for Food Safety
Nonprofit public interest & environmental advocacy organization dedicated to promoting healthy & sustainable food production
http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org - Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable
Agriculture
http://www.pasafarming.org/ - The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working
Group
http://www.nesawg.org/ - Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
(SARE)
http://www.sare.org/ - Alternative Farming Systems Information Center
(U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library)
http://afsic.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?tax_level=1&info_center=2 - Cornell University Small Farms Program
http://www.smallfarms.cornell.edu/index.cfm - Northeast Organic Farming Association of
New York
http://nofany.org/index.html - Biodynamic Farming & Gardening Association
http://www.biodynamics.com/ - Rodale Institute, a pioneer in organic and
sustainable farming
(check out the New Farm pages)
http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/ - The Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Oklahoma-based nonprofit educational foundation -- a great resource and great website for farmers, ranchers and gardeners. Be sure to check out "Resources & Information"
http://www.kerrcenter.com/
Organizations supporting women in agriculture
- Pennsylvania Women’s Agricultural Network
http://wagn.cas.psu.edu/ - Maine Women’s Agricultural Network
http://www.timeandtide.org/wagn_-_home/ - Women’s Agricultural Network (Vermont)
http://www.uvm.edu/wagn/ - Connecticut Women’s Agricultural Network
http://www.canr.uconn.edu/ces/frm/pages/ctwagn.php - Women’s Agricultural Community (Michigan)
http://www.safs.msu.edu/womenag/index.htm - Women in Agriculture (Nebraska)
http://wia.unl.edu/index.html%3bjsessionid=
80C72083B2F5057307D6C9DA65C863D4 - Arkansas Women in Agriculture
http://www.arkansaswomeninag.com - Association of Women in Agriculture (Wisconsin)
http://www.uwmadisonawa.org/ - Women, Food & Agriculture Network
http://www.wfan.org/index.html - USDA Farm Service Agency Women Outreach Program
http://www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/webapp?area=home&subject=oued&topic=ops-wn - Mary Peabody’s blog related to Women’s Agricultural
Networks
http://mpeabody.blog.uvm.edu/wagn/ - Women in Agriculture -- conferences and programs
related to risk management
http://www.agrisk.umn.edu/wia/
