Community Garden Resources

Publications & Guides

• Community Garden Connections Education Manual: A year-round manual for guiding the educational growth of garden leaders (214 pages, PDF, Lead Author: Libby Weiland Principal Editors/Contributors: Susan Baron, Maisie Rinne, Allan Pearce, Monica Foley, and Libby McCann) 

• Cultivating Community: Notes from Come to the Table’s “Cultivating Community: Starting a Congregation-Sponsored Community Garden,” November, 2007. (PDF)

• Community Garden fact sheet: From Come to the Table
  
  
• Gardening Basics. Link submitted by Mrs. C’s Gardening High School Club. 

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  Helpful Links

• NC Cooperative Extension Community Garden Website
• American Community Gardening Association
• National Gardening Association
• Growing Small Farms: Planting schedules, pest control and other info for central North Carolina farms

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Faith-Led Gardens in the News

• By the Square Foot (on square-foot gardening and the St. Anne’s Episcopal Church Peace Garden) – Winston-Salem Journal, June 6, 2009
• Church Turning Eyesore into a Garden (on Main Street United Methodist’s Garden) – Winston-Salem Journal, May 31, 2009
• Planting the Seed (on gardens including one at Concord United Methodist Church) – The (Burlington)Times-News, May 22, 2009
• Gardens Yield Food, Fruit of the Spirit (on Triangle gardens – Covenant, Anathoth, Simple Gifts and Interfaith Food Shuttle) – The (Raleigh) News and Observer, April 19, 2009
• Seeds of Joy (on Anathoth Community Garden) – Winston-Salem Journal, Feb. 14, 2009
• Share Work and Harvest (on Covenant Community Garden)- The News and Observer, July 27, 2008
• Seagrove Community Garden Receives Grant from Fiskars – The Courier-Tribune, March 2, 2008
• A Garden Becomes a Protest: The Field at Anathoth – Orion Magazine, July, 2007

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Our Favorite Garden Books

• How to Grow More Vegetables and Fruits (and Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine, by John Jeavons

• The Sustainable Vegetable Garden:A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soils and Higher Yields, by John Jeavons and Carol Cox

• Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for the Vegetable Gardener, by Suzanne Ashworth and Kent Whealy

• The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy Without Chemicals, by Barbara W. Ellis and Fern Marshall Bradley

• The New Organic Grower: A Master’s Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener, by Eliot Coleman and Francis Blake

• Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long, by Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch, and Kathy Bray

• All New Square Foot Gardening, by Mel Bartholomew

• Great Garden Companions: A Companion-Planting System for a Beautiful, Chemical-Free Vegetable Garden by Sally Jean Cunningham

• Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System for Bountiful Gardens: No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding! by Patricia Lanza

• Simply in Season Cookbook, by Mary Beth Lind and Cathleen Hockman-Wert

• Simply in Season Children’s Cookbook, by Mark Beach and Julie Kauffman

• Stocking Up: The Third Edition of America’s Classic Preserving Guide, by Carol Hupping

• Community Gardening (Brooklyn Botanic Garden All-Region Guide), by Elizabeth Tehle Peters and Ellen Kirby

• Food and Faith: Justice, Joy and Daily Bread, ed. Michael Schut

• The Essential Agrarian Reader, ed. Norman Wirzba

• Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible by Ellen Davis, forward by Wendell Berry