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A Victory Gardens for Peace Growing Guide
This growing guide was prepared to help home and community gardens apply GROW BIOINTENSIVE® principles of sustainable food production in their home and community gardens. It includes planting calendars and diet designs specific to a maritime climate in temperate regions.
A Farmer's Mini-Handbook
Communities, families, and individuals all over the world are searching for ways to provide the necessary food and nutrition for sustenance and health. This handbook is a simple and instructive look at GROW BIOINTENSIVE® (GB) Sustainable Mini-Farming. It is a method of food-growing that helps revitalize our planet by building soil, using a smaller area to produce higher yields than conventional methods, and minimizing water, organic fertilizer, and bio- logical pesticide use.
First and last freeze/frost dates for Fort Bragg, California, United States
Dave's Garden has a great tool for determining the first and last freeze/frost dates based on your zip code—the links here are preset to show the dates for Fort Bragg.. You'll want to know these dates so that you know when it is safe to plant out frost-sensitive crops in the spring and how long your actual frost-free growing season is when you're reading those seed packets.
Dave's Garden has a great tool for determining the first and last freeze/frost dates based on your zip code—the links here are preset to show the dates for Fort Bragg.. You'll want to know these dates so that you know when it is safe to plant out frost-sensitive crops in the spring and how long your actual frost-free growing season is when you're reading those seed packets.
Soil Temperature Conditions for Vegetable Seed Germination
If you're wondering why the seeds you planted never came up, maybe your soil wasn't warm enough. This handy chart from The University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources Garden Notes, will show you the soil temperature ranges at which seeds germinate, or start to grow, best. There's a second chart that shows how many days it takes for seeds to start, at varying temperatures. This is helpful to know when you're watching and waiting for something to happen and wondering if your seeds are still going to come up or if they've rotted/dried up. Some seeds start very quickly and others take their time, so it's good to know what to expect.
If you're wondering why the seeds you planted never came up, maybe your soil wasn't warm enough. This handy chart from The University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources Garden Notes, will show you the soil temperature ranges at which seeds germinate, or start to grow, best. There's a second chart that shows how many days it takes for seeds to start, at varying temperatures. This is helpful to know when you're watching and waiting for something to happen and wondering if your seeds are still going to come up or if they've rotted/dried up. Some seeds start very quickly and others take their time, so it's good to know what to expect.
Gardening Guides
Mendocino County Local Food Guide, which is part of the Anderson Valley Foodshed, offers some helpful guides to planting, harvesting and seed saving on their website.
Mendocino County Local Food Guide, which is part of the Anderson Valley Foodshed, offers some helpful guides to planting, harvesting and seed saving on their website.
Written as a University of California Master Gardener Program project, A Garden of Words/Un jardín de palabras is a bilingual English- Spanish/Spanish-English dictionary. It is intended as a tool to help both elementary school children and their teachers/leaders communicate in the garden.
The dictionary includes the most common gardening words and phrases. Also provided is a translated and converted metric/U.S. units table. The language is color coded, with English words in green and Spanish words in orange. The publication is divided into two sections: English-to-Spanish and then Spanish-to-English
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Growing Calories: A Community Resource Ensuring Food Security in Coastal Climates
This document is intended to create awareness around the growing global crisis regarding food security while offering encouragement, guidance and information with pursuit towards building resilient and sustainable community food systems specific to the coastal climates of Northern California. |
Seed Saving Guide
The 4th edition of the Seed Ambassadors Project Seed Saving Guide will help you learn why and how to save seeds.
We are a group of folks who have recognized that saving seeds is the foundation of developing durable and resilient locally based food systems. We encourage others to join us in this important work. In our eyes every seed saved is a socially healing, community creating event.
We are not trained botanists, but have learned from our own experiments and experiences as well as from some of the best seed savers and plant breeders in the world, many of whom live right here in Oregon. This ‘zine is a small attempt to share this wealth. As Matthew Dillon of the Organic Seed Alliance says, “Seed Knowledge is eroding even faster than Seed Biodiversity”.
The 4th edition of the Seed Ambassadors Project Seed Saving Guide will help you learn why and how to save seeds.
We are a group of folks who have recognized that saving seeds is the foundation of developing durable and resilient locally based food systems. We encourage others to join us in this important work. In our eyes every seed saved is a socially healing, community creating event.
We are not trained botanists, but have learned from our own experiments and experiences as well as from some of the best seed savers and plant breeders in the world, many of whom live right here in Oregon. This ‘zine is a small attempt to share this wealth. As Matthew Dillon of the Organic Seed Alliance says, “Seed Knowledge is eroding even faster than Seed Biodiversity”.
Education Programs
The GardenCorps Program is a 4-Month internship for individuals and small teams dedicated to establishing and supporting a sustainable gardening culture in their community.
We integrate classroom learning, biointensive gardening and design methodologies and community organizing to create a dynamic educational experience. This program is offered by Victory Gardens for Peace at their mini farm in Mendocino.
We integrate classroom learning, biointensive gardening and design methodologies and community organizing to create a dynamic educational experience. This program is offered by Victory Gardens for Peace at their mini farm in Mendocino.
connect with UsYour donations to Garden Friendly Community Fort Bragg are tax-deductible thanks to our fiscal sponsor Mendocino Coast Children's Fund.
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