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  1. All About Vegetables
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  2. The Canadian Green Consumer Guide
    How You Can Help

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    A guide to responsible shopping that won't cost the earth.
  3. Cathy's Crawly Composters
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  4. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  5. Edible Landscaping
    Resource Type: Book
  6. Farming Without Machines: A Revolutionary Agricultural Technology
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Originally published in 1974, How to Grow More Vegetables, Eighth Edition: (And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land than You Can Imagine1 remains a vital resource for farmers, agricultural researchers and planners, sustainability activists and home gardeners.
  7. Four Season Harvest
    How to Harvest Fresh Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long

    Resource Type: Book
  8. Garden & Patio Building Book
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  9. Gardening and food-growing guide
    Personal advice and tips on growing your own fruit and vegetables to stay healthy and save money.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    We all know the advantages of organically produced food, but why should we have to spend a fortune on organic fruit and veg? It is often from miles away, over packed, expensive, a bit manky by the time we get it and in some areas only available from supermarkets.
  10. Guerrilla gardening
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Political gardening, a form of direct action, primarily practiced by environmentalists.
  11. The Harrowsmith Reader
    An Anthology from Canada's National Award Winning Magazine of Country Life and Alternatives to Bigness

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    Articles on land, country careers, shelter, gardening, husbandry, food, trees, and rural life.
  12. How to Grow and Can it Book of Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
  13. An Illustrated Guide to Growing Food on Your Balcony
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    A booklet for people in the city who grow or want to grow plants in container. The information is meant to be basic enough for beginners and informattive enough to be a handy reference for even an experienced gardener.
  14. In 2011 the dacha gardens of Russia produced 40% of the nation's food.
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    While many in the world are completely dependent on large scale agriculture, the Russian people feed themselves. Their agricultural economy is small scale, predominantly organic and in the capable hands of the nation's people. It's not just a hobby but a massive contribution to Russia's agriculture.
  15. In Home Gardens, Income and Food for Urban Poor
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    A slowly but steadily growing phenomenon in Jordan, urban agriculture has vast potential for reducing poverty and improving food security, and it has the added benefit of greening and cleaning up more rundown sections of cities.
  16. Landscaping With Nature
    Using Nature's Design to Plan Your Yard

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Cox says a normal garden can be transformed into a place of spiritual wonder. Includes every aspect of of natural landscaping: from site evaluation to garden design styles; plans for paths,pools, terraces and stone walls.
  17. The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    Blending a passionate sensibility and a steely intellect with an unshakeable commitment to revolutionary socialism, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. In this comprehensive collection selection of Luxemburg's letters, her political concerns are revealed alongside the story of a vivid inner life.
  18. Occupy Gardens hosts Potluck and Seed Planting at Queen's Park
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Occupy Gardens is hosting a Garden Party Potluck at Queen’s Park. Gardeners are gathered on the South lawn with seeds, plants, soil, music, and food to highlight the need for food justice in Toronto.
  19. Organic Gardening
    Everything the Beginner Needs to Know

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  20. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015
    A Healthier Planet

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing food in and around cities - is a response to the problems created by industrial agriculture, a chemical-dependent industry shipping food thousands of miles from where it is produced to where it will be consumed. We also mark the release of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was abused, tortured, and imprisoned first by the U.S. government and then by Canada. Other articles look at the advances made by women in Latin America, privilege politics, and the myths of peaceful protests.
  21. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 5, 2015
    Ecosocialism, environment, and urban gardening

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    This issue of Other Voices covers a wide range of issues, from the climate crisis and the ecosocialist response, to terrorism and the struggle against religious fundamentalism, as well as items on urban gardening, the destruction of olive trees, and how the police are able to use Google's timeline feature to track you every move, now and years into the past.
  22. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
    What are we eating?

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2018
    What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
    For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
    How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
    A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
  23. Plant, Pick & Eat It
    Wenn ein Garten wächst

    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2014
    A group of neighbours in Kassel, Germany come together to transform a public space into a community garden. The film explores both the positive human impacts of the initiative and the subsequent resistance by the city to allowing the garden to continue.
  24. Plant This Movie
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2014
    A documentary which encourages people to use green spaces to grow vegetables instead of grass. The film explores urban gardening in cities including Havana, Shanghai, Calcutta, Addis Ababa, Lima, New York, New Orleans, and London.
  25. Poisoned Cities and Urban Gardens
    Resource Type: Article
  26. Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Gardening & Landscaping Techniques
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  27. Second Nature
    A Gardener's Education

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Pollan's descriptions and meditations on trying to grow a garden on an abandoned Connecticut farm.
  28. Share if You Think Every School Should Have a Year-Round Organic Gardening Program!
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    A few years ago the children at our school grew, harvested and, ultimately, ate a giant, two-pound carrot. Our organic gardening program at the Waldorf School of Cape Cod has come a long way since then. We now have a unheated hoop house and a program where middle school gardeners lead first through fifth graders as they learn to build soil, plant, transplant, tend, water and harvest food year round. Our harvests are transformed by our school chef into amazing meals served at lunch.
  29. Skills for Simple Living
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  30. Social Activist Grace Lee Boggs on Shaking Up the Status Quo in America
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2007
    Grace Lee Boggs has been a part of almost every major movement in the United States in the last 75 years, including: Labor, Civil Rights, Black Power, Women’s Rights and Environmental Justice.

Experts on Gardens/Gardening in the Sources Directory

  1. Common Ground Magazine
  2. J. Paul Getty Museum
  3. Natural History Museum


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