At this time when we must act to reverse the climate crisis, and ensure our health, a garden is one of the most effective solutions.
(Note: Gardens for Humanity does not receive any financial benefit or commissions from resources cited. They are here to help the reader find information that may prove useful in starting a garden.)
Video: The Soil Story
Video: Why Soil Matters
How to Build and Nourish Healthy Garden Soil
Video: The Compost Story
The Easiest Way to Start Composting Now
Video: How to Build a Worm Bin
Worm Composting Basics for Beginners
Worm Composting: Everything You Need to Get Started
Can’t compost yourself? Call the Compost Crowd
Video and Course: Why Compost
Basic Seed Saving by Bill McDorman
Seed to Seed by Suzanne Ashworth
Seed: The Untold Story – Movie
Harvesting Rainwater for Drylands and Beyond – Brad Lancaster
The Myth of Water Scarcity – Article by Richard Sidy
Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land, by Gary Paul Nabhan
Desert Gardening: Fruits and Vegetables, by George Brookbank (At your favorite bookseller.)
Video: Five ways to make your garden regenerative
Informative and Interesting Videos: https://kisstheground.com/videos/
The Urban Farm: https://www.urbanfarm.org/
Start a Climate Victory Garden: https://www.greenamerica.org/food
For Families and Kids: https://learningherbs.com/
Peter Bigfoot: https://www.reevismountain.org/
John Slattery: http://www.johnjslattery.com/
Feather Jones: https://www.canyonspiritventures.com/
Phyllis Hogan: https://www.wintersun.com/index.php/site/page/view/phyllis
Clare & Max Licher: http://phibeearomatics.com/index.html
Verde Thumbs Garden Club – tips and sharing from local Verde Valley Gardeners
Slow Food USA: https://slowfoodusa.org/about/
Slow Food Arc of Taste: https://slowfoodusa.org/ark-of-taste/
U of A Cooperative Extension -Home Gardening
The Sustainability Alliance
Healthy World Sedona
Pledge for the Planet
Slow Food Prescott
Kiss the Ground
Green America
Find and choose a program you like, and help to expand and flourish it.
Gardens for Humanity acknowledges that we work and gather upon the ancestral homeland of the Yavapai-Apache Nation. We honor, with gratitude, the land itself and the Yavapai and Apache people who have lived here for millennia and who remain a vital part of this community today.