There are so many online resources it is hard to know where to start and how to organize them but below are a few of our favorites. Please let us know at indytilth@gmail.org if any links are broken or if you have good links to add. We welcome your suggestions. Thank you!
Green infrastructure
Rain gardens
Bioretention (City of Indianapolis)
Cisterns and rain barrels
Cisterns & Rain Barrels (City of Indianapolis)
Urban farming
Local Gardens
Broadway Community Garden 3415 Broadway, Indianapolis 46205
Community Heights Community Garden
Felege Hiywot Center 1648 Sheldon Street, Indianapolis 46218
Local Organizations
Community Garden Resources
American Community Gardening Association
Community Garden Start Up Guide (UC Davis)
Nature's Crossroads - free seeds for community gardens
Keep Indianapolis Beautiful Project Greenspace
Initiatives Elsewhere
The Food Project (Boston, MA)
Growing Power (Milwaukee, WI and Chicago, IL)
Re-Vision Urban Farm Project (Boston, MA)
Boston Natural Areas Network (Boston, MA)
Milwaukee Urban Gardens (Milwaukee, WI)
Magnuson Community Garden (Seattle, WA)
Zenger Farm (Portland, OR)
The Garden Project (San Francisco, CA)
The City Farms (NY, NY)
Grow Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)
Seeds (Durham, NC)
Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming (London, UK)
Blogs (ok, not all urban but pretty interesting nonetheless...)
Urban Land Army (Seattle, WA)
An Urban Plot (Ashville, NC)
You Grow Girl (Toronto, Canada)
Urban Garden Hoe (Oklahoma City, OK)
Garden Desk (northern KY)
My Skinny Garden (Chicago, IL)
Skippy's Vegetable Garden (near Boston, MA)
In My Kitchen Garden and Farmgirl Fare (small town, MO)
Sustainable Garden (Nottinghamshire, UK)
Veggie Garden Info (many re-posts from other sites)
Organic farming
National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
Organic Agriculture (Purdue Extension)
Organic Farming Research Foundation
Vegetable MD (Cornell)
Soil
Contaminants & remediation
Lead in the home garden and urban soil environment (U Minn Extension)
Lead problems for urban farms (Evan Green)
The potential for heavy metal exposure from urban soils and exposures (Chaney RL et al.)
Assessing Potential Risk of Heavy Metal Exposure from Consumption of Home-Produced Vegetables by Urban Populations (Hough RL et al.)
Soil contamination and urban agriculture (McGill University)
Testing
Safe Urban Gardening Initiative (IUPUI, Dr. Filippelli)
Collecting soil samples for testing (Purdue Extension)
Soil Testing Labs (recommended by Purdue Extension)
EMSL Analytical Labs (Indianapolis lead-only soil testing)
Amendments
See also composting
Compost resources (Seattle Tilth)
Vermiculture
A simple guide to vermiculture (IDEM)
Composting with red wriggler worms (City Farmer, Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture)
Blogs
Irrigation
*See how to page for how to build a rain barrel
Vegetable garden
Vegetable gardening basics (U Illinois Extension)
Gardening with vegetables (Colorado State)
Seed companies
Starting seeds indoors
Starting plants from seeds (U Missouri)
How to create seed-starting pots from newpapers
Cover crops
Overview of cover crops and green manures
Companion plants
Companion planting: Basic concept and resources
Ivydene Gardening companion planting
Three sisters garden: corn, beans, squash
When to plant
Grow guide (Weekend Gardener)
Growing vegetables
Vegetable directory (U Illinois Extension)
Seed starting (Weekend Gardener)
Growing herbs
Seed starting (Weekend Gardener)
Seeds saving
Seed saving (Fedco)
Pest and disease management
Resource guide for organic insect and disease management
Grapes, berries and brambles
Desirable fruit and berry varieties
Berries (Cornell Fruit Resources)
How we raise our berries (The Berry Patch)
Grapes
Strawberries
Strawberry production (Cornell Fruit Resources)
Raspberries
Reliable raspberries (Fine Gardener)
Growing raspberries and blackberries (U of Maine Coop Extension)
Orchards and fruit trees
Midwest fruit tree pest management handbook
Post harvest information network
Soil management for orchards and vineyards
Apple
Disease resistant apple varieties
How to prune and train apple trees
Growing apple trees in the home garden (North Carolina Cooperative Extension)
Growing apple trees in the home garden (Ohio State University)
Cherry
Pear
Pears (University of Kentucky)
Persimmon
Persimmons (Purdue Extension)
Plum
Plum varieties (National Gardening Association)
Flower garden
Native plants
Indiana Native Plant and Wildflower Society
Invasive plants
What to plant and what NOT to plant (The Nature Conservancy)
Midwest Invasive Plant Network
Alien Plant Invaders of Natural Areas (Plant Conservation Alliance)
National Invasive Species Information Center (USDA)
Pollinators: birds and bees
Garden for wildlife - create a certified wildlife habitat (National Wildlife Federation)
Birds
Bird pollination (US Forest Service)
Bees
Building your own hives (Bee Source)
Beginning beekeeping (Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Research and Extension Consortium)
General gardening resources
National Gardening Association
Gardening resources for kids
