Resources
Free Food Gardening Resources for Gardeners in the Deep South
How to Pick a Great Garden Spot
- What factors to balance to choose the best garden location
Food Gardening 101
- 10 steps from grass to garden
DIY Raised Beds
- What/Why/How including an "almost magic" mix recipe
What Can You Grow in a Square
- Square Foot Gardening (in raised beds), spacing, seasonal crops
Plants? Or Seeds? And Other Planning Questions
- Things to know before you plant
Where Do We Grow From Here?
- Post planting next steps, FAQ, & Seasonal Schedule
Pesky Pests and What to Do About Them
- All about pest management; i.e., what to do about bugs
What and When to Harvest
- “Pick it when it’s ready!” - Which is when exactly?
What to Do When It Freezes
-Or, rather, what to do before it freezes to protect your crops
Growing Great Soil
-Primer on mulching, my compost system, cover crops & more
Community Garden Types
-Outlines 3 major models of community gardens
So You Want to Start a School Garden (Revised 5 2016)
-By Man in Overalls, pub. by FDACS Food Nutrition & Wellness Div.
Man in Overalls Food Gardening Videos
Man in Overalls YouTube Channel
FDACS Fresh for Florida Kids Teaching Garden Channel
Individual Videos:
-Building Raised Beds
-Garden Planning
-Planting Seeds
-Planting Starts
-Watering Your Garden
-Growing Potatoes
-Growing Tomatoes
-Weeding
-Growing Corn
-Growing Sweet Potatoes
-When the Garden is Done (Transitioning to the next season)
-How to Grow Year Round (in spite of the cold)
-"My Garden, My Plate" USDA Dietary Suggestions
-"Math in the Garden" - Using food gardens as teaching tools
Additional Quick References
- Just Fruits and Exotics' Vegetable Planting Guide
- Just Fruits And Exotics' fruit tree resources
- Johnny's Seed Starting Guide -How to plant and grow seedlings
- Native Nurseries' Pest Solutions - A table that lists pests on one axis and available pest products on the other.
- Just Fruits and Exotics' Beneficial Insect Guide - Most insects are on your team. How to bring in the good ones.
- Cornell's "Home Composting" - Composting Essentials, How to compost yard waste, food scraps, etc
- ATTRA's Ecological Pest Management Database - Biorational controls for basically every pest known to science
Favorite Gardening Books
- Down to Earth Gardening Down South (Lacy Bullard)
- Square Foot Gardening (Mel Bartholemew)
- How to Grow More Vegetables (John Jevons)
Other Good "How-To" Reads
- Building Soils for Better Crops
- Weedless Gardening (Lee Reich)
- How to Grow World Record Tomatoes (Wilber)
- Manage Insects on Your Farm: A Guide to Ecological Strategies
- Managing Cover Crops Profitably
- Manage Weeds on Your Farm
- The Organic Manual (Garrett)
- Permaculture: Principles & Pathways (David Holmgren)
- Edible Forest Gardens (Jacke & Toensmeier)
Market Farming Books on Our Shelf
- The Lean Farm (Hartman)
- The Market Gardener (Fortier)
- The Urban Farmer (Stone)
Soil Testing
-Micro nutrient analysis & compost (soilless medium) tests: WayPoint Analytical
-Soil, compost, plant tissue, & heavy metal test by UMASS
-pH, P, K, Ca, and Mg testing by UF IFAS.
-Micro nutrient analysis by Fertrell (email soil test request)
-Soil, water, feed, heavy metals, pesticide/ herbicide residues, & food safety by Waters Agricultural Laboratory.
ACGA's E-Newsletter
Man in Overalls Posts concerning Community Gardens
School & Youth Garden Resources
Man in Overalls Blogs:
-How to Start a School Garden: Build a Team
-How to Start a School Garden: Design
Gardening for Grades - free guide from Ag in the Classroom
- how to plan, fund, create and learn with school gardens
Gardening for Nutrition - free school-garden nutrition curriculum
- "sequel" to Gardening for grades. Also correlated to standards.
Florida Dept of Education School Garden Program
- Overalls V2MOM Template
- Customer Profile Template
- Business Model Canvas Template
- Overalls SOP Template
- Overalls How to Draft & What To Include in an SOP
- Overalls Victory Log GoogleForm
- Overalls Issue Log GoogleForm
- Overalls Mileage Log GoogleForm
- Google: Gmail, Drive, Docs, Forms, Sheets for everything
- Slack for team internal communications
- ToDoist for tasks, check-lists, reminders
- Zapier for automations
- Hopper for scheduling social media
- CovertKit for bulk email sequences
- Copper to manage sales & customer relations
- QBO for accounting
- Contacts Plus & Gmail Shared Contacts to sync contacts
- Gusto for payroll