Local Gardening

• Bountiful Gardens. Biointensive gardening, Willits, CA. Bountiful Gardens sells untreated open-pollinated seed of heirloom quality for vegetables, herbs, flowers, grains, green manures, compost and carbon crops. Offering Biointensive and Grow BiointensiveTM sustainable organic seed.
• Fedco Seeds. Suppliers of organic seeds, Waterville, ME. Recommended by Jerry Hapka, Argyle, MN.
• Seeds of Change. This group is a tested and trusted vendor of organic and heirloom seeds.
• Seed Savers Exchange. This is a nonprofit organization of gardeners who save heirloom seeds.

• Probstfield Garden provides space for community gardens. Probstfield Organic Community Garden - Visit web site, www.probstfieldcommunitygarden.weebly.com  for information about the garden and how to rent a garden plot.
• Yunker Farm. Phone: 701-232-6102. Located at 1201 28th Avenue N in Fargo, has a community gardens program. If we get more information about it, we will post it here.
• City of Fargo Compost Source. Located at the city landfill at the corner of 45th Street and 7th Avenue North. Residents of Fargo need to show proof of residence at the scale house to pick up free compost. City crews are available to help (or they were last year) between 3:30 and 5 pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Please check the link for more details.

• Wildman Steve Brill Foraging Website, a site that tells you how to find and eat edible weeds.
• Lehman's Products for Simple Living, Amish suppliers of all sorts of handy gardening, canning and drying equipment.
• The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (A Gardener's Supply Book), by Eliot Coleman.
• NDSU's database on canning. This site has information on canning everything from apples to meat, to vegetables and explains different processes, such as boiling water bath canning to pressure canning.