Meet your next harvest
Tomatoes
Follow a flower all the way to the fruit on your plate.
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Follow your curiosity.
Grow your understanding.
Crops, methods, equipment, and good questions—all connected. Start with the thing you want to grow, and discover what it needs.
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Meet your next harvest
Leaf lettuce
A small bed, a salad, a satisfying first harvest.
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Cucumbers
Meet the climber with a lot going on behind every fruit.
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Radishes
A quick observation project with a harvest you can see.
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Bush beans
From a seed’s stored energy to a fresh green pod.
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A better way to grow
High tunnels, inside out
Roll up the sides. Look up at the ribs. Learn what the cover changes.
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Succession planting
Grow a sequence, not one overwhelming glut.
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Drip irrigation
Follow the water from the line to the roots.
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Ventilation
The smallest adjustment can change the whole growing space.
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No-dig growing
Explore a practice. Keep the evidence in view.
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Know your tools
Soil & air observations
Measure the environment you are actually managing.
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Know your tools
Hoops, film & pathways
Understand the structure before buying one.
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Know your tools
Containers that fit the crop
Think roots, not just the pot’s appearance.
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Observe before you act
Aphids: start with observation
A curled leaf is a clue, not the whole answer.
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Observe before you act
The scout-before-you-spray workflow
Observe → identify → assess → act → check.
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Observe before you act
Read the pesticide label
The product, crop and use site all have to match.
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Your first useful kitchen garden
Choose what you will eat. Start smaller than your ambition.
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Plan a fall harvest, not a frost surprise
Work backward. Watch the light. Leave room for reality.
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What organic actually means
A production standard—not a magic adjective.
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Follow an ingredient, seed to supper
The plate is the final chapter, not the whole story.
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How much can a small plot really provide?
Separate planted area, produce weight and complete nutrition.
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High tunnel or greenhouse?
The cover looks similar. The management can be very different.
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Go straight to the source
Extension crop-planning reference
Compare crop economics, labor and layout assumptions.
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USDA organic standards
Read the standards behind organic production claims.
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EPA label search
Find the exact pesticide label rather than a generic recipe.
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Extension container-growing guide
Match roots, crop habit and usable container volume.
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Conservation community
Willowsford Conservancy & Farm
A residential conservancy connecting habitat stewardship, a working organic farm, food sales and outdoor education.
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Agrihood
Serenbe
A community combining a working farm, food-focused programming, walkable hamlets and visitor hospitality.
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Agrihood
Agritopia
A Gilbert neighbourhood linking urban farmland with homes, local food businesses and a walkable commercial setting.
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Conservation community
Prairie Crossing
A conservation community integrating homes, open space and agricultural land in the Chicago region.
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Agrihood
South Village
A Vermont agrihood with a twelve-acre organic farm and food-education connections through Common Roots.
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A visual field lesson
Harvest is not one stage
A leaf, a root and a fruit each tell a different growing story.
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A visual field lesson
From seed tray to growing space
Germination, emergence, true leaves and hardening are not the same event.
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A visual field lesson
A watering plan you can question
A timer knows its setting. It does not know your root zone.
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Not just dirt: a working ecosystem
Explore the spaces, organisms and processes under a growing bed.
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Texture is not structure
Sand, silt and clay describe particles. Structure describes their arrangement.
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When more compost is too much
Amendments are inputs, not an unlimited goodness dial.
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From soil health to food: three different questions
Soil function, crop composition and health outcomes need different evidence.
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A garden is one part of a plate
Learn nutrient roles without a “miracle food” story.
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The carrot connection
Follow beta-carotene to vitamin A’s normal functions.
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Vitamin C: a role, not a cure
Connect plant foods to normal collagen formation and iron absorption.
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Why the structure of food matters
Follow a plant’s edible parts into a varied eating pattern.
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A fresh harvest still needs safe handling
Keep the joy of homegrown food—and the cleaning step.
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What growing really costs
Separate the first purchase, this season’s expenses and the time you contribute.
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Production is not sales
Follow packout, sell-through, fees and work before calling a crop profitable.
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The volume behind a raised bed
A small footprint can require a surprising amount of material.
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Agrihood
Rancho Mission Viejo
A master-planned ranch community with resident farms, growing spaces and food-focused programming across its villages.
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Community farm
Armistead Farm
A Franklin farm developing a phased market-garden and education program, alongside a separately described agrihood vision.
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Teaching farm
Jones Valley Teaching Farm
A Birmingham food-education nonprofit using teaching farms and classroom growing to connect learning with real food systems.
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Regenerative agriculture hub
The Ecology Center
A regenerative farm and education centre connecting growing, food, making and community participation in Orange County.
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Regenerative agriculture hub
Rodale Institute Headquarters
A farm-based research and education campus where visitors can connect organic growing practices with long-running field research.
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Care farm & nature education
Green Chimneys Farm & Wildlife Center
A farm and wildlife setting within a nonprofit nature-based education organization, with a separate public visiting pathway.
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Farm-based wellness retreat
The Farm at San Benito
A wellness-hospitality property incorporating a vegetable and herb garden into a broader guest experience.
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This is a curated starter library, not a comprehensive farming reference. Regional guidance and illustrative planner inputs are labeled. No expert review is implied.
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