GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government, and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Hobbies and Crafts Source offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas for many of the most popular hobbies, crafts, and recreation activities today. Click the "Home & Garden" link, then "Gardening" for more information.
Hobbies and Crafts Source offers full-text articles from over 700 leading hobby and craft magazines and books, as well as access to more than 720 instructional videos, hobby profiles, and recipes. Subject areas include:
Home Improvement Reference Center features full-text articles and video content from leading home improvement magazines that show instructions, tips, and suggestions for a variety of home improvement projects and home repair. All of the content is organized in a robust, easy-to-use interface so that users can quickly find the information they need. Click the "Gardening" link for more information.
In addition to the repair information, other magazines and reference books focusing on home improvement will be included in the database. Categories include:
"The CSN’s mission is to support community-led seed stewardship by offering a platform to connect people to projects, projects to each other, and everyone to seed. Through great conversations and the sharing of resources, we hope to make this work visible locally, regionally, and internationally, empowering community seed leaders as trailblazers and movement builders."
"Seed Savers Exchange stewards America’s culturally diverse and endangered garden and food crop legacy for present and future generations. We educate and connect people through collecting, regenerating, and sharing heirloom seeds, plants, and stories."
"Native Seeds/SEARCH (NS/S) is a nonprofit seed conservation organization based in Tucson, Arizona. Our mission is to conserve and promote the arid-adapted crop diversity of the Southwest in support of sustainable farming and food security."
"Organic Seed Alliance puts the power of seed into the hands of growers. Our work promotes an abundant and diverse supply of organic seed, tended in perpetuity by skilled, diverse, and interconnected communities of seed stewards."
Instructions for seed saving and guides for growing and saving seeds from specific produce from Community Seed Network, Seed Savers Exchange, and Native Seeds/S.E.A.R.C.H.
Created by The Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security, the Organic Seed Alliance, and the Community Seed Network, these simple guides to nine different plant families include such information as botanical and common names of crop members, life cycle, and fruit type.
Biennial plants do not produce seeds until their second year which increases the difficulty of saving seeds. This guide from Community Seed Network and Seed Savers Exchange provides helpful information for caring for biennial plants and saving seeds.
This chart from Seed Savers Exchange covers a wide variety of plants. It includes such information as plant family, pollination method, and isolation distance that can assist in planning gardens with the goal of saving seeds.
