Muskingum Valley Garden Society

Links

We have compiled a comprehensive list of links to organizations, programs and institutions which provide information useful for participants.

If you have a comments about any of these links, or have found a new one, please share it with us.

Community Involvement Programs

• All-America City Program
  www.ncl.org
  Encourages & recognizes civic excellence where community members, government, business & non-profit organizations work together to address critical local issues.
  
  American Horticultural Society
  www.ahs.org
  Gardening education for all skill levels, source of gardening information, events, activities.
  
  Association for Volunteer Administration
  www.avsl.org
  Advances volunteerism & enhances quality of life locally & globally by engaging leaders of volunteers through professional development, networking, & quality products & services.
  
  Communities In Bloom
  www.communitiesinbloom.ca
  A Canadian beautification program similar to AIB
  
  WinterLights Celebrations
  www.Winterlights.ca
  A competition encouraging municipalities, large and small, to celebrate light with decorative, cultural and spiritual programs.
  
  Federation to Promote Horticulture for Disabled People (FPHDP) www.horticultureforall.org 
  Horticulture used therapeutically. Promotes horticulture as a means of improving skills, health & quality of life of disabled people by developing training, education & rehabilitation programs for special-needs schools, day centers, nursing homes, hospitals, sheltered workshops & in the community at large.
  
  Global Action & Information Network (GAIN)
  www.igc.apc.org
  Network of organizations & individuals linked by commitment to create a sustainable world through broad-based citizen action. Communication network, information bank, & forum for new ideas.
  
  Hands On Network
  www.handsonnetwork.org 
  International network of collaborative partnerships with more than 12,000 nonprofits, schools, & other community organizations to create real change through meaningful volunteer action.

  University Resources

  Cornell University Horticulture
  www.hort.cornell.edu
  Lists of classes offered & extension office locations. Pictorial database of plants and pests.
  
  Kansas State University Horticulture
  Forestry & Recreation Resources
  www.oznet.ksu.edu/dp_hfrr
  
  New England Grows
  http://pss.uvm.edu/ppp/neglist.html
  University of Vermont Internet Resource List
  
  North Carolina State University Horticultural Science Department
  www.cals.ncsu.edu/hort_sci
  
  Ohio State University Horticulture and Crop Science
  www.hcs.ohio-state.edu
  
  University Of Minnesota
  www.plantinfo.umn.edu
  Used by professionals for more that 10 years, gardeners can find plant or seed sources for nearly any plant.

Youth and Urban Gardening Resources

Children & Nature Network
Building a movement to reconnect children with nature.
www.childrenandnature.org

American Horticultural Society
www.ahs.org/youth_gardening/index.htm 
Acknowledges gardening as an inter-generational environment that can help develop social skills, enhance school’s curricula, bring families together, & emphasize the link between nature & food, clothing, shelter, etc.

Center for Ecoliteracy
http://ecoliteracy.org/programs/wellness_policy.html
Rethinking school lunch programs

First Bloom
http://www.nationalparks.org/who-we-help/youth-engagement/?fa=first-bloom
Children who may have limited access to the outdoors will have the opportunity to get their hands in the dirt and experience planting and gardening for the first time in their neighborhoods and our national parks.

The Food Project
http://thefoodproject.org/
Urban farming projects for youth

Food from the Hood
http://www.foodfromthehood.com/2004-2005/food/Home/home.htm
Ultimate city farming program

Garden Organic for Schools
http://gardenorganic.org.uk/schools_organic_network/
index.php
A UK site that includes teacher resources, curriculum, and other resources.

Granny’s Garden
www.grannysgardenschool.com
Remarkable all-organic landscape around an elementary school in Loveland, Ohio. Entirely self-funded. All volunteer. Special curriculum designed for use by teachers to supplement and enrich curriculum.

Green Hour
www.greenhour.org
Green Hour, an initiative to help parents find ideas for fun, educational outdoor activities for kids. The idea is that children will be encouraged to turn off their televisions, computers and video games to participate in "unstructured play and interaction with the natural world," spending time in the garden or park.

Kidsregen
www.kidsregen.org
Part of the Rodale Institute’s Youth Educational Program dedicated to empowering children to make healthy choices for the environment & for themselves.

National Junior Master Gardener Program
www.jmgkids.us
International youth gardening program.

Project Orange Thumb
www.fiskers.com
Provides garden tools and supplies to community gardening groups. 

Slow Food in Schools
http://slowfoodusa.org/education/index.html
A unique national program of garden to table projects with children that cultivates the senses and teaches an ecological approach to food.

Sustainable Table
http://sustainabletable.org/schools/
School gardens and food projects.

Urban Mini-farming
www.minifarms.com
Urban mini-farming offers unlimited  youth opportunities as well as financial opportunities.

Edible Schoolyard
www.edibleschoolyard.org

National Gardening Association
www.garden.org/asg
Adopt A School Garden Program