Curious about composting or organic food growing methods? We’ve got factsheets to cover all of your bases!
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#19 Bioremediation for Urban Gardeners
This Healing City Soils Factsheet offers ways that home-scale food gardeners, small urban farmers and community gardeners can draw on their soil and plant knowledge and skills to remediate soils that are contaminated with low to moderate soil concentrations of heavy metals.
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#20 Sub-irrigated Bucket Planters
This factsheet describes how to make a sub-irrigated planter for growing in, out of two stacked buckets.
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#21 Zero Waste Living
Learn ways to integrate zero waste living into your kitchen, bathroom, office space, and more!
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#22 Container Gardening
This factsheet is a primer on getting you started growing healthy, abundant food and flowers in containers, paying special attention to types and sizes of pots, good quality soil, and choosing the right varieties of seed/plants to grow in containers.
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#23 Gardening for Renters
This factsheet addresses a few of the barriers renters face to growing food so more tenants can build food security and support urban ecology.
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#24 Grow Your Own Food
Learn how to build the best soil, the easiest and most productive plants to grow, and how to care for your plants through the growing season.
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#25 Hot Water Bath Canning
In this factsheet you will learn about Hot Bath Canning, how it works, what you can make, and how to do it safely.
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#26 Multi-Family Dwelling Composting Options
Learn about ways to divert organic matter from the landfill and recycle this nutrient-rich resource in an on-site small-scale composting device.
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#27 Boulevard Gardening
Learn how to increase local biodiversity, through gardening on public land with boulevard gardens!