Community Garden Start-Up Manuals

Foodshare, Community Gardening 101
Online workshop with readings, questions, and exercises.

Idaho Office for Refugees, How to Host a Community Garden
Short page on Idaho Office for Refugees website. Has useful info including cost estimates.

Missouri Extension, Community Gardening Toolkit
Excellent resource for community garden planning, maintaining, and improving.

North Carolina State University, Eat Smart Move More North Carolina
Planning and resource guide for community gardens.

Oregon Foodbank, The Dirty Dozen: Your Guide to a Successful Community Garden
Complete community gardening start-up guide. Very concise and easy to read.

Building

Instructables, Build an easy 5 x 5 Greenhouse for under $25
Instructions to make a small greenhouse for cheap with easily-scavenged materials.

Instructables, Backyard Chicken Coop
How to make a backyard chicken coop. Includes basic rules for designing any sort of chicken abode.

Organic Gardening
Series of short, instructional videos on all sorts of gardening topics, made easy to anyone can try them.

WikiHow: How to Construct a Raised Planting Bed
Step-by-step instructions for making a raised garden bed.

Growing Guides

The Food Project Growing Guide
Guide that covers gardening in a raised bed, square foot gardening, what to plant when/where, etc. En español

National Gardening Association, Food Growing Guide
Individual and group listings of vegetables and their growing techniques, planting, care, and harvesting.

Planning an Idaho Vegetable Garden
A resource from the University of Idaho, this is an Idaho-specific guide to gardening.