Any experienced enthusiast will know that sometimes the best way to plan is by learning about others’ experiences! Below, we provide links to some of our favorite blogs providing relevant and helpful information to those interested in urban gardens and agriculture in DC.
A Leafy Indulgence
A backyard gardener’s journal that shares experiences, thoughts, and resources from Alexandria, VA.
Brown.Girl.Farming Blog
Follow The Color of Food on the Brown.Girl.Farming blog where you can see snippets of stories, photos, clips and quotes from farmers and food activists involved in the project of keep up with the author Natasha Bowens.
Centro Ashé
Centro Ashé is a community rooted education center, farmstead, and medicinal plant sanctuary in Southern Maryland just south of Washington DC as well as Talamanca, Costa Rica. It seeks to engage community through organizing educational activities that celebrate the art, tradition, and culture of herbalism, and that cultivate meaningful connections with the earth and each other.
Claggett Farm
For 20 years the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s 285 acre Clagett Farm has provided free and reduced-price, fresh produce to people living in poverty and near-poverty in Washington, D.C. The project, a collaboration with Capital Area Food Bank, blends local, sustainable organic agriculture with social justice.
Garden Rant
GardenRant is a garden blog published since June 2006 and quickly developed a following among garden bloggers, garden writers and editors, and landscape nursery business professionals. We have been named Best Garden Blog, Most Innovative Garden Blog, and Best Written, by a jury of our peers.
Good Sense Farm
Good Sense Farm & Apiary provides a diverse array of local delicacies and an empowering learning environment for foodies from all walks of life. We grow gourmet mushrooms and raise healthy bee colonies that produce the finest local honey.
Grounded Women: Stories of Women who Farm
Grounded Women shares the inspiring stories of powerful and committed women farmers who have chosen to create a purposeful life through agriculture.
Grounded Women: Stories of Women who Farm
Grow It Eat It: Maryland’s Food Gardening Network
Grow it! Eat it! campaign is a joint venture between The University of Maryland Master Gardener program and the Home and Garden Information Center- to encourage more food gardening in Maryland. Their educational campaign is supported by a Grow it! Eat it! web site and blog. Their mission is to help people improve human and ecological health by growing their own food using sustainable gardening practices.
Grow It Eat It: Maryland’s Food Gardening Network
GW Food Justice Alliance
The GroW Community Garden offers George Washington University students and community members a place to learn about native, organic food systems by providing service opportunities in sustainable gardening, food distribution, and community outreach.
Pegplant
Northern VA Garden blog that provides information about books, classes, events, garden clubs, public, gardens, nurseries, seeds, soil tests, etc.
Washington Gardener
Washington Gardener magazine, blog, enewsletter and events are designed specifically for gardeners in the District of Coumbia and its suburbs.
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Where You Are Planted
A backyard gardener’s journal that shares experiences, thoughts, and resources from Alexandria, VA.
Follow The Color of Food on the Brown.Girl.Farming blog where you can see snippets of stories, photos, clips and quotes from farmers and food activists involved in the project of keep up with the author Natasha Bowens.
Centro Ashé
Centro Ashé is a community rooted education center, farmstead, and medicinal plant sanctuary in Southern Maryland just south of Washington DC as well as Talamanca, Costa Rica. It seeks to engage community through organizing educational activities that celebrate the art, tradition, and culture of herbalism, and that cultivate meaningful connections with the earth and each other.
Claggett Farm
For 20 years the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s 285 acre Clagett Farm has provided free and reduced-price, fresh produce to people living in poverty and near-poverty in Washington, D.C. The project, a collaboration with Capital Area Food Bank, blends local, sustainable organic agriculture with social justice.
Garden Rant
GardenRant is a garden blog published since June 2006 and quickly developed a following among garden bloggers, garden writers and editors, and landscape nursery business professionals. We have been named Best Garden Blog, Most Innovative Garden Blog, and Best Written, by a jury of our peers.
Good Sense Farm
Good Sense Farm & Apiary provides a diverse array of local delicacies and an empowering learning environment for foodies from all walks of life. We grow gourmet mushrooms and raise healthy bee colonies that produce the finest local honey.
Grounded Women: Stories of Women who Farm
Grounded Women shares the inspiring stories of powerful and committed women farmers who have chosen to create a purposeful life through agriculture.
Grounded Women: Stories of Women who Farm
Grow It Eat It: Maryland’s Food Gardening Network
Grow it! Eat it! campaign is a joint venture between The University of Maryland Master Gardener program and the Home and Garden Information Center- to encourage more food gardening in Maryland. Their educational campaign is supported by a Grow it! Eat it! web site and blog. Their mission is to help people improve human and ecological health by growing their own food using sustainable gardening practices.
Grow It Eat It: Maryland’s Food Gardening Network
GW Food Justice Alliance
The GroW Community Garden offers George Washington University students and community members a place to learn about native, organic food systems by providing service opportunities in sustainable gardening, food distribution, and community outreach.
Pegplant
Northern VA Garden blog that provides information about books, classes, events, garden clubs, public, gardens, nurseries, seeds, soil tests, etc.
Washington Gardener
Washington Gardener magazine, blog, enewsletter and events are designed specifically for gardeners in the District of Coumbia and its suburbs.
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Where You Are Planted
Centro Ashé is a community rooted education center, farmstead, and medicinal plant sanctuary in Southern Maryland just south of Washington DC as well as Talamanca, Costa Rica. It seeks to engage community through organizing educational activities that celebrate the art, tradition, and culture of herbalism, and that cultivate meaningful connections with the earth and each other.
For 20 years the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s 285 acre Clagett Farm has provided free and reduced-price, fresh produce to people living in poverty and near-poverty in Washington, D.C. The project, a collaboration with Capital Area Food Bank, blends local, sustainable organic agriculture with social justice.
Garden Rant
GardenRant is a garden blog published since June 2006 and quickly developed a following among garden bloggers, garden writers and editors, and landscape nursery business professionals. We have been named Best Garden Blog, Most Innovative Garden Blog, and Best Written, by a jury of our peers.
Good Sense Farm
Good Sense Farm & Apiary provides a diverse array of local delicacies and an empowering learning environment for foodies from all walks of life. We grow gourmet mushrooms and raise healthy bee colonies that produce the finest local honey.
Grounded Women: Stories of Women who Farm
Grounded Women shares the inspiring stories of powerful and committed women farmers who have chosen to create a purposeful life through agriculture.
Grounded Women: Stories of Women who Farm
Grow It Eat It: Maryland’s Food Gardening Network
Grow it! Eat it! campaign is a joint venture between The University of Maryland Master Gardener program and the Home and Garden Information Center- to encourage more food gardening in Maryland. Their educational campaign is supported by a Grow it! Eat it! web site and blog. Their mission is to help people improve human and ecological health by growing their own food using sustainable gardening practices.
Grow It Eat It: Maryland’s Food Gardening Network
GW Food Justice Alliance
The GroW Community Garden offers George Washington University students and community members a place to learn about native, organic food systems by providing service opportunities in sustainable gardening, food distribution, and community outreach.
Pegplant
Northern VA Garden blog that provides information about books, classes, events, garden clubs, public, gardens, nurseries, seeds, soil tests, etc.
Washington Gardener
Washington Gardener magazine, blog, enewsletter and events are designed specifically for gardeners in the District of Coumbia and its suburbs.
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Where You Are Planted
GardenRant is a garden blog published since June 2006 and quickly developed a following among garden bloggers, garden writers and editors, and landscape nursery business professionals. We have been named Best Garden Blog, Most Innovative Garden Blog, and Best Written, by a jury of our peers.
Good Sense Farm & Apiary provides a diverse array of local delicacies and an empowering learning environment for foodies from all walks of life. We grow gourmet mushrooms and raise healthy bee colonies that produce the finest local honey.
Grounded Women: Stories of Women who Farm
Grounded Women shares the inspiring stories of powerful and committed women farmers who have chosen to create a purposeful life through agriculture.
Grounded Women: Stories of Women who Farm
Grow It Eat It: Maryland’s Food Gardening Network
Grow it! Eat it! campaign is a joint venture between The University of Maryland Master Gardener program and the Home and Garden Information Center- to encourage more food gardening in Maryland. Their educational campaign is supported by a Grow it! Eat it! web site and blog. Their mission is to help people improve human and ecological health by growing their own food using sustainable gardening practices.
Grow It Eat It: Maryland’s Food Gardening Network
GW Food Justice Alliance
The GroW Community Garden offers George Washington University students and community members a place to learn about native, organic food systems by providing service opportunities in sustainable gardening, food distribution, and community outreach.
Pegplant
Northern VA Garden blog that provides information about books, classes, events, garden clubs, public, gardens, nurseries, seeds, soil tests, etc.
Washington Gardener
Washington Gardener magazine, blog, enewsletter and events are designed specifically for gardeners in the District of Coumbia and its suburbs.
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Where You Are Planted
Grounded Women shares the inspiring stories of powerful and committed women farmers who have chosen to create a purposeful life through agriculture.
Grounded Women: Stories of Women who Farm
Grow it! Eat it! campaign is a joint venture between The University of Maryland Master Gardener program and the Home and Garden Information Center- to encourage more food gardening in Maryland. Their educational campaign is supported by a Grow it! Eat it! web site and blog. Their mission is to help people improve human and ecological health by growing their own food using sustainable gardening practices.
Grow It Eat It: Maryland’s Food Gardening Network
GW Food Justice Alliance
The GroW Community Garden offers George Washington University students and community members a place to learn about native, organic food systems by providing service opportunities in sustainable gardening, food distribution, and community outreach.
Pegplant
Northern VA Garden blog that provides information about books, classes, events, garden clubs, public, gardens, nurseries, seeds, soil tests, etc.
Washington Gardener
Washington Gardener magazine, blog, enewsletter and events are designed specifically for gardeners in the District of Coumbia and its suburbs.
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Where You Are Planted
The GroW Community Garden offers George Washington University students and community members a place to learn about native, organic food systems by providing service opportunities in sustainable gardening, food distribution, and community outreach.
Northern VA Garden blog that provides information about books, classes, events, garden clubs, public, gardens, nurseries, seeds, soil tests, etc.
Washington Gardener
Washington Gardener magazine, blog, enewsletter and events are designed specifically for gardeners in the District of Coumbia and its suburbs.
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Where You Are Planted
Washington Gardener magazine, blog, enewsletter and events are designed specifically for gardeners in the District of Coumbia and its suburbs.
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Where You Are Planted
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