Gardening Resources
Reliable Sources for Information, Seeds, and Plants
Seed Sources for Heirlooms
Seed Savers
Experimental Farm Network
https://www.experimentalfarmnetwork.org/
https://store.experimentalfarmnetwork.org/
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Eden Brothers Seeds
Territorial Seed Company
Going to Seed
Native Seeds Search
Annie’s Heirloom Seeds
Helpful YouTube Channels
Morag Gamble, Our Permaculture Life
https://www.youtube.com/@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife
https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/
Parkrose Permaculture
https://www.parkrosepermaculture.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/ParkrosePermaculture
Gardening in Canada, Zone 3
https://gardeningincanada.net/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChojGgtJd_Rlj4sqkiSIpPA
Parkrose Permaculture
https://www.parkrosepermaculture.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/ParkrosePermaculture
Plant Nurseries Near Wheat Ridge, CO
O’Toole’s Garden Center
Al’s Pine Garden
Echter’s Plant Nursery
Great nursery with many hard-to-find plants and Colorado natives. Great information desk where you can also take samples for identification. Https://www.echters.com
Helpful FaceBook Groups
FB Shitty Harvests
FB Wheat Ridge Gardeners
FB Colorado Gardening
Helpful Websites
Jackson Perkins
https://www.jacksonandperkins.com/
Best source for seriously fancy roses!
Joseph Lofthouse
Permies.com
https://permies.com
Includes tons of active permaculture discussion forums, education programs, and projects to participate in. Interaction with Paul Wheaton and other permaculture leaders. Recorded seminars. Very good stuff!
Environmental & Gardening Videos
2040
An Australian documentary looking at the anticipated impacts of global climate change in the next 20 years and examining technologies that exist today that could reverse the effects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2040_(film) (2019 92 mins. Good Thing Productions)
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity
A community in Australia comes together to demonstrate simpler ways to live including building tiny houses, building veggie gardens and living in community. https://www.happenfilms.com/films/a-simpler-way (2016 78 mins. Happen Films)
An Inconvenient Truth
One of the early films to call attention to global warming trends. It follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit raising public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu6SE5TYrCM (2006 96 mins. Paramount Pictures)
An Inconvenient Sequel
Filmed a decade after An Inconvenient Truth, the film follws the efforts to tackly climate change and discusses investment in renewable energy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKww6xMTCc0 (2017 99 mins. Paramount Pictures)
Back to Eden
Documentary about Paul Gautschi, founder of the Back to Eden Gardening, detailing his regenerative organic vegetable and fruit gardening approach. https://www.backtoedenfilm.com/#/ (2016 69 mins. Dana & Sarah Films)
Common Ground
Discusses the importance of regenerative agriculture. Makes the case for urgent need of widespread adoption of these principles in agriculture before our land becomes unusable.
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret
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Fantastic Fungi
Visually stunning photography and timelapse video. The film discusses the importance of fungi, mushrooms, and mycorrhizal networks in evolution and possibilities in medical applications. https://fantasticfungi.com/pages/the-film (2019 81 mins. Moving Art Studio and Reconsider)
Growing Cities
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Kiss the Ground
Discusses the importance of regenerative agriculture.
No Impact Man
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The Gardener
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The Trader
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