Extension Resources and Links

Gardens are an integral fabric of the community. Many questions and challenges exist with how to start, what to grow, when to harvest, what is eating my plant, etc.

Your local extension office can assist you with local cultural practices and recommendations, varieties, insects, etc. We cannot manage your community garden for you, but we will assist you and provide educational tools for your community garden.

A practical gardening guide for the Albuquerque area is entitled "Down to Earth" written by the Albuquerque Master Gardeners. It provides gardening tips for different areas of town based on elevation and soil types as well as month to month seasonal gardening tips.

• NMSU Publication: Guide a-114: Soil Testing Home Garden

• Albuquerque Schools Growing Gardens

• NMSU Publication: Guide H-246: Starting a Community Vegetable Garden

• NMSU Publication: Circular 457-B: Growing Zones, Recommended Crop Varieties, and Planting and Harvesting Information for Home Vegetable Gardens in New Mexico

• NMSU Extension How-to Link for the home garden and landscape publications

• Building Community from the Roots Up - Ideas and pictures of community and school gardens around Albuquerque, NM

• Community Garden Tool Kit Workbook - University of Missouri Extension Publication guides you through step by step about the process of starting, working, and sustaining a community garden

• Questions to consider when Starting a Community Garden Checklist

• Steps To Organizing Your Community Garden

• Community Garden Resource - Ideas from University of New Hampshire with challenges of community gardens

• American Community Garden Website - American Community Garden Start-up Resource Page

• Los Angeles Urban Community Garden Resources

• LA County Start-up Guide (PDF)

• Plot Style Community Gardens with Garden Bed Designs - University of Minnesota Extension ideas on salsa gardens, canning gardens, and plot community gardens

• Horticulture Therapy and Community Gardens