Community Garden Resources

• Mapleton Fallcreek Community Garden Resource Center (about the Center)
  • (Web site not yet available)
• American Community Gardening Association
• Return to the Garden
  Resource for churches wanting to start community gardens produced by the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
• Community Gardening: A Path to Food Security in Indianapolis
  The 2006 report on Community Gardening in Marion County, Indiana
• Film: The Garden
  Story about the LA Community Garden
• Article: "Worldly Lessions Taught in Community Garden"
  by John Hershey (March 2006)

Indianapolis Gardening Resources

• Indiana Organic Gardeners Association
• Butler University Center for Urban Ecology Urban Farm
• Indiana Vegetable Planting Calendar
• Indiana Fruit and Vegetable Harvest calendar
  
  • Download the calendar
• New Crop Resource Online Program
  • An information-rich site related to crop plants, knowledge of botany helpful
• Purdue Extension: Marion County
  • Capital City Garden Project
• Growing Places Indy
• Converting brownfields in to green space
  • Check back about the City of Indianapolis' initiative to convert brown fields into green spaces for urban agriculture.

Water resources

• Rainbarrels (The City Farmer)
• Rainbarrel Guide
• Rainbarrel Source

General Gardening Resources

• Grounds for your Garden, all Starbucks locations
  Pick up free used coffee grounds to use on your garden.
• 15 Thousand Farmers: Louisville, Ky., initiative with instructions on how to grow in a 4'x4' space
• Dig the Dirt: for new gardeners
• Urban Agriculture Notes: City Farmer (a legendary site)
• Weeds as Indicators (about soil quality)
• Kitchen Gardeners International
• National Gardening Association

Seed and Plant Resources

• Nature's Crossroads (Bloomington, Ind.)
  Nature's Crossroads works with Communtiy Gardens. They have donated seeds to gardens and they are also looking for people people to save seeds. You can also set your organization up so that when people purchase seeds your garden can get 25% of the proceeds back.
• Organize a neighborhood seed or plant exchange
• Fields of Agape (Central Indiana)
• Fedco Co-op Garden Supplies
  All seeds are guaranteed to be non-genetically modified.
  
• Sunrise Seeds (Union City, Ind.)
• Starting Seeds Indoors (Purdue Extension)
• Farmers Markets in Indiana (Indiana Department of Agriculture)
  Excellent sources for garden plants
  • Indy Winter Farmers' Market
  • Broad Ripple Farmers' Market
  • Traders Point Creamery Farmers Market (year-round)
• Seed Saving (How-to guide by FedCo)

Other resources

• Food security
  • Community Food Security Coalition
    Community gardens contribute to community food security
  • Indianapolis Food Farm & Family Coalition
  • Plant a Row for the Hungry
  • Based on the statistics produced by SustainLane, for Indianapolis to be a more food-secure city, it needs around 400 community gardens. A 2006 survey of Indianapolis-area gardens found only 60 gardens. Check back for resources on starting a community garden in your neighborhood.
• Food in general
  • Slow Food Indy
• Earth-friendly
  • Earth Charter Indiana
  • Global Peace Initiatives (home of the Peace Gardens)
    Volunteer opportunities available, contact Linda Proffitt.
  • Going Local
  • Improving Kids Environment
    
  • Lead testing project: to be part of a research project on lead, get your soil tested free
  • Indiana Living Green
  • Indy Tilth
    A grassroots organization focused on gardening and urban sustainability
  • Keep Indianapolis Beautiful
  • Relocalize.net
  • Sustainable Indiana 2016
  • Sustainable Indiana
  • SustainIndy
• City and Neighborhood resources
  • Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center
    Find out what neighborhood you live in and how to access abandoned lot