HELPING BOZEMAN AND MISSOULA COMMUNITIES GET OFF THE GRASS SINCE 2009

-Growing Tips

Follow this link to The Garden Planning Calendar which many new gardeners praised in 2009. It was compiled by the Missoula County Extension Service and contains information about planting cycles for seeds and seedlings, recipes, growing tips, and so much more.

Simple, Honest How-To's
-Seed Selection

-Seeds for Montana Climate (courtesy of Montana Public Radio's program, The Garden Plot)

-Zone4 Magazine's "A Year's Worth of Produce in 90 Days"

-A Clean Pallet To Draw Out Your Plot (diagram)

-How to Prepare a Lasagna Garden During the Fall Season

Check out Organic Gardening in Cold Climates,
a timeless book from the Missoula guru, Sandra Perrin.

**Find it at this Missoula Public Library (link to library catalog)
**Find it at this Bozeman Public Library (link to library catalog)

Cheryl Moore-Gough and Bob Gough of Montana State University
just released a new garden book!

**It's available at your local bookstore
and the Bozeman Public Library (link to library catalog)

And don't forget the author of three organic gardening books:

The New Organic Grower
The Winter Harvest Handbook
Four-Season Harvest: organic vegetables from your home garden all year round

Eliot Coleman is the plant whisperer.
**Each is available at the Missoula Public Library (link to library catalog)
**And also at the Bozeman Public Library (link to library catalog)

Urban Foraging References (recommended by The Urban Homestead):
-Gibbons, Euell, Stalking the Wild Asparagus. Alan C. Hood & Company, Inc., 2005.
A Classic. Many older editions and a field guide available.
-Henderson, Robert K., The Neighborhood Forager. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2000.
Wild food from a gourmet perspective, recipes and medicinal notes.
-Hoffman, John. The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving. Loompanics Unlimited, 1992.
Don't let the comic-style cover put you off. A great book.
-Thayer, Sam. The Forager's Harvest.. Forager's Harvest Press, 2006.
Also see foragersharvest.com.

What's your book of choice?
We'll have more resources up soon, but in the meantime, please suggest some readings below!