Resources
Ecosystem Farm (in Atlanta) is where I learned a lot of what I know about farming
Sylvanaqua Farms (in Virginia) runs an Instagram account that discusses racism, economics, and regenerative agriculture.
I got the compost that is underneath all of my plants from Dekalb County. It's free to pick up, and cheap to get delivered (but only in large quantities). Note that you can't necessarily know what's in county compost, as it comes from yard bags, so it may not be organic. But you can't beat the price!
Cummings Landscaping is one of my favorite places to get soil, gravel, and other landscaping supplies.
I got the woodchips around the edges of the yard from ChipDrop.
If you want to know more about the sunlight that your yard gets (one of the reasons our gardening is successful is that we have true full sun), I recommend you set an alarm for every hour during a day, and go check on your yard. You can also use SunCalc for a general idea.
I also used a contour map when planning our garden.
I didn't till to set up our garden, we've used a combination of berms and swales (for water management), modified hugelkultur, and cover crops.
I like to get my seeds from the Alliance of Native Seedkeepers, Johnny’s Seeds, and Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, plus the Wylde Center’s annual seed swap. My flower bulbs came from Eden Brothers and my dahlia tubers came from Chattahoochee Queen.
I mostly get plant starts from Garden*Hood, Love Is Love Farms, the Paideia School Farm, Atplanta, and the Wylde Center.
For other large scale gardening tips, I love the Instagram of Urban Farmstead (based in Sacramento but still useful).
I compost our garden scraps and kitchen scraps through a combination of vermiculture (worm bins), a tumbling composter, a compost heap, and CompostNow.
My 2020 tomato wrangling system is called the "Florida weave", and we learned about it from a video from Urban Farmstead.
The arched trellises were built in 2021 using cattle panels from Tractor Supply (you'd need a pickup truck to pick them up), following this tutorial.
When I had chickens, they lived in a coop that we built. I raised most of them as hatchlings. The last one died in 2023, I haven’t decided if I’ll get more. The Georgia Poultry Lab is an important local chicken resource. I learned chicken basics from a class run through The Homestead Atlanta.
