How to find morel mushrooms
Foraging is when you harvest wild food. Often these foods are difficult or impossible to cultivate. Morel Mushrooms are one […]
Crops
Tomato Pruning Guide
This resource provides an image based guide to pruning determinate and indeterminate varieties of tomatoes. A guidebook by Haley Drake,
What Tomato is This? – Tomato Marketing Guide
This tool is for illustrating the differences between four categories of commonly grown tomato varieties, cherry, salad, slicer, paste, and
Farmer Picture Dictionary
This guidebook provides basic image based reference for vocabulary covering farm equipment, greenhouse items, insects, farmers markets, American currency, produce,
Crop Calendar
This calendar can be modified to provide an image based guide for starting, transplanting, and harvesting a variety of common
Organic Growing Methods
Powerpoint presentation for a basic intro to organic vegetable production workshop. Created by IRC Charlottesville. Related Resources… Micro-producer Academy: Program
Fig Air Layering Guide
This guide shows how to make new fig trees from the branches of one fig tree. A presentation by IRC
Crop Planning: Microproducer Academy
The Microproducer Academy is a series of lessons developed by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) for very beginning refugee farmers.
Growing and Marketing Peonies
Learn how to plant, harvest, and market peonies, a perennial spring flower. Farmers who own their land, or have a
Plant Heights for Farm Design Handout
A handout to show heights of various crops. This way, you can plan for a variety of plantings in both