Here’s a list of videos, people, books, ideas, etc that I have found helpful while learning about growing food and climate change. As a starting point, check out the Last Ditch YouTube Playlists.
Topics Sorted A-Z
Agricultural History 🐖
Animal Care 🐑
Bees + Pollinators 🐝
Business of Farming 💵
Climate Change🔬
Critical Conversations💡
Crop Management 🌶️
Decolonize Your Mind ✊
- Visit the Last Ditch playlist on Decolonization and Land Justice
- Learn about the Wet’suwet’en and their fight against Coastal Gaslink
- Visit Amazon Watch
- Read the Decolonize Palestine Guide
- Guide to the Conflict in DR Congo
- Sowing the Seeds of Food Justice: A Guide for Farmers Who Want to Supply Low-Income Communities While Maintaining Financial Sustainability
Disease + Pest Control 🐞
Ecology, Biology, and More Science 🌿
Farm Planning + Management 👩🏻🌾
Fruit Trees + Orchards 🌳
- The Holistic Orchard book
Garden Design 👩🎨
Growing Food 🍅
Land Justice + Resistance ✊
- Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege
- Land Justice: Re-imagining Land, Food, and the Commons
- Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
- Braiding Sweetgrass
- Seeding Sovereignty Instagram
- Soul Fire Farm
Mushrooms + Mycology 🍄
Permaculture + Land Regeneration Sites 🌍
- Gaia’s Garden: A Home-scale Guide to Permaculture
- Practical Permaculture
- The Permaculture Principles – Andrew Millison
- Free Permaculture Course
- Food Not Lawns (free e-book)
- PEPÁḴEṈ HÁUTW̱ (Victoria, BC)
Regenerative Agriculture 🚜
Soil + Compost 🍂
Trees + Forests 🌲
Urban Farms & Farming 🏙️
- Free Urban Agriculture Introduction Course- Oregon State University
- City of Vancouver Urban Farm Checklist
- Tips to Ensure Your Urban Farm Doesn’t Fail
- Tips for Urban Gardeners
Water + Irrigation💧
MORE RESOURCES
🌱 YOUTUBE PLAYLISTS
▪️Last Ditch YouTube playlists page: all of my video playlists on a huge range of topics. Playlists with a 🌱 emoji are of original content produced by me.
🗣️SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS
▪️ Black Forager – Alexis Nikole
💰 SHOPPING
🔹 Not Amazon
🔹 Massy Books (Massy Books is 100% Indigenous owned and operated)
🔹 West Coast Seeds (Canada only)
🔹 Salt Spring Seeds (Canada only)
🔹 Find your local seed company and nursery!
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