Vegetable Garden
Important Resources
- Food Smart Colorado – Nutrition, Food Safety, and Health Resources from CSU Extension
- Colorado Vegetable Planting Guide – A guide for the backyard vegetable garden, covering all regions of Colorado
- Preventing E. coli From Garden to Plate
- Storage Lengths and Temperatures of Harvested Vegetables
- Native flowers and bushes for Colorado landscapes
Selling Farm Products
- Colorado Farm to Market – navigate what regulations you must comply with to sell your products.
- CO Cottage Food Act – its easy to sell home-made/home-grown jams, eggs, honey, and more.
Resources
Resources & Helpful Information
SAM Webinars and Web Videos
- No-water Gardening for Higher Elevations (above 7500’) Webinar
- Safe Food Handling for Urban Gardeners
- Herbicide Carry Over and Fall Garden Tips
- Colorado Native Fruits
- Stone Fruits for Colorado below 7000’
- The Importance of Rootstock Selection when Growing Fruit Trees
- Apples for Colorado below 7000′
- Blueberries for Colorado Gardens
- Raspberries for Colorado below 7000′
- Bio-Intensive Growing for the Mountains
- High Tunnel Specialty Crop Production in Colorado
- Food Safety and Direct Marketing
- Native Plants – Saving You Time and Money!
SAM Newsletter Articles
- Protecting Plants from Wild Weather this Spring – spring 2021
- Can Specialty Crops and Solar Thrive Together? – spring 2020
- Transplanting Warm Season Vegetables – spring 2020
- Gardening Hacks for Extreme Colorado – summer 2019
- Microgreens Production
- More to the Business than Harvesting and Selling – winter 2019
- An Apple A Day – winter 2018
- Tips for Managing – winter 2018
- Canning 101 – fall 2017
- Grow Food-Grade Grain Sorghum – fall 2016
- What is Soil and How Does it Form? – spring 2015
- Soil Health and Vermicompost – spring 2015
- Grow Some Vegetables! – winter 2015
- High Tunnels: Strategies and Suggestions from Hidden Mesa – fall 2014
- Caution on Compost—Can it be too much of a good thing? – summer 2014
- Naturally Control Insects and Rodents – winter 2013
- Home Grown Wheat – fall 2013
- A Menu of Organic Fertilizers – fall 2012
- Grow Lavender! – summer 2012
- Setting Up a Drip Irrigation System – spring 2012
- Grow Hops in Colorado – fall 2011
- Herbicide Contaminated Organic Matter Kills Vegetables – summer 2011
- Understanding How Raspberry Plants Grow – spring 2011
- How to Grow Blueberries in Colorado – winter 2011
- Stop the Japanese Beetle – fall 2010
- Colorado Quinoa – fall 2010
- Use “weedy” Natives to Fight Noxious Weeds – summer 2010
- Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food – winter 2010
- What’s In Your Garden: Weed or Wonderful? – summer 2009
- Creating an Heirloom Vegetable Garden – spring 2009
- Native Edibles – fall 2009
Organic Growing
- National Organic Program – USDA Organic Certification information
- eOrganic– articles, videos, resources, Q&A, and more
- Vegetable Farmers Guide to Organic Certification – National Young Farmers Coalition guide for growers interested in the certification process
- USDA-NRCS – EQIP Organic Initiative (Environmental Quality Incentives Program) can assist in organic related conservation practices with technical and financial support
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