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 & 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