Agriculture (Food, Gardens and Greenhouses)

Permaculture, Farming

 * Regenerative Design Institute (California Permaculture School)
 * Permaculture Media
 * FarmHack - Open-source community for resilient agriculture.
 * Food & Tech
 * Food Renegade
 * Edible Forest Gardens
 * Sustainable farming practices
 * Permaculture media resource
 * richsoil.com (permaculture articles)

Plant and gardening info

 * Growstuff - Online gardener community, seed exchange and open-source platform for regional gardening information (crop-planting times, best-suited varietals, etc.).
 * video
 * OpenFarm - Crowdsourced plant growing advice: "A wikipedia for gardening and farming."
 * video

Greenhouses

 * Nested Greenhouses (building a greenhouse within a greenhouse (and maybe within a third greenhouse) can extend the growing season, even allowing tropical plants to be grown in hard-winter zones.
 * Window gardens and greenhouse extensions to homes is one solution to intense winters, since homes will be heated more at night than greenhouses.
 * Seawater Greenhouse
 * Eco-Machines: natural waste-water treatment
 * Heat a Greenhouse During the Winter With Water
 * Winter Garden Crops
 * Home (and greenhouse) winterization
 * Walipini/Subterranean Greenhouse
 * Build a $300 underground greenhouse for year-round gardening (Video)
 * Greenhouse of the Future DVD, plans, etc.
 * Trailer Video

Automated Gardening

 * Farmbot - Open-source automated polycropping and precision farming.
 * TEDxUCLA presentation
 * Horto Domi: Open-source, automated Garden
 * Growerbot - Kickstarter

Aquaponics

 * One Way to Make Aquaponics Easier
 * Video
 * Arduino-based aquaponics
 * Backyard aquaponics: DIY system to farm fish with vegetables
 * Prefab systems
 * Kijani Grows - Oakland-based, Arduino-based aquaponics
 * Video
 * Eco Built Systems - modular sustainable dome homes, green building materials and bio-friendly aquaponics systems.
 * Integrated Aquaponics
 * Backyard Revolutions

Algaculture

 * DIY Spirulina Superfood Micro-Farm
 * See also Energy:Algaculture

Biochar, Terra Preta

 * Benefits
 * Increases population and diversity of soil microbes.
 * Increases and retains plant nutrients.
 * Reduces soil compaction, lower soil bulk density.
 * Increase water-holding capacity (save water).
 * Carbon negative.
 * Increase plant yield.
 * Video
 * TEDx Talk: Biochar: The Oldest New Thing You've Never Heard Of
 * TEDx Talk: Biochar -- Putting the carbon Genie back in the bottle
 * TEDx Talk: Biochar - the future of sustainable agriculture
 * International Biochar Initiative
 * UC Davis Biochar Database

Water Retention, Rain Harvesting, De-desertification, Irrigation

 * HarvestH2O.com
 * Before You Harvest - Water conservation practices
 * Water consevration articles
 * Tech
 * "Bioconcrete Turns Every Drop Of Rain Into Drinking Water"
 * WarkaWater - Non-mechanical, non-electric water condesation tower.
 * WIRED article
 * Video
 * Groasis Waterbox for planting seedlings in desert terrains.
 * DIY watermill irrigator
 * Books
 * Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands (Vol. 1): Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life And Landscape
 * Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond (Vol. 2): Water-Harvesting Earthworks
 * Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land: Lessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to Climate Uncertainty
 * Create an Oasis with Greywater: Choosing, Building and Using Greywater Systems - Includes Branched Drains
 * Desert or Paradise: Restoring Endangered Landscapes Using Water Management, Including Lake and Pond Construction


 * Videos
 * Harvesting Water - The Swale Plume 1.5 min
 * Regenerative Landscapes (swales and water retention) - Ben Falk 10 min
 * Permaculture Keyline Water Systems: Tom Ward @ Wolf Gulch Farm 11 min
 * The Miracle Water Village 13 min
 * TED Talk: Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting 19 min
 * WATER IS LIFE - The Water Retention Landscape of Tamera 10 min
 * 2 minute Version for Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2 min
 * Bali’s water temples
 * The Perfect Permaculture Fish Pond
 * DIY Natural Organic Pools
 * Small Dam/Pond Installation by Geoff Lawton
 * Mike's High Desert Permaculture Plan in Action

Sustainable Pest Control

 * Integrated pest management
 * Mycological
 * Paul Stamets at Bioneers (2011)
 * DIY Mosquito Trap (pesticide-free)

Animals & Holistic Management

 * Savory Institute


 * Videos
 * Allan Savory
 * TED Talk: How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change 22 min
 * Reversing Global Warming while Meeting Human Needs 77 min
 * Allan Savory Presenting at Harvard Law School 65 min
 * Rotational Grazing is NOT Holistic Management 2 min
 * Occam's Grazer: An In-depth Introduction to Holistic Management 45 min
 * How Grassfed Beef Will Save the World 80 min
 * Intensive Rotational Grazing - Whole Systems Design Carbon Farming 1 min
 * Holistic Management: Overgrazing is not what most people think it is 2 min
 * Presentation: Getting Results on the Land with Holistic Management 15 min
 * Putting Grasslands to Work Conference: 2 full days worth of lectures on holistic graing animal management.
 * Savory Institute Youtube channel

Beekeeping

 * opensourcebeehives.net

Biotech
See also: Wetlabs, Research


 * SMART breeding
 * nuPlant
 * Greenpeace summary on SMART Breeding
 * PLOS Biology: Diversifying Selection in Plant Breeding