Specialty Mentorship Topic Resources

Fruits and Vegetables

Start Farming

High Tunnel Manual

Spotted Wing Drosophila, Overview and Identification Part 1; Monitoring Part 3, and Management Part 4,

Livestock

Greg Judy's website

Holistic Management International

Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision Making, Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield, Island Press

• Livestock for Landscapes

• Managing Your Pasture, NRCS,

• Mob Grazing: Is It Right for My Farm? What We Learned from Dairies in the
• Northeast, Mena Hautau, Penn State Extension,

• Hay and Forage

• Poisonous Pasture Plants, Dwight Lingenfelter and Bill Curran

• Poisonous Plants of Pennsylvania, by Robert J. Hill and Donna Folland, 1986 Edition, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

• Pasture Management on Organic Dairy Farms: Managing for Pasture Plant Health, Sarah Flack

Dairy and Cheese

• American Dairy Goat Association
• Managing Internal Parasites in Goats, Robert Van Saun, DVM, MS, PhD
• Prescribed Goat Grazing, Livestock for Landscapes
• PA Department of Agriculture Milk Sanitation Program

Urban Agriculture and Nutrition

Links to websites and printed material covering topics on Urban Agriculture and Nutrition recommended by Kirsten Reinford, PA-WAgN Specialty Mentor in the area of Urban Agriculture and Nutrition. Kirsten farms at Joshua Farm in Harrisburg, PA. Find more resources recommended by Kirsten at the farm's website

Urban Agriculture

Websites and Online Resources

• Capital District Community Garden: A non-profit organization focused on reducing "the impact of poor nutrition on public health in New York's Capital Region by organizing community gardens, providing healthy food access"
• Evolution or Gentrification: Do urban farms lead to higher rents? an article that appeared in Grist Magazine that offers a cautionary tale to urban farmers.
• The Food Trust: A Philadelphia-based non-profit that focuses on nutrition education and food access.
• National Agricultural Library's Urban Agriculture information: A collection of articles and websites gathered from Agricultural Extension departments at Land Grant Universities and USDA sponsored programs
• Wallace Healthy Urban Food Enterprise Development Center: Sign up for their e-newsletter to stay updated on research, funding, and opportunities related to urban food.

Books and Magazines

• Breaking Through Concrete: Building an Urban Farm Revival by David Hanson and https://agsci.psu.edu/wagn/resources/portal_factory/Document/document.2013-05-28.0579682731/editEdwin Marty. An introduction to a wide variety of urban farms throughout the USA, from rooftop gardens in New York to a school garden in LA.
• Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty by Mark Winne. This book makes a strong case for policies and partnerships to make fresh produce accessible to people of all income backgrounds, using his experiences in Hartford, Connecticut as a backdrop.
• The Essential Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter, Willow Rosenthal. The Essential Urban Farmer "guides readers from day one to market day, advising on how to find the perfect site, design a landscape, and cultivate crops."
• Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution by Jennifer Cockrall-King. A global look at urban farms and their role in food security.
• Urban Farm A magazine dedicated to urban farming

Nutrition

Websites and Online Resources

• eatright.com from the Academic of Nutrition and Dietetics: website of the largest organization of food and nutrition professionals; provides access to research and education on food and nutrition
• culinate: recipes, articles and links on sustainable cooking
• Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University: Comprehensive list of nutrition links compiled by one of the country's leading research institutes studying nutrition
• National Public Radio's Fitness and Nutrition section: stories and articles written and produced by NPR programming
• Nutrition.gov: Online shopping, cooking and meal planning
• Penn State Agricultural Extension's Nutrition Link: Free nutrition education programs aimed to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to achieve a healthful diet on a limited budget

On-farm Education and Value-Added Products

Books and Magazines

• Edible Schoolyard: A Universal Idea by Alice Waters. Chronicles chef Alice Water's collaboration with an urban middle school in Berkeley, California. The book offers stories on how the schoolyard garden integrates growing, cooking, and sharing food in a school setting.
• New good food: Essential Ingredients for Cooking and Eating Well by Margaret M. Wittenberg. Content focuses on cooking suggestions, nutrition descriptions and buying local
• Tufts Nutrition Magazine.
• What to Eat: An Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating by Marion Nestle. A book about "how to make sensible food choices."