Ajo Community Supported Agriculture

LINKS

Links:

• Crooked Sky Farms: www.crookedskyfarms.com
• Tucson CSA: www.tucsoncsa.org
• Tucson Food Conspiracy Coop: www.foodconspiracy.org
• Phoenix Downtown Market: www.foodconnect.org/phoenixmarket/
• Tucson Community Food Bank: www.communityfoodbank.com
• Ajo International Day of Peace: www.peaceajo.org
• Michael Pollan article in NY Times: Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/magazine/02cooking-t.html?_r=1&em
• Michael Pollan article in NY Times: Big Food vs. Big Insurance http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/opinion/10pollan.html
• Leigh Hopkins article on CSAs (featuring raw fods demo in Ajo): http://www.suite101.com/view_image.cfm/744632

Books (general food-related):

• Michael Ableman: Fields of Plenty
• Jane Goodall: Harvest for Hope
• Barbara Kingsolver: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
• Gary Nabhan: Coming Home to Eat, The Desert Smells Like Rain
• Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food, The Botany of Desire

Gardening books/websites/resources:

• Extreme Gardening, by David Owens. Poco Verde Landscape. 2000. 
• Square Foot Gardening, by Mel Bartholomew. Cool Springs Press. 1981. 
• Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening, by Louise Riotte. Storey Publishing, 1998. 
• Desert Harvest: A Guide to Vegetable Gardening in Arid Lands, by Jane Nyhuis. Growing Connections, 1982. 
• Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1 and 2, by Brad Lancaster. Rainsource Press, 2006. 
• U of A Extension, Maricopa County Planting Guide:
  http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/az1005.pdf 
• The Urban Farm Low Desert Planting Guide: http://www.urbanfarm.org/Planting_Calendar.pdf 
• Tucson Community Food Bank (free gardening workshops)

Movies and video: 

• Fresh - new thinking about what we're eating (movie): http://www.freshthemovie.com
• Food Inc. (movie): http://www.foodincmovie.com
• Dirt: The Movie: http://www.dirtthemovie.org