Resources

Useful Websites

• Agricultural Marketing Service
• United States Department of Agriculture
• ams.usda.gov
• Provides complete information on the National Organic Program, including a list of certifiers and the list of allowed and prohibited synthetic materials

• Harris Manufacturing
• wonderweeder.com
• Maker of the Wonder Weeder

• Mayhaw Recipes
• Louisiana Mayhaw Association
• mayhaw.org/original/recipes.html

• National Climate Data and Information Archive
• Environment Canada
• climate.weatheroffice.gc.ca

• Natural Resource, Agriculture, and Engineering Service
• nraes.org
• Publishes practical books related to agriculture, including the On-Farm Composting Handbook (NRAES-54. Edited by Robert Rynk, 1992)

• NOAA Regional Climate Centers
• National Climatic Data Center
• ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/regionalclimatecenters.html

• Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI)
• omri.org

• USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, 2012 update
• United States National Arboretum
• usna.usda.gov/Hardzone

• USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, 1990
• United States National Arboretum
• planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/Downloads.aspx

Budgeting Tools

• Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs
• omafra.gov.on.ca/english/busdev/bear2000/Budgets/budgettools.htm#tree
• Budgets for various commodities

• Enterprise Budgets: Planning for Profit
• British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture
• agf.gov.bc.ca/busmgmt/budgets/tree_fruits.htm
• Budgets for various commodities

Publications Cited in Text

• Canadian General Standards Board. “Organic Production Systems General Principles and Management Standards.” CAN/CGSB-32.310-2006.

  Available on the Canadian General Standards Board website, www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/ongc-cgsb

• Canadian General Standards Board. “Organic Production Systems: Permitted Substances List.” CAN/CGSB-32.311-2006.

  Available on the Canadian General Standards Board website, www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/ongc-cgsb

• Childers, Norman F., Justin R. Morris, and G. Steven Sibbett. Modern Fruit Science, 10th ed. Horticultural Publications, 1995.
• Westwood, Melvin Neil. Temperate-Zone Pomology, W. H. Freeman and Company, 1978.