FAVORITES

LINKS (Linking Innovation, Need and Know-how through Service) is an AmeriCorps program that seeks to connect local communities and individuals with one another to address critical community needs through results-driven service. LINKS partners with 50+ schools, nonprofits and government agencies, and each year, more than 200 LINKS AmeriCorps members serve in the greater Pacific Northwest Region. Anyone who is age 17 and up can become a LINKS member! Dedicating an average of at least 25 hours per month, LINKS members can earn an education award of $1,000-$4,725 for their service.

Smart Tools Academy
Our mission is to ensure that all Washington principals and superintendents, from public and private schools, share a vision and an understanding of the ways that technology can support and improve student learning and academic achievement. The Academy Web site is designed to provide tools and resources to help with the integration of technology in your learning environment.

NatureScaping
One of the premier garden sites in Clark County, Washington. NatureScaping is a method of landscaping that allows people and nature to coexist. By incorporating certain plants, especially native ones, into your yard you can attract insects, birds, and other creatures, and help keep our rivers and streams healthy.

Environmental Information Cooperative
Through the shared resources of a cooperative partnership, the EIC will create and nurture a greater awareness and stewardship for the environment and encourage action-taking by the people of Clark County that will protect, conserve, and restore our natural environment.

The School Garden Project
The School Garden Project of Lane County is a grassroots, non-profit organization dedicated to fostering hands-on, schoolyard-based learning experiences for children by creating vibrant and sustainable school gardens and habitats.

UC SAREP Cover Crop Resource Page
The UC SAREP Cover Crop Database includes over 5,000 items gleaned from more than 600 separate sources, including journal articles, conference proceedings, standard textbooks, unpublished data, and personal communications from researchers and farmers.

kidsgardening.com-teachers' resource room
The National Gardening Association's resource page for teachers. Includes curriculum resources tied to national standards and specialized subject matter to educate kids of all ages about good nutrition and gardening.

Three For Me
“A little volunteering goes a long way…parents must find time to participate in their children's education and schools must provide the supports necessary for them to be involved. The partnership that results between parents and teachers will improve student achievement and promote better cooperation between home and school. Three for Me will open the door to parents at every school."

2007 Organic School Garden Awards
School students nationwide, grades K through 12, are invited to enter this Organic School Garden Awards competition. If you're a kid who believes that you can improve your health and the health of the earth by gardening, this contest is for you!

WSU-Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources
The Mission of the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources is to foster approaches to agriculture and natural resource stewardship that are economically viable, environmentally sound, and socially responsive.

Famine Foods:
The Famine Foods Database: Plants that are not normally considered as crops are consumed in times of famine. This botanical-humanistic subject has had little academic exposure, and provides insight to potential new food sources that ordinarily would not be considered.

NRCS Washington
National Resources Conservation Service-Washington state web site. This site provides information on NRCS programs, news and events, office locations, conservation assistance and planning, and other information of interest to Washington state residents and partners.

Parent Teachers Association
The PTA offers many resources to it's members including premium educational content for members that want to advocate for children and run successful organizations. This link points to several training sessions that can be accomplished online for Grant Writing, Effective Advocacy for Your Child, Running a Successful PTA Program, Parliamentary Procedure, Planning and Goal Setting, Conflict Management, PTA Basics, etc.

GRANTS.GOV
Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for more than $400 billion in Federal grants. Grants.gov is THE single access point for over 1000 grant programs offered by all Federal grant-making agencies.

Permaculture Activist
The Permaculture Activist is the leading periodical for North American permaculture, an excellent resource in print since 1985. Articles address permaculture, edible landscaping, bioregionalism, aquaculture, among other topics. It also provides a current listing of upcoming permaculture design courses and serves as an important networking tool in the U.S., Canada, and Central America.

Papercrete
Papercrete, also called fibrous cement, is a remarkable building material made with recycled paper/cardboard, sand, and Portland cement.
You mix the dry ingredients together with water to make a slurry. This slurry dries into hard blocks that are strong (260 psi compressive strength), lightweight, and an excellent insulator (R 2 per inch). Papercrete holds its shape even when wet. Except for the cement, all the ingredients are free or almost free, which makes papercrete a very inexpensive building material. Although there are people who are building papercrete/paper adobe structures in the $1.00 a square foot range, a more realistic price is $5 - $10 a square foot. It all depends on how many of the materials (lumber, windows, etc.) you can scrounge. But no matter how you do it, building with papercrete/paper adobe is very inexpensive.

Plant Care Guides
100 of the most popular plants and provided the essential information you need for choosing, planting, and maintaining them. Click on a link or image to view the complete guide.

Operation Rubythroat
Although K-12 teachers and students are the primary target audience, Operation RubyThroat is open to ANYONE interested in hummingbirds.

Sante 7000
What is in your Food? This program looks up a table of 7,248 foods selected from the USDA survey database. 29 nutrients are shown in the detail.

USDA for Kids
USDA provides students, parents, and teachers with youth-geared information and resources related to agriculture.

Rural Roots
Rural Roots mission is to support and enhance sustainable and organic agriculture and community-based food systems in the Inland Northwest. Find farm fresh food in your community and information about food and farm events.

WSU Extension-Clark County
Master Gardeners
4-H and Youth Development
Food Safety & Nutrition
Horticulture & Small Farms
Natural Resources
Animal Sciences
Volunteer Programs

Center for Agriculture, Science and Environmental Education (CASEE)
An 80-acre classroom with a technology center, science laboratory, greenhouses, two ponds, 40 acres of timber, interpretive nature trails, three acre organic garden, a creek, wildlife habitat and much more.

Oregon State University Extension Service
OSU Extension is the "front door to OSU" and the premier provider of non-formula education that meets the needs of Oregonians and contributes significantly to strong individuals, families and communities; a vibrant economy; and sustainable natural resources.

CascadeLink
Your community information network. How to find public resources in Oregon and Washington.

Washington State Department of Ecology
Ecology is Washington's principal environmental management agency. Our mission is to protect, preserve and enhance Washington's environment, and promote the wise management of our air, land and water.

Slow Food USA
Slow Food Southwest Washington
Recognizing that the enjoyment of wholesome food is essential to the pursuit of happiness, Slow Food USA is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production; to the revival of the kitchen and the table as centers of pleasure, culture, and community; to the invigoration and proliferation of regional, seasonal culinary traditions; to the creation of a collaborative, ecologically-oriented, and virtuous globalization; and to living a slower and more harmonious rhythm of life.

Clark County Restorative Community Service Program
The Juvenile Court partners with a large array of community groups and organizations that provide juvenile offenders with a wide selection of meaningful opportunities to make amends for the harms done.

Southwest Washington Children’s Home Society Family Resource Center
Parents, educators, and kids can find helpful tips and resources, 24 hours/day, 7 days/week. PIRC is partially funded by the federal Dept. of Education Office of Innovation and Improvement's No Child Left Behind Act and we provide many resources to help parents support their child's education and to increase connections between schools and families.

RAFT (Renewing America's Food Traditions)
In order to preserve America’s endangered foods, we must return these foods to our fields, fishing grounds, and our feasts. With generous support from the Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust, the CS Fund, and the Cedar Tree Foundation, the RAFT campaign plans to utilize the following different approaches to realize this goal.

USDA Agricultural Research Service-Corvallis
The Corvallis location has three MUs whose missions are (1) to investigate fundamental aspects of the physiology and pathology of a wide range of horticultural and other crops, placing emphasis on stress and flowering physiology, breeding and genetics, cultural and biological control of diseases, and the biology and application of beneficial microorganisms, especially mycorrhizal fungi and rhizobacteria (HCRL); (2) to develop efficient, economical and sustainable forage seed cropping systems through improved control of diseases, insects, and weeds; on farm utilization of crop residues; devise technologies to increase forage seed recovery and seed lot purity; identify control mechanisms for vegetative and reproductive growth in wheat and ryegrass; and develop new resources of high-yielding hop germplasm with specific resin and aroma characteristics (NFSPRC); and (3) to collect, maintain, evaluate, and distribute to users clonally propagated germplasm of small fruits, hops, and mint, and to develop improved methods of propagating, maintaining, and evaluating vegetatively propagated germplasm (NCGR).

Columbia Resource Company
We are committed to improve the environment for the future of the communities we live in and serve.

Camas Alternative Program
The goal of the Camas Alternative Program (CAP) is to reach those students who are at risk for failure and drop out by providing an alternative method of imparting instruction and course work necessary for high school completion.

Jack, Will & Rob Boys & Girls Club
We feel it’s important to arm our members with the knowledge they need to stay healthy and safe, and we do so with a variety of small group clubs for all ages.

Camas School District
The mission of the Camas School District is to provide students with the ability to communicate effectively, use technology, reason, be self-confident, possess mental and physical health, and work effectively with others.

JD Zellerbach Elementary School
Our mission is to create a "learning community" where teachers, students and citizens are jointly involved in the advancement of knowledge and personal growth.

Food for Everyone Foundation
We encourage and assist in developing self-sufficiency in the production of food among people throughout the world by sponsoring, teaching and training classes and seminars; by providing financial assistance to worthy and needy students; and by assisting in providing materials, equipment, tools, seed, and fertilizers sufficient for trained students to achieve gardening success in their own communities.

Small Farms Library
Journey to Forever Online Library-HUGE online library and other resources for people interested in growing, preserving, and working around food. Schoolchildren are a special part of Journey to Forever -- this is a wonderful opportunity for students to learn about the issues that are so vital to the world they'll inherit.

Portland Permaculture Institute
"Our goal is to demonstrate and teach in ways that enable people to develop the skills necessary to live a more sustainable life on the planet."

Organic Materials Review Institute
The Organic Materials Review Institute provides certifiers, growers, manufacturers and suppliers an independent review of products intended for use in certified organic production, handling, and processing.

Resource Guide for Organic Insect and Disease Management
Organic farmers rely primarily on preventive, cultural and integrated methods of pest and disease management. This comprehensive guide from Purdue University lists and explains the use of different materials and methods.

The Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC)
The Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) is a non-profit 501(c)(3), North American organization dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for all people at all times.

National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service is created and managed by the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) and is funded under a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Business-Cooperative Service.

National Center for Appropriate Technology
Since 1976 the National Center for Appropriate Technology has been serving economically disadvantaged people by providing information and access to appropriate technologies that can help improve their lives.

The Washington Sustainable Food & Farming Network
Network members include farmers, environmental organizations, farmers' markets, faith-based groups, the natural foods industry, community organizations, anti-hunger and nutrition advocates, educators and individuals like you who are investing in a healthy future by supporting sustainable agriculture.

Organic Seed Alliance
Organic Seed Alliance, a nonprofit public charity, supports the ethical development and stewardship of the genetic resources of agricultural seed. We accomplish our goals through collaborative education and research programs with organic farmers and other seed professionals.

Slugs and Salal
All about gardening in the Pacific Northwest. Current, comprehensive information about gardening in Washington state, British Columbia and Oregon is at your fingertips when you need it. No more sorting old magazine articles, filing newspaper event notices, or searching through countless books for your year-round West Coast gardening information and inspiration! NEW INFORMATION WEEKLY.

GRAIN
GRAIN is an international non-governmental organization which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people's control over genetic resources and local knowledge.

Famine Foods: The Famine Foods Database: Plants that are not normally considered as crops are consumed in times of famine. This botanical-humanistic subject has had little academic exposure, and provides insight to potential new food sources that ordinarily would not be considered.

NRCS Washington National Resources Conservation Service-Washington state web site. This site provides information on NRCS programs, news and events, office locations, conservation assistance and planning, and other information of interest to Washington state residents and partners.

Famine Foods:
The Famine Foods Database: Plants that are not normally considered as crops are consumed in times of famine. This botanical-humanistic subject has had little academic exposure, and provides insight to potential new food sources that ordinarily would not be considered.

NRCS Washington
National Resources Conservation Service-Washington state web site. This site provides information on NRCS programs, news and events, office locations, conservation assistance and planning, and other information of interest to Washington state residents and partners.