Resources

The Agriculture Resource Library.

Somebody should keep the map of everything useful in agriculture: the organizations, the data, the standards, the open source projects, the suppliers, the money, the events, the people who can help, and the 37,205 real places where food gets grown, sold, and made. This is our attempt. Every entry is described in our own words, every link is checked nightly to confirm it still responds, and nobody pays to be here.

What this is
The ag knowledge map
Knowledge entries
526
Places listed
37,205
Links
Verified nightly
Cost
Free, no account

Browse by category.

77 entries Organizations & communities The nonprofits, associations, and communities where growers help each other. 43 entries Open source Software and hardware you can use, study, and change. Health honestly badged. 50 entries Data & APIs Free weather, soil, market, and climate feeds, and what each one gives you. 19 entries Standards The specs that let farm equipment and software speak the same language. 51 entries Learning & media Trade publications, references, and the channels still worth your evening. 38 entries Inputs & safety Labels, registrations, and who to call before anything goes in the tank. 88 entries Suppliers & manufacturers Seed houses to greenhouse builders. Nobody pays to be here. 8 entries Funding Cost-share, grants, and loans that fit small and specialty-crop farms. 62 entries Events Recurring conferences and field days, listed by the month they usually run. 56 entries Universities & research Research programs that publish for growers, not just journals. 12 entries Maker spaces Shop tools you can use, and people who know how to use them. 22 entries Our own tools & data The things we built ourselves: calculators, data, sketches, standards.

How the Library stays honest.

Every card says what a thing is and what a grower gets from it, written by us, not copied from anyone's marketing page. A sweep probes every link nightly; a site that stops answering gets flagged on its card, and a resource that dies moves to the archive shelf instead of quietly rotting in place. Each card shows when we last checked it. There is no paid placement, no advertising, and no affiliate link anywhere in the Library.

Ten resources you didn't know existed.

All free, all real, all sitting there waiting. Proof of what the shelves hold:

  1. OpenET: satellite measurement of the water your own fields actually consumed, monthly, field by field, across 48 states.
  2. GRIN-Global: the USDA seed bank mails free samples from more than 600,000 accessions, including varieties you cannot buy anywhere.
  3. SoilWeb: stand in a field with your phone and see the full mapped soil profile under your boots.
  4. NEWA: free research-grade disease and insect forecasts from 700+ farm weather stations; growers using it report tens of thousands of dollars in avoided losses a year.
  5. uspest.org: 150+ degree-day pest models run against 20,000 weather stations, answering "when does this pest hatch at my place."
  6. CropScape: what every field around you grew, every year, for the last 15+ years, from satellite.
  7. Copernicus Browser: 10-meter vegetation imagery of your farm about every 5 days, no GIS skills needed.
  8. USDA Market News: the actual daily wholesale prices, free, as a website or a data feed. Never sell price blind.
  9. SARE's book library: the standard texts of sustainable agronomy, complete and free, including Building Soils for Better Crops.
  10. Ask Extension plus the National Plant Diagnostic Network: free phone-a-scientist, and a diagnostic lab in every state that will identify your mystery disease from a mailed sample.

Find places near you.

The Library also holds the places themselves: 37,205 farmers markets, farm stands, CSA programs, food hubs, farms you can visit, and processors, every one with its own page, organized by state and county. Owners can claim and correct their own listings.

6,946 places Farmers markets Where growers sell to the public 2,670 places On-farm markets Farm stores and stands 1,590 places CSA programs Buy a share of a season 450 places Food hubs Local product, at scale 13,397 places Agritourism Farms you can visit 2,541 places Farms Producers, incl. certified organic 7,324 places Processors Where livestock becomes food 54 places Farm to table Restaurants sourcing local 1,979 places Seed libraries Free seed you borrow like a book 1,075 institutions Colleges & universities Agriculture programs, 114 land-grant

Also state-organized: grower resources for all fifty states, the Extension services, regulators, and Master Gardener programs. Run one of the places listed? Claim your listing.

Know something we missed?

The Library grows by acquisition. If a resource belongs on these shelves and is not here, tell us about it. If you run one of the resources listed and something on your card is wrong, the same door works.

Frequently asked questions.

What is the Agriculture Resource Library?

A curated, kept-current map of agricultural knowledge and places: the organizations, data sources, standards, open source projects, publications, suppliers, funding programs, events, and research programs a grower might ever need, plus tens of thousands of real places to buy, sell, process and visit, organized by state and county. Everything is described in plain words, it is free, nobody pays for placement, and every link is checked nightly.

How do I find farmers markets or farms near me?

Pick your state in the Find places section above, or go straight to a category: farmers markets, on-farm markets, CSA programs, food hubs, agritourism, farms, processors, or seed libraries. Each state page shows everything on a map and by county, and every place has its own page. Owners can claim their listings and correct them; a verified owner's word outranks the federal feeds.

How is this different from other lists of farm resources?

Three ways. Most lists are written once and left to rot; we probe every link nightly and show the date we last checked. Most lists copy a site's own description; we write every card ourselves, saying what a grower gets from the resource. And most lists stop at one category; the Library shelves the whole landscape in one place, searchable together.

Do resources pay to be listed here?

No, and they cannot. There is no paid placement, no advertising, and no affiliate relationship anywhere in the Library. A resource is here because it is genuinely useful to growers. That standard is the entire business model, which is to say there is not one.

How do I suggest a resource for the Library?

Use the suggestion page linked from every shelf, or the site's contact page. Tell us what the resource is and what a grower gets from it. If it belongs, we verify it, write its card, and shelve it. Corrections to existing cards come through the same door and are genuinely welcome.