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What IS The Sustainable Gardening Library? Intro (Part 1 of 5)

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Check it out https://sgi-gardenlibrary.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html People ask me that all of the time. I like to think of it as the go-to resource for sustainable gardening information. We include farming and landscaping practices, too. We’re putting everything in one place so people who want to grow flowers and food, or create outdoor living spaces in more Earth-friendly ways, don’t have to spend hours searching all over the web to find what they need. But it isn’t what most people think of as a traditional library. How the Sustainable Gardening Library is the same as a specialized public library: It’s free. Anyone can use it. It’s organized by categories. It’s a library devoted to a single specialty: Sustainable gardening and farming. It hosts a variety of materials: Documents, spreadsheets, images, videos, and links to materials on our content providers’ websites.   How the Sustainable Gardening Library is different from a public library: It’s a digitall