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There are many wonderful sites to help you grow your own food. But it's easy to get lost in a morass of well-meaning growers who swear by grandpa's secret sauce ($9.95 plus shipping). Here are my top sites that are fact-based and appropriate for the Pacific Northwest.

Books

Visit your local library to see if you like the way they are written, and then find an independent bookstore and buy the ones you would reference frequently. [The irony of me using Amazon links is not lost.] BUY THE MARITIME NW GUIDE ... it is so easy to read and use. There are many others, but these are the most thumbed on my shelf.

The Maritime NW Garden Guide - Seattle Tilth Alliance
Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades - Steve Solomon
How to grow more vegetables - John Jeavons
Anything written by Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch

Videos

The Victorian Kitchen Garden Series (BBC)
The Wartime Kitchen and Garden
Peaceful Valley Organic Gardening

Online Courses and References

I have not taken these courses myself, but these are produced by growers and gardeners I trust:

Joe Lamp'l's Online Gardening Courses
Territorial Seeds Online Growing Guides