Gardening
"We encourage you to grow all the food that you feasibly can on your own property. Berry bushes, grapevines, fruit trees—plant them if your climate is right for their growth. Grow vegetables and eat them from your own yard. Even those residing in apartments or condominiums can generally grow a little food in pots and planters. Study the best methods of providing your own foods. Make your garden as neat and attractive as well as productive." Elder Spencer W. Kimball, April 1976 General Conference
Brochures
Why Garden?
Gardening is a valuable skill for producing food and for improving physical and mental health. Nurturing plants connects us to nature, God, and our communities while promoting environmental stewardship.
Community Resources
Provo Community Garden 405 N 100 East, Provo, Utah 84606
Community Action Services Gardens
Provo City Seed Library 550 N University Ave, Provo, Utah 84601
Garden Club 3400 WSC, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602
USU Extension Utah County Office 1426 E 750 N, Suite 202, Orem, UT 84097
Inspiring Fiction Books
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Kew Gardens
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Call Number: PR 6045 .O72 K4ISBN: 9780701168797Publication Date: 1969A modernist short story that offers a series of vignettes rather than a traditional plot, focusing on the lives and interactions of various characters within the Royal Botanic Gardens in London -
The Overstory
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ISBN: 9780393635522Publication Date: 2018-04-03The Overstory is a book for all readers who despair of humanity's self-imposed separation from the rest of creation and who hope for the transformative, regenerating possibility of a homecoming. If the trees of this earth could speak, what would they tell us? "Listen. There's something you need to hear." -
The Secret Garden
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ISBN: 9781467768528Publication Date: 2014-08-01Mary suddenly becomes an orphan and moves to her uncle's mysterious house in England. As she explores, she discovers a key to a secret garden and builds friendships with a local boy and her invalid cousin.
Inspiring Books
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
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ISBN: 9780060852559Publication Date: 2007-05-01Determined to integrate their food choices with their family values, Kingsolver and her family moved from suburban Arizona to a rural Appalachia, and embarked on an adventure of realigning their lives with the food chain. -
Braiding Sweetgrass
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ISBN: 9781571313355Publication Date: 2013-10-15An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American. -
Garden and Metaphor
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ISBN: 9783035626568Publication Date: 2023-10-24While for centuries the gardener's ambition was to control and subjugate nature, today it serves more as a place for retreat, a possible surrogate for wilderness, a habitat for animals or it fulfils the dream of self-sufficiency. -
On the Necessity of Gardening
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ISBN: 9789493246003Publication Date: 2021-11-23Through essays, illustrations and an extensive abecedarium, On the Necessity of Gardening reflects on the garden as an abiding metaphor for society and culture. -
Radical Gardening
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Call Number: SB 454.3 .S63 M395x 2011ISBN: 9780711230309Publication Date: 2011-05-17War is the natural occupation of man ... war-and gardening. - Winston Churchill to Siegfried Sassoon, 1918 -
The Seed Detective
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Call Number: SB 320.5 .A44 2022ISBN: 9781915294081Publication Date: 2022-09-12Meet the Indiana Jones of vegetables and join him on his quest to save our heritage produce.
