If you are in the US, you have access to your state (and county) Cooperative Extension Service! This is a taxpayer funded program all across the nation. They exist to help gardeners garden better, farmers to farm better, homemakers to homemake better, 4H, and a host of other things. Quality depends on how well they are funded by the government. If yours is kind of crappy check out neighboring states with similar climates. Some still give out old, outdated info.
They have a ton of free information online and some even offer free or low cost classes. This is usually out of a land grant university in your state.
This matters b/c gardening has a HUGE local component. What works best in California is not what works best in Vermont, won't be planted at the same time, some types of plants and even down to the cultivars of the plants will do better in some situations and not in others.
planting calendar for Western North Carolina vegetables and herbs
Texas A&M page with a bunch of organic gardening resources in PDF form
Online Growing Groceries Classes 2025 with the King county (Seattle I think??) Master Gardeners - $8 per class each class is 1.5 hours long. Master Gardeners are trained volunteers who assist the Extension Service.
Midwest Blueberry Production Guide (PDF) - this is REALLY good I have it on my desk at work.
An online 4 hr beekeeping course from the Univ of Oklahoma for only $20
An online 10 hour poultry course from Penn State for only ~$50 - Penn State has a lot of really good online written resources on small time animal husbandry for free too.
UGA's National Center for Home Preservation - Did you know that the internet is full of terrifyingly unsafe food preservation info? Here's an excellent and free science-based resource for preserving your harvests on things you find on a great sale at the store.
Univ of Arizona extension event calendar of things they have going on all over the state.
Most classes used to be in person, but since the lock downs many of them are online.
If anyone needs any help with this, I'm happy to help, just let me know what state you're in and what kind of info you're looking for.
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