Obviously this is gonna be a couple years down the line, so I'm looking for books, videos, tutorials, whatever that can help me get started. Preferably books, but I'll take literally anything because all i know is "seed go in dirt, water dirt"
Hey comrade, I've been building and maintaining vegetable gardens for most of my adult life, feel free to message if you have any questions.
What climate are you in? I would highly recommend you consider that any advice you find on the internet can often be limited by your climate.
But honestly if you want to start a community garden you don't actually need to know how to garden yourself, you just need to be able to build the space and get decent soil. Honestly carpentry might be a more useful skilllset than gardening to build a community garden. Members of your community will have a lot of their own wisdom when it comes to what to grow and how.
I cannot praise the Farmer's Almanac enough as a resource, they have almost everything you could need.
My starter advice would be to pick 2-3 things you know you'll eat, look up how to grow them on Farmer's Almanac and youtube, then give it a try.
Off the top of my head...
First step is to figure out basic stuff.
How big of an area? How much rain and when? Seasons? Storms? Soil health and possibly the geology under the soil? What's your growing zone and how is that changing with the shifting climate?
Next two things, how much labor do you have to maintain the project and what are you wanting to grow?
Legal stuff is probably going to be super important. What is the property zoned for? How does the local city council/mayor/cheiftan/etc feel about this type of project? Is there community interest? Is there enough to sustainably support this project?
