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  • Plants for a Future - a resource centre for edible and other useful plants
  • Ministry of Agriculture Allotment and Garden Guides, 1945 - 8 of the 12 guides published, now online as an e-book; fascinating!
  • A Museum of Agriculture with a superb web-site
  • Our Vegetable Travellers - a reprint of a National Geographic article of 1949; fascinating information!
  • Max Planck Institute Demonstration Garden - vegetable and plant crops, their origins, and economic importance.
  • NaturalHub.com - why do we eat vegetables; a gallop from pre-history to now!   Includes an AtoZ of a huge range of vegetables (accessible from the main page)
  • History of Gardening timeline
  • The origins of vegetables


  • Vegetables
    • The Garlic Farm - on the Isle of Wight; suppliers of garlic in all sorts of forms
    • Hampshire HDRA Group - includes a listing of local Potato Days.
      • West Yorkshire Potato Day - in Shipley College.
    • The European Cultivated Potato Database - huge resource on potato varieties and their characteristics.
    • Carroll's Heritage Potatoes - Northumbrian farm supplies a range of heritage potatoes; lots of information about varieties.
    • The Cabbage Page - a celebration!
    • The World Carrot Museum
    • Old Wheat's Home Page - a heritage wheat project
    • The Rhubarb Compendium


  • Fruit
    • Annual Apple Day events listing
    • Dumfries and Galloway Orchard Network encouraging fruit growing and eating in South West Scotland; not that far from Yorkshire! Lots of information on growing soft and tree fruits
    • Gloucestershire Orchard Group conserves, promotes and celebrates traditional orchards in Gloucestershire; lots of information on caring for tree fruits and nuts.


  • Other
    • Allotment Forestry - growing and using trees on or around an allotment
    • The Agroforestry Research Trust - a charity which researches into temperate agroforestry and plant cropping and uses, with a focus on tree, shrub and perennial crops; also has plants and seeds for sale.
    • NaturalHub.com - products and services to help grow food in the garden and farmlet.