# Online Resources

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">General community gardening skills: The GreenThumb website provides online resources and a variety of workshops on skills ranging from carpentry to garden design.</span>

[<u><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://www.nycgovparks.org/greenthumb/resources</span></u>](https://www.nycgovparks.org/greenthumb/resources)

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Taking care of tree beds: The Street Tree Care Captain webinar provides an introduction of tree bed care. </span>

[<u><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://www.nycgovparks.org/reg/advanced-stewardship</span></u>](https://www.nycgovparks.org/reg/advanced-stewardship)

Lady Bird Johnson Center, North Carolina Extension Gardener, The Plant Native, bplant.org, 

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Youtube channel: </span>[<u><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">GrowitBuildit</span></u>](https://www.youtube.com/@growitbuildit)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, amazing in-depth videos about specific native plants, soil quality/soil testing, garden design, installation and maintenance tips, and more</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Youtube channel: Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;"> Reddit: </span>\[<u><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">/r/NativePlantGardening</span></u>\](https://www.reddit.com/r/NativePlantGardening/)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span>\[<u><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">r/invasivespecies</span></u>\](https://www.reddit.com/r/invasivespecies/)

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span>[<u><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Xerces Society has incredible, detailed resources</span></u>](https://xerces.org/pollinator-resource-center/mid-atlantic)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;"> on pollinator conservation from site establishment, planting, plant selection, assessment, and so on.</span>

- [<u><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">New York Native Planting Guide</span></u>](https://static.nycgovparks.org/images/pagefiles/203/NYC-Parks-Native-Species-Planting-Guide-4th-Edition__6787ce9c83f47.pdf)
- [<u><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">GrowNYC Resilient Gardens Guide</span></u>](https://www.grownyc.org/files/osg/ResiliencyManual_ForWeb.pdf)

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">You can also join the </span>[<u><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">NYC Pollinator Working Group</span></u>](https://www.nycpollinators.org/)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;"> mailing list.</span>