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I'm looking for a place to find any special info on soil nutrients, and simple image comparison type diagnostics. Something like the Wikipedia of a farmer's almanac or something. I'm looking for the best public commons type sources with no ulterior motives or influences; farm nerds for farm nerds.

I'm not looking for copy and paste articles, ads funded nonsense, or anyone that is influenced by sponsorships or product reviews of any kind.

If I have holes in the leaves of my tomato plants, or want to know the ideal lighting conditions, or soil pH, or hydroponics versus potted watering regimes, etc., I want to know where to look for info with everything from basic to advanced academic level depth.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

trefle.io has data from various sources, though a lot of pages are rather empty.

[โ€“] Kalkaline 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The public library and your agriculture extension are the two easiest sources to find high quality sources.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

LibGen's probably go digital stuff if he's into that

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Your local county extension office and nearby universities with agricultural programs.

Example: https://extension.uga.edu/publications/series/detail.html/71/home-garden.html

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It's all going to be copyrighted but CSU's extension is phenomenal:

https://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/agriculture/

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

As others have stated, you want to contact your local co-op extension if you're in the states.

https://extension.org/find-cooperative-extension-in-your-state/

The Cooperative Extension System is a non-formal educational program implemented in the United States designed to help people use research-based knowledge to improve their lives. The service is provided by the state's designated land-grant universities. In most states, the educational offerings are in the areas of agriculture and food, home and family, environment, community economic development, and youth and 4-H. (wiki)

They'll have free soil sample kits, articles and programs/classes for local agriculture, etc etc.

Anything else will be pirated, shitty ad filled ai knockoff apps, or finding a forum of like minded individuals you can ask. There are plenty of resources out there but a "one stop shop" I haven't found. The problem stems probably from location, information is vast and mostly irrelevant if you're not in the same growing zones. The local co-ops will have individuals, employees, and articles posted up, they're really helpful when it comes to reaching out to them in my experience.