Further afield

South Carolina's own answers on planting dates, pests, soil and the Joro spiders.

Look up your growing zone by ZIP code, from the 2023 edition of the map.

Heirloom and open-pollinated seed chosen for the Southeast's heat and humidity.

Keeping heirloom seed alive since 1975, with guides to saving your own.

A long-running permaculture forum. Search before you ask; someone has tried it.

Swap a little lawn for native plants and put your yard on the map of wildlife habitat.

Conservation of pollinators and other invertebrates, with planting lists by region.

Photograph what lives in your yard, get it identified, and share it with researchers.

Report Joro spider sightings to the University of Georgia's tracking project.

A magazine served from a solar-powered server that goes offline when the battery runs out.

A network of small solar servers that hands visitors to whichever one has the most sun.

NREL's free estimate of what a solar array will produce at your address, month by month.

Open-source hardware and software for measuring electricity, solar and storage at home.

Principles and a shared model for estimating the carbon cost of a website.

Paste in any page and see roughly how much carbon each visit costs.

Repair guides and parts. The cheapest computer is the one you already own.

Open blueprints for the machines a small community needs, from tractors to brick presses.

The definition of open hardware, and a free certification for projects that meet it.

Open-source machines and a worldwide community for small-scale plastic recycling.

An open building system: house parts cut from sheet material and put together by hand.

A wiki of appropriate technology and sustainability projects, written by practitioners.

Open-source firmware for off-grid text messaging over cheap LoRa radios.

Another open-source LoRa mesh firmware, popular for fixed solar repeaters.

Wikipedia and other reference sites, downloaded and readable with no connection at all.

An offline library of books, maps and courses, served over Wi-Fi from a Raspberry Pi.

Open-source maps and navigation that work offline and don't track you.

Non-profit, community-run hosting for code and project files.

Short fiction, poetry and essays that imagine the future worth working toward.

Twenty-two points on what solarpunk is for, gathered from many writers by ReDes.

Grist's climate fiction contest, and free collections of the stories it has found.

A small classic from 1990, and where naming machines after garden jobs started.

Plain-spoken mutual aid toolbox: how groups organize rides, food, childcare and more. Not updated since 2022, still useful.

How to start a free, volunteer-run repair meetup in your own town.

An open-source, crowd-built map of license plate reader cameras across the US.

EFF's searchable database of the surveillance tech police departments use.

EFF's plain-language guide to how plate readers work and what they record.

EFF's practical privacy guides for individuals and community groups.

UW Center for Human Rights report (Oct 2025) on how Flock camera data reached Border Patrol.