**Simple, appropriate technologies for great garden outcomes**

Meeting your environmental goals is easier when you track your progress and use what you learn to improve your practices--and results--over time. The basic cycle of "adaptive co-management" (pardon the jargon) is goal setting, action, monitoring, reflection, and adaptation. This toolkit comes in two parts: 

* **Guides for organizing**
* **Guides for tool making and research methods**

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#Guides for Organizing

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###Start Here
Collaboratively create a picture of your place.

[Link to Start Here guide](/wiki/start-here)

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###Set Goals
Define your goals and choose which ones you want to measure progress towards.

[Link to Setting Goals guide](/wiki/setting-goals)

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###Choose how to track your progress
Choose how you want to measure, then design fun, "field-proof" measuring activities.

[Link to Choosing How To Track Your Progress Guide](/wiki/choosing-how-to-track-progress)

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###Schedule the season
Schedule out daily and occasional events across the whole season. 

[event guide](link!!!)

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###Reflect and Look Forward 
Come together to review and reflect on a season's worth of observations. Take stock of last year's outcomes and make adjustments as needed for the upcoming year.

[event guide](link!!!)

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#Guides for tool making and research methods

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###1. Pole mapping guide
Change your perspective! See your garden from above. Map your garden layout and track changes through the years.

[Link to Pole Mapping Guide](/wiki/pole-mapping-guide)

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###2. Infrared imagery experiment guide
See plants photosynthesizing. Experiment with cultivation methods and see which types of plants thrive. Can be combined with [pole mapping](/wiki/pole-mapping)

[Link to Infrared imagery experiment guide](/wiki/infrared-garden-experiment)

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###3. Program tracking guide
Growing tons of food? Diverting compost from the waste stream? Coordinating work among lots of volunteers? If you're tackling these or other programs in your garden, barn.farmingconcrete.org has simple methods that you can use.  

[how-to guide](link!!!)