Introductory Permaculture Books
Toby Hemenway. 2009. Gaia’s Garden. Chelsea Green Publishing.
Bill Mollison. 1995. Introduction to Permaculture. Targari Press.
Advanced Permaculture Books
Bill Mollison. 1988. Permaculture: a Designers Manual. Targari Press. This book is a treasure and should be easily available to everyone, but the publishers are shamelessly selling at premium price. So, forget them and find a free PDF version. They’re easy to find.
Dave Jacke. 2005. Edible Forest Gardens. Chelsea Green Publishing. Both volumes are excellent, but they are expensive. Again, shameless marketing at work. If you must choose, purchase Volume II (2!).
Homesteading
Barbara and Ken Kern. 2016. The Owner-built Homestead. Echo Point Books and Media. Originally printed in 1961, this prize is back in print!
Gene Logsdon. 2016. Homesteading: How to Find New Independence on the Land. Echo Point Books and Media. Originally printed in 1973, this prize is back in print!
Gardening
John Seymour. 2008. The New Self-Sufficient Gardener. DK.
Fern Marshall Bradley and Barbara W. Ellis, eds. 2008. Rodale’s Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening. Rodale Books.
Critters
Harvey Ussery. 2011. The Small-Scale Poultry Flock: An All-Natural Approach to Raising Chickens and Other Fowl for Home and Market Growers. Chelsea Green.
Water
Brad Lancaster. 2008. Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond. Chelsea Green.
Tim Matson. 1991. Earth Ponds: The Country Pond Maker’s Guide to Building, Maintenance, and Restoration. The Countryman Press. https://earthponds.com/
Food Preservation
Sandor Ellix Katz. 2012. Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods. Chelsea Green.
Sandor Ellix Katz. 2003. The Art of Fermentation. Chelsea Green.
Biochar
Link to a succinct introduction to biochar. http://www.s-o-solutions.org/htdocs/biochar.html
Link to an article explaining how biochar production works. https://www.biochar-journal.org/en/ct/47
Link to a photo essay featuring an easy way to make biochar. For those of you with large slash piles, I urge you to disassemble them into piles with 2-3 cords stacked as I recommend in the linked photo essay. (This photo essay is a post on this blog page.)
Link to a primitive design for a variation on the Pennsylvania Cone Kiln. https://www.designedecosystems.com/uncategorized/variations-on-the-pennsylvania-biochar-kiln/
Practical Skills
Gene Logsdon. 1985. Practical Skills. Rodale Press.
Field Guides
John Johnson Craighead. 1974. A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers from Northern Arizona and New Mexico to British Columbia. Peterson Field Guides.
Frank Brockman. 1968. Trees of North America: A Guide to Field Identification, Golden Field Guides.
Steve Trudell and Joe Ammirati. 2009. Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest. Timber Press Field Guides.
Roger Phillips. 2010. Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Firefly Books.
Author’s Note:
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