Our Recommended Readings
A carefully curated resource library for the beginner growers, the permaculture lovers, the no-dig gardener, the food forest enthusiast, small & large-scale regenerative farmers and everyone in between with a passion for plants, pollinators, soil and restoring our planet, one local eco-system at a time.
"The wise & humble read nature first and books a close second; to integrate and expand their observations with nature."
Home Growers
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The Resilient Farm & Homestead -By Ben Falk
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Landrace Gardening - By Joseph Lofthouse
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Plant Partners: Science-Based Companion Planting -By Jessica Wallister
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Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home Scale Permaculture-By Toby Hemenway
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The Intelligent Gardener: Growing Nutrient-Dense Food
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The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments- By Nigel Palmer
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Japanese Style Companion Planting -By Toshio Kijima
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Carrots Love Tomatoes -By Louise Riotte
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No Dig-By Charles Dowding
Natural Farming
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Restoration Agriculture: Real-World Permaculture for Farmers -By Mark Shepard
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The No-Till Organic Vegetable Farm- By Daniel Mays
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Growing Green-By Jenny Hall & Iain Tolhurst
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Jadam Organic Farming -By Youngsang Cho
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The Resilient Farm & Homestead -By Ben Falk
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Bug-Free Organic Gardening: Controlling Pest Insects without Chemicals -By Anna Hess
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Regenerative Agriculture - A Practical Whole Systems Guide to Making Small Farms Workw List Item
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The Worm Farmer’s Handbook: Mid- to Large-Scale Vermicomposting -By Rhonda Sherman
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The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming -By Masanobu Fukuoka’s
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The Power Of Duck- By Takao Furuno
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Permaculture
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Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home Scale Permaculture-By Toby Hemenway
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Permaculture: A Designers' Manual - By Bill Mollison
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Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming
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The Permaculture Earthworks Handbook -By Douglas Barnes
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Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages -By Diana Christian
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Farming the Woods: An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food -By John Stika
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Earth User's Guide to Permaculture -By Rosemary Morrow
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The Permaculture Handbook- By Peter Bane
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The Food Forest Handbook-By Darrell Frey & Michelle Czolba
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Building Your Permaculture Property-By Rob & Michelle Avis And Takota Coen
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The Permaculture Market Garden: A visual guide to a profitable whole-systems farm business Paperback
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Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops -By Martin Crawford
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Integrated Forest Gardening: The Complete Guide to Polycultures and Plant Guilds in Permaculture Systems
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Introduction to Permaculture -By Bill Mollison & Remy Mia Slay
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The Bio-Integrated Farm: A Revolutionary Permaculture-Based System Using Greenhouses, Ponds, Compost Piles, Aquaponics, Chickens, -By Shawn Jadrnicek
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Edible Forest Gardens (2 volume set) -By Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier
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Permaculture 2 -By Bill Mollison
Market Growers
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The No-Till Organic Vegetable Farm- By Daniel Mays
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The Market Gardener -By Jean Martin Fortier
Plants, Trees & Companions
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Teaming With Nutrients- By Jeff Lowenfels
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Japanese Style Companion Planting-By Toshio Kijima
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Plant Partners: Science Based Companion Planting Strategies- By Jessica Walliser
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Coppice Agroforestry: Tending Trees for Product, Profit, and Woodland Ecology -By Mark Krawczyk
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Cold-Hardy Fruits and Nuts: 50 Easy-to-Grow Plants for the Organic Home Garden or Landscape -By Allyson Levy
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Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening- By Louise Riotte
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Perennial Vegetables: From Artichoke to Zuiki Taro, a Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-grow Edibles -By Eric Toensmeier
Sacred Seeds
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The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Seed Saving -By Lee Buttala
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Seed To Seed -By Suzanne Ashworth
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The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds: 322 Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, Flowers, Trees, and Shrubs -By Robert Gough and Cheryl Moore-Gough
Living Soil
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A Soil Owner's Manual: How to Restore and Maintain Soil Health
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Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
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Regenerative Growers Guide To Garden Amendments-Nigel Palmer
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Roots Demystified: Change Your Gardening Habits to Help Roots Thrive -By Robert Kourik
Fungi
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Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation: Simple to Advanced -By Tadd Cotter
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Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms -By Paul Stamets
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Teaming With Fungi-By Jeff Lowenfels
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The Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms: Simple and Advanced Techniques -By Stephen Russell
Community Care
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Creating A Life Together- By Diana Leafe Christian
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People & Permaculture-By Looby Macnamara
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Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community-By Diana Leafe Christian
