Grow Your Own Food. We can help you start.
Grow Your Own Food. We can help you start.
real-world solutions, and a positive mindset. Organic vs Local. How to cut your heat but still stay warm (rocket mass heater), Gardening, Greywater, Soil health, composting and composting toilets. All with Paul Wheaton’s winking smart-ass wit.
Building a Better World in Your Backyard – Paul Wheaton Read More »
This book takes permaculture one step farther to incorporating the woods into your plans – through agroforestry, growing mushrooms, managing trees, and herding and feeding your livestock through the woods.
Farming the Woods: Incorporating the woods into your permaculture plan Read More »
This classic book laid out how to use agroforestry for “stock-food” (livestock) and “man-food”. Mulberry, chestnut, walnut, pecan, persimmons.
Tree Crops – A Permanent Agriculture Read More »
I like Akiva’s approach to trees. He classifies them, much like “Tree Crops”, but with more detail and resonance.
Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies – Akiva Silver Read More »
Your go-to guide for everything from cultivation to wine-making with one of humanity’s oldest plant friends
The Elderberry Book: Forage, Cultivate, Prepare, Preserve Read More »
This book gives you a starting place and a mindset for laying out your permaculture design, while not getting bogged down in the tools.
The Basics of Permaculture Design by Ross Mars Read More »
Your guide to building soil health: Compost, amendments, micronutrients.
Organic Matter – It’s What Plants Crave.
Soil Health is the Foundation of Your Garden Read More »
Even in winter’s coldest months you can harvest fresh, delicious greens and herbs! Niki Jabbour shares her simple techniques for gardening throughout the year.
The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Your Own Food 365 Days a Year Read More »
Leaf lettuce is a “cut and come again” crop. You can cut as much as you want, and the lettuce will regrow those leaves. This continues until it bolts or frosts.
Plant Leaf Lettuce to Eat Lettuce All Season Read More »
Go back to basics—compost, raising chickens, water and irrigation, dealing with pests, and much more—with this unique, full color bestseller (over 400,000 sold).
Mini Farming: Self Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre Read More »