Resources

Books on permaculture

These books may change how you think about the world:

• Introduction to Permaculture (Bill Mollison)
• Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual (Bill Mollison)
• Permaculture Design: A step-by-step guide (Aranya)
• Holzer Permaculture (Sepp Holzer)
• One Straw Revolution (Masanobu Fukuoka)
• Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)
• Story of B (Daniel Quinn)
• My Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)
• Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Toby Hemingway)
• A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Christopher Alexander)
• Permaculture Handbook, Bill Mollison
• Permaculture Design: A Step-by-step Guide (Aranya)
• The One Straw Revolution (Masanobu Fukuoka)
• Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Toby Hemingway)
• Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual (Bill Mollison)
• A Facilitator’s Handbook for Permaculture
• Beyond You and Me – Inspirations and Wisdom for Building Community
• Essence of Permaculture by David Holmgren
• Introduction to Permaculture (Bill Mollison)
• Sepp Holtzer’s Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening (Sepp Holtzer)
• Sepp Holzer: The Rebel Farmer (Sepp Holzer)
• People and Permaculture (Looby Macnamara)
• Essence of Permaculture (David Holmgren)
• Permaculture in a Nutshell (Patrick Whitefield)
• Permaculture One (Bill Mollison)
• Permaculture Two: Practical Design for Town and Country in Permanent Agriculture (Bill Mollison)
• The Earth Care Manual: A Permaculture Handbook for Britain and Other Temperate Climates (Patrick Whitefield)
• How to Live Off-Grid – Journeys Outside the System (Nick Rosen)
• Off the Grid: Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government and True Independence in Modern America (Nick Rosen)
• Gaia Education EcoVillage Design Education Curriculum
• Gaian Economics, by Jonathan Dawson, Ross Jackson and Helena Norberg-Hodge
• How to Set up a workers Co-op, by Radical Routes
• How to Set up a Housing Cooperative, by Radical Routes
• Abundant Living in the Coming Age of the Tree, by Kathleen Jennaway

Earthworks

• Water for Every Farm (PA Yeomans)

Natural building

• Cob Builder’s Handbook (Becky Bee)
• Cobber’s Companion (Michael Smith)
• Earthbag Building (Hunter and Kiffmeyer)
• Practical Straw Bale Building (Murry Hollis)
• The Barefoot Architect (Johan van Lengen)
• A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Christopher Alexander)
• The Whole Building Handbook: Health Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Eco-cycles and Place (Varis Bokalders)
• The Fifty Dollar and Up Underground House Book (Mike Oehler)
• The Barefoot Architect (by Johan van Lengen)
• The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage: the Real Goods Solar Living Book (Ianto Evans)
• Tipi Living (Simple Living Series Book (Patrick Whitefield)
• The Living Landscape: How to Read and Understand It (Patrick Whitefield)
• The Woodland Year (Ben Law)
• The Woodland House (Ben Law)

Water

• Multi-barrier water system handbook/Bio-char handbook (Pun Pun/Aqueous Solutions)
• Living Water (Viktor Schauberger)
• Create an Oasis with Greywater (Art Ludwig)
• Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands (Brad Lancaster)

Soil

• Humanure Handbook (Joseph Jenkins)
• Natural Farming (Dr Arnat Tancho)
• Mycelium Running (Paul Stamets)
• Food of the Gods (Terrance McKenna)

Mushrooms

• Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (Paul Stamets)
• Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms (Paul Stamets)
• Mushrooms Demystified (David Arora)
• The Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home (Paul Stamets)
• MycoMedicinals: An Informational Treatise on Mushrooms (Paul Stamets)

Nursery

• Growing Under Glass (Greenhouse book)
• Seed to Seed: Seed saving and growing techniques for vegetable gardeners (Susanne Ashworth)

Garden

• All New Square Foot Gardening (Mel Bartholomews)
• The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre! (Carleen Madigan)
• You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farming Enterprise (Joel Salatin)

Trees and Forests

• Edible Forest Gardens, Volume 2: Ecological Design and Practice and Temperature Climate Permaculture (Dave Jacke)
• The Complete Illustrated Guide to Planning, Growing Storing and Preserving your own Garden Produce (John Seymour)
• Tom Brown’s Field Guide to the Forgotten Wilderness (Tom Brown Jr)
• You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farming Enterprise (Joel Salatin)
• Folks, This Ain’t Normal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People and a Better World (Joel Salatin)
• Solar Gardening: Growing Vegetables Year-Round the American Intensive Way (Leandre Poisson)
• Everything I want to do is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Forest (Joel Salatin)
• The Earth Sheltered Solar Greenhouse Book (Mike Oehler)
• Permaculture in Pots: How to Grow Food in Small Urban Spaces (Juliet Kemp)
• How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grans and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine (John Jeavons)
• The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre! (Carleen Madigan)
• Perennial Vegetables: from Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, A Gardener’s Guide to Over 100 Delicious and Easy to Grow Edibles (Eric Toensmeier)
• Edible Forest Gardens, Volume I: Ecological Vision, Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture (Dave Jacke)
• Edible Forest Gardens, Volume 2: Ecological Design and Practice and Temperator Climate Permaculture (Dave Jacke)
• The New Self-Sufficient Gardener: The Complete Illustrated Guide to Planning, Growing Storing and Preserving your own Garden Produce (John Seymour)
• How to Make a Forest Garden (Patrick Whitefield)
• Forest Gardening: Cultivating an Edible Landscape (Robert Adrian de Jauralde Hart)
• The Woodland Way: A Permaculture Approach to Sustainable Woodland Management (Ben Law)
• Roundwood Timber Framing: Building Naturally Using Local Resources (Ben Law)
• All New Square Foot Gardening (Mel Bartholomews)
• The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer (Joel Salatin)
• Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City (Eric Toensmeier)
• The Permaculture Garden (Graham Bell)
• Tom Brown’s Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants (Tom Brown, Jr)
• The Farmers’ Handbook Volume 1: Inside the House
• The Farmers’ Handbook Volume 2: Near the House I
• The Farmers’ Handbook Volume 3: Near The House II
• The Farmers’ Handbook Volume 4: The Fields
• The Farmers’ Handbook Volume 5: All Zones
• The Fast Wild Food Cookbook by Johnny Jambalaya

Aquaculture

• Aquaponics Gardening (Sylvia Bernstein)

Kitchen

• Wild Fermentation (Sandor Katz)

Tools and Technology

• Dynapod manual
• Capturing Heat
• The Renewable Energy Handbook: A Guide to Rural Energy Independence, Off-Grid and Sustainable Living (William H. Kemp)
• The Future is Abundant: A Guide to Sustainable Agriculture (Larry Korn)
• Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into your Life and Landscape (Brad Lancaster)
• Rocket Mass Heaters: Superefficient Woodstoves You Can Build (Ianto Evans)