Library for the Development of a BioCulturally Diverse and Sustainable Lifestyle and Community
(see the actual book covers with links below)
Top Ten Essential, Practical Books for Everyone (so far!)
"Introduction to Permaculture"
"Food, Not Lawns"
"How to Grow More Vegetables"
"Seed to Seed (Second Edition): Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners"
"Teaming with Microbes - The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web"
"The New Create an Oasis with Greywater"
"Home Orchard: Growing Your Own Deciduous Fruit and Nut Trees"
BioCulturally Significant Books in red
(see the actual book covers with links below this list)
Community
"Growing a Garden City"
"How to Grow a School Garden: A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers"
"Inside the Edible Schoolyard Classroom: The Garden Companion"
"Local Money: How to Make it Happen in Your Community"
Parents
"Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Effects of Genetically Engineered Foods"
"Sunflower Houses: A book for Children and Their Grown-ups; Inspiration from the Garden"
"The Family Kitchen Garden: How to Plant, Grow and Cook Together"
Kids
"Compost By Gosh! An Adventure with Vermicomposting"
"Grow a House: Zeri Fables to Never Stop Dreaming"
Permaculture
"Gaia's Garden, Second Edition: A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture"
"The Basics of Permaculture Design"
Food Forests
"Creating a Forest Garden - Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops"
"Forest Gardening: Cultivating an Edible Landscape"
Science & Reference
"Botany for Beginners - Third Edition: The most useful and accesible introduction to the science of plants"
"The Timber Press Dictionary of Plant Names"
"The Rodale Book of Composting: Easy Methods for Every Gardener - Improve your soil, recycle kitchen wastes, grow healthier plants, create an Earth-Safe Garden"
"What's Wrong With My Plant (And How Do I Fix It?) A Visual Guide to Easy Diagnosis and Organic Remedies"
Food Gardening & Garden Concepts
"Renewing America's Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continents Most Endangered Foods"
"The Nonstop Garden: A Step-by-Step Guide to Smart Plant Choices and Four-Season Designs"
"The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times",
"You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening"
"Fruit & Nuts: A comprehensive guide to the cultivation, uses and health benefits of over 300 food producing plants"
Niche Food Products
"Good Spirits: A New Look at Ol' Demon Alcohol"
"Asian Vegetables: A Guide to Growing Fruit, Vegetables and Spices from the Asian Subcontinent" (India)
Super Nutrient Dense or Medicinal Foods
"Miracle Tree - Moringa Oleifera"
"Growing Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms"
Herbs
"Native American Medicinal Plants: An Ethnobotanical Dictionary - The medicinal uses of more than 3000 plants by 218 Native American Tribes"
Herbs for Home Treatment: A Guide to Using Herbs for First Aid and Common Health Problems" Anna Newton
Preserve & Process & Cook
"Nourishing Traditions"
"Cooking Close to Home: A Year of Seasonal Recipes"
"Build Your Own Earth Oven: A Low-Cost Wood-Fired Mud Oven; Simple Sourdough Bread; Perfect Loaves"
"Complete Book of Home Preserving"
Design & Landscape
Design & Landscape
"Gardening on Pavement, Tables, and Hard Surfaces"
"The Revolutionary Yardscape: Ideas for Repurposing Local Materials to Create Containers, Pathways, Lighting, and More"
Water
"The New Create an Oasis with Greywater"
"Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and all Climates: Helping Your Garden Flourish, While Conserving Water!"
Wildlife
"Songbird, Bat and Owl Boxes", Heaton, Long, Ingels and Hoffman
Homesteading
-"The Backyard Homestead"
"A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity"
"Aquaponic Food Production: Raising Fish & Plants for Food and Profit"
"Mortgage Free: Innovative Strategies for Debt Free Home Ownership"
"Food, Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community" | "Introduction to Permaculture", Bill Mollison
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"How to Grow More Vegetables", John Jeavons. Designed for all gardeners. | "Growing a Garden City", Jeremy N. Smith |
"How to Grow a School Garden: A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers", Arden Bucklin-Sporer, Rachel Kathleen Pringle | "Inside the Edible Schoolyard Classroom: The Garden Companion" Chez Panisse Foundation |
"Carrots Love Tomatoes - Secrets to Companion Planting for Successful Gardening", Louise Riotte | "All New Square Foot Gardening - Grow More in Less Space!", Mel Bartholomew |
"fruit & nuts: A comprehensive guide to the cultivation, uses and health benefits of over 300 food producing plants", Susanna Lyle | "Home Orchard: Growing Your Own Deciduous Fruit and Nut Trees", P.C. Ingels |
"You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening", Gayla Trail | "Seed to Seed (Second Edition): Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners", Suzanne Ashworth |
"Gaia's Garden, Second Edition: A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture", Toby Hemenway | "The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times", Carol Deppe |
"Native American Food Plants: An Ethnobotanical Dictionary - The food uses of more than 1500 plants by 221 Native American Groups", Daniel E. Moerman | "The Nonstop Garden: A Step-by-Step Guide to Smart Plant Choices and Four-Season Designs", Stephanie Cohen, Jennifer Benner |
"A Child's Garden: 60 Ideas to Make Any Garden Come Alive for Children" By Molly Dannenmaier | "The Family Kitchen Garden: How to Plant, Grow and Cook Together" |
"IPM for Gardeners: A Guide to Integrated Pest Management" By Raymoned A. Cloyd, Philip L. Nixon, and Nancy R. Pataky | "What's Wrong With My Plant (And How Do I Fix It?) A Visual Guide to Easy Diagnosis and Organic Remedies", David Deardorff, Kathryn Wadsworth |
"The Encyclopedia of Herbs: A Comprehensive Reference to Herbs of Flavor and Fragrance", Arthur O. Tucker, Thomas DeBaggio | "Native American Medicinal Plants: An Ethnobotanical Dictionary - The medicinal uses of more than 3000 plants by 218 Native American Tribes", Daniel E. Moerman |
"Fresh Food From Small Spaces: The Square Inch Gardeners Guide to Year Round Growing, Fermenting and Sprouting" | "Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition and Craft of Live-Culture Foods", Sandor Ellix Katz |
"The Rodale Book of Composting: Easy Methods for Every Gardener - Improve your soil, recycle kitchen wastes, grow healthier plants, create an Earth-Safe Garden", Grace Gershuny | "Teaming with Microbes - The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web" - Jeff Lowenfels & Wayne Lewis |
"American Horticultural Society Plant Propagation: The Fully Illustrated Plant-by-Plant Manual of Practical Techniques", Alan Toogood | "the self-sustaining garden: the guide to matrix planting", Peter Thompson |
"The Timber Press Dictionary of Plant Names" | "Botany for Beginners - Third Edition: The most useful and accesible introduction to the science of plants", Brian Capon |
"Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables", Mike & Nancy Bubel |
"Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage and Lactic Fermentation", The Gardeners and Farmers of Centre Terre Vivante and Deborah Madison |
Edible Forest Gardens: The Ecology and Design of Home Scale Food Forests - Dave Jacke | "Creating a Forest Garden - Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops" - Martin Crawford |
"Forest Gardening: Cultivating an Edible Landscape", Robert A. de J. Hart | "Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants", Douglas W. Tallamy
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"Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands (Vol. 1): Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life And Landscape", Brad Lancaster | "The New Create an Oasis with Greywater", Art Ludwig |
"Songbird, Bat and Owl Boxes", Heaton, Long, Ingels and Hoffman | "Drip Irrigation in the Home Landscape", L. Schwankle, T. Prichard |
"Gardening on Pavement, Tables, and Hard Surfaces", George Schenk | "The Revolutionary Yardscape: Ideas for Repurposing Local Materials to Create Containers, Pathways, Lighting, and More", Matthew Levesque
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"Aquaponic Food Production: Raising Fish & Plants for Food and Profit", Rebecca L. Nelson | A Handmade LifeIn Search of Simplicityby William Coperthwaite, Peter Forbes, John SaltmarshThe Nautilus Award 2004 |
Cooking Close To HomeA Year of Seasonal Recipesby Diane Imrie, Richard Jarmusz | "Local Money: How to Make it Happen in Your Community" Peter North |
Dig Your Hands in the DirtA Manual for Making Art Out of Earthby Kiko Denzer
| Compost, By Gosh!An Adventure with Vermicompostingby Michelle Eva Portman
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Grow a HouseZeri Fables to Never Stop Dreaming by Pamela Salazar, Gunter Pauli |
Mortgage Free! Second EditionInnovative Strategies for Debt-free Home Ownershipby Rob Roy |
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms Written by | Build Your Own Earth Oven A Low-Cost Wood-Fired Mud Oven; Simple Sourdough Bread; Perfect Loavesby Kiko Denzer, Hannah Field |
Genetic Roulette The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foodsby Jeffrey M. Smith | Good SpiritsA New Look at Ol' Demon Alcoholby Gene Logsdon
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Herbs for Home TreatmentA Guide to Using Herbs for First Aid and Common Health Problemsby Anna Newton
| How to Store Your Garden Produce, Revised Edition The Key to Self-Sufficiencyby Piers Warren |
Renewing America's Food TraditionsSaving and Savoring the Continent's Most Endangered FoodsEdited by Gary Nabhan
| Asian Vegetables A Guide to Growing Fruit, Vegetables and Spices from the Asian Subcontinent (India)by Sally Cunningham |
The Backyard Berry Book A Hands-on Guide to Gardening Berries, Brambles, & Vine Fruit in the Home Gardenby Stella Otto | The Basics of Permaculture Designby Ross Mars
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"Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and all Climates: Helping Your Garden Flourish, While Conserving Water!" Robert Kourik | "Sunflower Houses: A book for Children and Their Grown-ups; Inspiration from the Garden", Sharon Lovejoy |
"Complete Book of Home Preserving" Judi Kingry and Laura Devine | "Nourishing Traditions" Sally Fallon |