Question What is the best permaculture book for people on less than an acre?

Options Apple Poll People's Choice
Current Votes Vote Current Votes Vote
"The Organic Gardner's Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control" 0 + -1 + -
Amy Stross's "The Suburban Micro-Farm: Modern Solutions for Busy People" 1 + 0 + -
Anna Hess's "The Weekend Homesteader: A Twelve-Month Guide to Self-Sufficiency" 2 + 1 + -
Ben Hartman's "The Lean Farm" 16 + 0 + -
Carol Deppe's "Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties " 17 + 2 + -
Carol Deppe's "The Resilient Gardener" 39 + 9 + -
Carol Deppe's "The Tao of Vegetable Gardening" 3 + 0 + -
Christopher Shein's "Vegetable Gardeners Guide to Permaculture" 0 + 1 + -
David Holmgren's "Retrosuburbia, a downshifters guide to a resilient future" 18 + 3 + -
David the Good's "Florida Survival Gardening" 5 + 1 + -
H C Flores's "Food not Lawns" 33 + 7 + -
Jackie French's "Backyard Self Sufficiency" 3 + 0 + -
Jeff Ball's "60 Minute Vegetable Garden" 2 + 1 + -
Jenni Blackmore's, "Permaculture for the Rest of Us" 8 + 1 + -
Jessi Bloom and Dave Boehnlein's "Practical Permaculture: for Home Landscapes, Your Community, and the Whole Earth" 5 + 2 + -
John Jeavons' "How to Grow More Vegetables" 8 + 0 + -
John Seymore's Biointensive "Self Sufficient Gardener" 1 + 1 + -
Jonas Gampe's "Permakultur im Hausgarten" 4 + 0 + -
Linda Woodrow's "The Permaculture Home Garden" 2 + 0 + -
Lisa Taylor & Seattle Tilth's "Your Farm in the City" 3 + 0 + -
Masanobu Fukuoka's "One Straw Revolution" 26 + 5 + -
Michael Judd's "Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist" 8 + 1 + -
Paul Wheaton & Shawn Klassen-Koop's "Building a Better World in Your Backyard" 73 + 9 + -
Perrine Hervé-Gruyer& Charles Hervé-Gruyer's "Miraculous Abundance: One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers, and Enough Food to Feed the World" 1 + 0 + -
Peter Bane's "The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country" 16 + 3 + -
Richard Perkins's "Regenerative Agriculture" 1 + 0 + -
Shawn and Beth Dougherty's "The Independent Farmstead" 1 + 0 + -
Winner Toby Hemenway's "Gaia's Garden" 93 + 31 + -
Apple Poll:You can vote with as many apples as you have.  You don't lose apples.
People's Choice:Everybody gets one vote!  People with PIE get an extra upvote and one downvote.

Last vote was cast on: Jun 14, 2025, 5:58:53 AM