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Permaculture a Designer's Manual
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Gaia's Garden
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8 9       9.5       9     5     9   9.9       8.5   9
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The Permaculture Student 1
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  9       9       9   7           9       8    
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  10   9     9         9       10     10          
The Resilient Farm and Homestead
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8     8         8           10       9         8
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  10   9       8   8     9                 10    
Wild Fermentation
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  10                 10 7 8     10     9          
Mycelium Running
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        8     10   10     10     10                
Restoration Agriculture
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9               9 10   9               9        
The Humanure Handbook
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  10   9.5         10       10     10                
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  10   10               9 9                     9
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              9         10     9.5 9              
The $50 and Up Underground House Book
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  10                   8       9         9      
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Botany in a Day
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  10             8       9     8                
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  10             10                 10            
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      10     10       9                          
Desert or Paradise
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8 10               7                            
Wild Edibles
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  9           8             10                  
The Omnivore's Dilemma
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  10   9               10                        
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8               7           8                  
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      9     4                   10              
The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and Sustainability
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            10                   8         9    
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    9     10                           9        
Landrace Gardening
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    10       10     9                            
Teaming With Microbes
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        8       10                   9          
Backyard Dairy Goats
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          9 10               8                  
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    9 7           7                            
Homegrown Linen: transforming flaxseed into fibre
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          10               10       10            
The Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm and Stable
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    9       10         8.5                        
Permaculture Design: A Step-By-Step Guide
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8   9             8                            
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond
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                10 10     9                      
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8                       8 8                    
Roots Demystified
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9             9                       8        
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            10           9                      
The Earth Care Manual
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9   9                                          
The Hands-On Home
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          9.5                       10            
The Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Essential Plants for Human Survival
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The Hand-Sculpted House
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  10                             9.5              
Fermented Vegetables
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      9                       10                
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How To Bake Without Baking Powder
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Dairy Farming: The Beautiful Way
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              8       8.5                        
Cows Save The Planet
Judith D Schwartz
              7                 9              
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            10             10                    
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9                     7                        
The Woodland Way
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7.8                                       7.5      
The Edible Ecosystem Solution
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                            7         9        
Push the Zone
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      8             10                          
The Food Lover's Garden
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      7                           7            
The School Garden Curriculum
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  10       9.5                                    
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The Earth Sheltered Solar Greenhouse Book
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      9               9                        
Perennial Vegetables
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                        8     9                
Forest Gardening In Practice
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Weeds and What They Tell Us
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8             9                                
Edible Paradise
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  10                                       9    
The Carbon Farming Solution
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    10   8                                      
Lawns Into Meadows: Growing a regenerative landscape
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        7                                     7
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    9               8                          
How to Grow Perennial Vegetable
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8                                       7.5      
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  10       9                                    
The Permaculture Kitchen
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    8 7                                        
How To Make A Forest Garden
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8   9                                          
Dry It - You'll Like It!
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9     9                                        
Small-Scale Grain Raising
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      9     8                                  
The Organic Seed Grower
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8                   9                          
Shanleya's Quest: A Botany Adventure for Kids Ages 9-99
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    9 8.5                                        
Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties
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      9.5 9                                      
Beyond the War on Invasive Species
Tao Orion
    8   7                                      
Farming the Woods
Steve Gabriel and Ken Mudge
8                           8                  
Permaculture in a Nutshell
Patrick Whitefield
9                 8                            
The Ethical Meat Handbook
Meredith Leigh
                          9.5               9    
The Natural Way of Farming
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              10   7                            
5 Acres & A Dream The Sequel
Leigh Tate
                          10                   9
No Dig Organic Home & Garden
Charles Dowding & Stephanie Hafferty
9   9                                          
Bioshelter Market Garden
Darell Frey
        7               9                      
Herbal Medicine: 190 Herbs to Know and Use
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          10 10                                  
Straw Bale Building Details
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  10           10                                
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                                10   7          
Biodome Chronicles: Legacy,
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  10       10                                    
The Permaculture Handbook, GARDEN FARMING for Town and Country
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                8 9                            
Creating a Forest Garden
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9   9                                          
The Art of Plant-Based Cheesemaking - how to craft real, cultured, non-dairy cheese
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    8 8                                        
Clean With Cleaners You Can Eat
Raven Ranson
          9 9                                  
Paradise Lot
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              8             9                  
The Medicinal Forest Garden Handbook
Anne Stobart
    9                     10                    
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
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          8                                    
The Weekend Homesteader: A Twelve-Month Guide to Self-Sufficiency
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            10                                  
Agroecology: The Ecology of Sustainable Food Systems
Stephen R. Gleissman
        8.5                                      
The Prairie Homestead Cookbook
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      10                                        
Compost Teas
Eric Fisher
  10                                            
Brilliant Green: History and Science of Plant Intelligence
Stefano Mancuso and Alessandra Viola
  10                                            
Lost Crops of Africa, Volume 2: Vegetables
the National Research Council
        8                                      
Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning
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            10                                  
A Weaver's Garden
Rita Buchanan
                                    8          
The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved
Sandor Ellix Katz
  10                                            
Permaculture and Climate Change Adaptation
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    8                                          
Do It Yourself 12 Volt Solar Power (2nd Edition)
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        8                                      
Elegant Simplicity
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  10                                            
The Third Plate
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      7                                        
The Biotime Log
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                                  9            
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      8                                        
Teaming With Nutrients
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        7.5                                      
The Alternative Kitchen Garden an A-Z
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                  8                            
How to Read the Landscape
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9                                              
The Elderberry Book: Forage, Cultivate, Prepare, Preserve
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                          10                    
Building Your Permaculture Property
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            10                                  
Grow a Salad in Your City Apartment E-book
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          9.25                                    
Managing Cover Crops Profitably
SARE Outreach
            10                                  
How to Permaculture Your Life
Ross Mars
8.5                                              
Lost Crops of Africa, Volume 3: Fruits
the National Research Council
        8                                      
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          10                                    
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                      8                        
Trees for Gardens, Orchards & Permaculture
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  10                                            
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                            9                  
Your Edible Yard
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                          9                    
Growing Green: Animal-Free Organic Techniques
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9.8                                              
Field and Laboratory Investigations in Agroecology
Stephen R Gliessman
        8                                      
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                                10              
Possum Living
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      8                                        
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        8                                      
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        8.5                                      
Energy Revolution
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    9                                          
Getting Started in Permaculture
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                  8                            
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
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  10                                            
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            10                                  
Market Farming Success
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8                                              
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    8                                          
The Green Burial Guidebook
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  10                                            
The Forager's Harvest
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8                                              
Green Wizardry
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    9                                          
Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture
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                6                              
A Year in an Off-Grid Kitchen
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            10                                  
Pests of the West
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              6                                
Food from your Forest Garden
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8                                              
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                            9                  
Traditional Meals for the Frugal Family
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                          10                    
The Scything Handbook
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                    9                          
Garden Myths: The Good, The Bad and The Unbelievable
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          8.5                                    
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              9                                
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        8.5                                      
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    9                                          
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  10                                            
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            10                                  
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    8                                          
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                    9                          
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        5                                      
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  10                                            
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                          10                    
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                9                              
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Michael Judd
                                            9  
Seed Libraries: And Other Means of Keeping Seeds in the Hands of the People
Cindy Conner
                    8                          
Holy Shit - Managing Manure to save Mankind
Gene Logsdon
                                            10  
Mycelial Mayhem - Growing Mushooms for Fun, Profit and Companion Planting
David and Kristin Sewak
    8                                          
Prepper's Natural Medicine ... for when there is no doctor
Cat Ellis
                                10              
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Marie Kondo
                    9                          
Earth Ponds
Tim Matson
8                                              
Fields of Farmers
Joel Salatin
              9                                
Lost Crops of Africa, Volume 1: Grains,
the National Research Council
        8                                      
Mudgirls Manifesto: Handbuilt Homes, Handcrafted Lives
The Mudgirls
          9                                    
The Rebel Farmer
Sepp Holzer
                            8                  
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
                                            10  
Growing Beans
Susan Young
            10                                  
Can You Hear the Trees Talking?
Peter Wohlleben
                                            10  
Woodland Craft
Ben Law
9                                              
Herbal ABC's: The Foundation of Herbal Medicine
Dr. Sharol Tilgner
          9                                    
The Permaculture City
Toby Hemenway
  10                                            
The Vegan Book of Permaculture
Graham Burnett
    8                                          
A Handbook of Native American Herbs
Alma R. Hutchens
              9                                
Understanding Roots
Robert Kourik
            10                                  
The Woodland Year
Ben Law
    9                                          
The Chinese Greenhouse
Dan Chiras
                                            8  
Grow or Die: The Good Guide to Survival Gardening
David the Good
                    8                          
Storyworthy
Matthew Dicks
  10                                            
Your Farm in the City: An Urban Dweller's Guide to Growing Food and Raising Animals
          8.5                                    
Companion Plants and How to Use Them
Helen Philbrick and Richard B. Gregg
9                                              
The Beekeeper's Bible
Richard A. Jones and Sharon Sweeny-Lynch
                              9                
Nature's Garden
Samuel Thayer
9                                              
Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation
Tradd Cotter
                9                              
Practical Pole Building Construction
Leigh Seddon
                7                              
Lost Crops of the Incas
the National Research Council
        8.5                                      
Eating on the Wild Side
Jo Robinson
                                      9        
Edible Perennial Gardening
Anni Kelsey
8                                              
Saving Seeds As If Our Lives Depended on It
Dan Jason
                    9                          
Indigenous African soil enrichment as a climate-smart sustainable ...
Solomon Dawit et al
        8                                      
Why People Need Plants
Carlton Wood and Nicolette Habgood
    8                                          
Building a Low Impact Roundhouse (4th ed)
Tony Wrench
        7                                      
Miraculous Abundance
Perrine Hervé-Gruyer and Charles Hervé-Gruyer
                            9                  
Small is Successful: Creating sustainable livelihoods on ten acres or less
Larch Maxey
        8                                      
The Re:Fashion Wardrobe
Portia Lawrie
            10                                  
The Omnivore’s Guide to Home Cooking
Judson Carroll
            10                                  
Making Small Farms Work
Richard Perkins
9                                              
Secret Garden of Survival: How to Grow a Camouflaged Food Forest
Rick Austin
          7                                    
The Adventures of Pip
Enid Blyton
    9                                          
Studying Invertebrates
C. Philip Wheater & Penny A. Cook
        9                                      
The Manual of Seed Saving
Andrea Heistinger
                    7                          
Are We Done Fighting?
Matthew Legge
  10                                            
7 Ways to Think Differently
Looby Macnamara
    9                                          
In the Charcuterie
Taylor Boetticher & Toponia Miller
                    9                          
Mortgage Free! Innovative Strategies for Debt-Free Home Ownership
Rob Roy
                                        9      
Invasive Plant Medicine
Timothy Lee Scott
                                    9          
The Tourist Trail (Across Oceans 1)
John Yunker
  9                                            
Herbal Medicine From the Heart of the Earth
Dr. Sharol Tilgner
          10                                    
Permaculture for agroecology: design, movement, practice, and worldview
Rafter Sass Ferguson
        8.5                                      
The Road Back to Nature
Masanobu Fukuoka
  10                                            
Growing Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms
Paul Stamets
                                               
The Wildcrafting Brewer
Pascal Baudar
                                               
Serious Microhydro
Scott L. Davis
                                               
SKIP: A Book Connecting Industrious People with Land Owners
Paul Wheaton and Mike Haasl
                                               
The Woodland House
Ben Law
                                               
The Crosscut Saw Manual
Warren Miller
                                               
The Vegan Cook & Gardener
Piers Warren and Ella Bee Glendining
                                               
The Permaculture Garden
Graham Bell
                                               
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
David MacKay
                                               
EDIBLE WILD PLANTS, Eastern/Central North America
                                               
Nature-Based Therapy
Nevin J. Harper, Kathryn Rose & David Segal
                                               
The Artisan Herbalist
Bevin Cohen
                                               
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fermented Foods
Wardeh Harmon
                                               
Towards Zero Waste: how to live a circular life
Feidhlim Harty
                                               
The Community-Scale Permaculture Farm
Josh Trought
                                               
Builder's Greywater Guide
Art Ludwig
                                               
The Great Healthy Yard Project
Diane Lewis
                                               
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region
Nat. Aud. Soc.
                                               
The Home-Scale Forest Garden
Dani Baker
                                               
The Permaculture Book of DIY
John Adams and friends
                                               
Plants For a Future: Edible & Useful Plants for a Healthier World
Ken Fern
                                               
The Woodwright's Shop: A Practical Guide to Traditional Woodcraft
Roy Underhill
                                               
Milkwood: Real skills for down-to-earth living
Kirsten Bradley and Nick Ritar
                                               
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Michael Pollan
                                               
Fertile Edges: Regenerating Land, Culture and Hope
Maddy Harland
                                               
Growing Perennial Foods
Acadia Tucker
                                               
The Ultimate Guide to Soil
Anna Hess
                                               
You Alone in the Maine Woods
Gareth Anderson
                                               
Practically Wild
Kevin Feinstein
                                               
Earth User's Guide to Teaching Permaculture
Rosemary Morrow
                                               
Low-Tech Magazine
Kris De Decker
                                               
The Unsettling of America
Wendell Berry
                                               
Shrubs for Gardens, Agroforestry and Permaculture
Martin Crawford
                                               
Passive Annual Heat Storage
John Hait
                                               
Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies
Akiva Silver
                                               
Edible Wild Plants: A North American Field Guide to over 200 Natural Foods
T Elias
                                               
Designing Ecological Habitats: Creating a Sense of Place
E. Christopher Mare and Max O. Lindegger
                                               
A Tiny Home to Call Your Own
Patricia Foreman
                                               
Soil Science for Gardeners
Robert Pavilis
                                               
The Woodland Homestead:
Brett McLeod
                                               
Raising Dough: The Complete Guide to Financing a Socially Responsible Food Business
Elizabeth U
                                               
Make A Joint Stool From A Tree
Jennie Alexander and Peter Follansbee
                                               
Resilient Agriculture
Laura Lengnick
                                               
Growing Food in a Hotter Drier Land : Lessons From Desert Farmers On Adapting to Climate Uncertainty
                                               
Around the World in 80 Plants
Stephen Barstow
                                               
The Runaway Dandelion; Adventures In SustainAbility
Jill Regensburg
                                               
Solar Water Heating
Bob Ramlow and Benjamin Nusz
                                               
Pure Poultry
Victoria Redhed Miller
                                               
The Thinking Beekeeper: A Guide to Natural Beekeeping in Top Bar Hives
Christy Hemenway
                                               
The Compost Coach
Kate Flood
                                               
Everyone Wins! 3rd Edition
Josette Luvmour & Ba Luvmour
                                               
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows
                                               
Homemade for Sale - Updated and Expanded Edition
                                               
The Practical Cyclist
Chip Haynes
                                               
The New Holistic Herbal
                                               
DIY Sourdough
John Moody and Jessica Moody
                                               
The Independent Farmstead:
Shawn and Beth Dougherty
                                               
Craft Distilling: Making Liquor Legally at Home
Victoria Redhed Miller
                                               
Grasses: An Identification Guide
Lauren Brown
                                               
The Pet Poo Pocket Guide
Rose Seemann
                                               
How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
                                               
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Eastern Region
Nat. Aud. Soc.
                                               
The Forager's Garden
Anna Locke
                                               
Backyard Biodiesel
Bob Armantrout and Lyle Estill
                                               
Getting Started in Your Own Wood
Julian Evans and Will Rolls
                                               
Swedish Carving Techniques
Wille Sundqvist
                                               
USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning 2015 Revision
The USDA
                                               
Farm the City
Michael Ableman
                                               
Traditional Country Craftsmen
J. Geraint Jenkins
                                               
The Permaculture Book of Ferment and Human Nutrition
Bill Mollison
                                               
Building Community: 12 Principles for a Healthy Future
James Gruber
                                               
Paige Emery's Our Native Bees: North America's Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them
                                               
Sowing Seeds in the Desert
Masanobu Fukuoka
                                               
A Food Forest in your Garden Plan it - Grow it- Cook it
Alan Carter
                                               
The Water-Wise Home
Laura Allen
                                               
Herbal Antivirals: Natural Remedies for Emerging & Resistant Viral Infections
Stephen H. Buhner
                                               
Toolbox for Sustainable City Living
Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew
                                               
Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture
J. Russell Smith
                                               
Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening
Will Bonsall
                                               
Food Freedom
Rob Greenfield
                                               
The Whole Okra: A Seed to Stem Celebration
Chris Smith
                                               
No Dig Year Round Harvests
Stephanie Hafferty
                                               
Outdoor Classrooms: A Handbook for School Gardens
Carolyn Nuttall and Janet Millington
                                               
Eat Your Greens
David Kennedy
                                               
Septic Tank Options and Alternatives
Feidhlim Harty
                                               
Making Better Buildings
Chris Magwood
                                               
The Food Forest Handbook
Darrell Frey and Michelle Czolba
                                               
Your Erroneous Zones
Dr Wayne W. Dyer
                                               
How to grow more vegetables
John Jeavons
                                               
The Permaculture Market Garden
Zach Loeks
                                               
The Natural Plaster Book
Dan Chiras
                                               
Vital Skincare: Natural Healthy Skin in just 5 minutes a day
Laura Pardoe
                                               
Clean & Green - 101 Hints and Tips for a More Eco-friendly Home
Nancy Birtwhistle
                                               
The Wilderness Garden
Jackie French
                                               
Peterson Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs
Steven Foster and James A. Duke
                                               
Homestead Cows
Callene Rapp and Eric Rapp
                                               
5 Acres & A Dream The Book,
Leigh Tate
                                               
The Rocket Powered Oven: how to build your own super-efficient cooker
                                               
Farmer Phil's Permaculture (Picture book)
                                               
Ecological Aquaculture: A Sustainable Solution
Laurence Hutchinson
                                               
Repair Revolution
Elizabeth Knight and John Wackman
                                               
Winter Harvest Cookbook
Lane Morgan
                                               
More Powerful Together
Jen Gobby
                                               
Your Indoor Herb Garden
DJ Herda
                                               
Secret Greenhouse of Survival
Rick Austin
                                               
Cordwood Building: The State of the Art
Rob Roy
                                               
Solar Gas: How to Make Your Own Auto and Heating Fuel for Pennies a Gallon ~
David Hoye
                                               
Beyond You and Me: Inspirations & Wisdom for Building Community
Kosha Anja Joubert & Robin Alfred
                                               
The Pressed Plant
Andrea DiNoto and David Winter
                                               
Human Permaculture
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Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision Making
Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield
                                               
The Art of Plant-Based Cheese Making Second Edition
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The Medicinal Herb Grower
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The Pleasure of Herbs
Phyllis Shaudys
                                               
Permaculture Guide to Reed Beds
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The Minimalist Gardener
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This table is an enormously beneficial resource, thanks to all involved. So many new additions to my library.

Is it ok if I suggest books that I've found eminently useful?
Geoff Lawton recommended on Youtube: 'Gertrud Franck (Companion Planting: Successful Gardening the Organic Way)'
It's a little dry with a lot of reflections on space-utilization, but the home-garden scale and no-nonsense descriptions suit my purposes quite well.

I can also recommend Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren.
It's not a practical guide, but uses theory and symbols to expand your conceptual vocabulary around permaculture.

Finally, Biochar for Environmental Management by Johannes Lehmann & Steven Joseph
This is an incredibly dense, dry technical review of biochar studies up to 2015.
It ranges from biochar microscopy to global impacts of future biochar markets to case studies.
It's not a practical guide, it's quite inaccessible, but it's excellent food for thought for an environmentally-minded policy wonk (like me).
Foreword and Chapter 1 are free on it's website.
 
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Could we have a column for average rating... so those of us who are overwhelmed with book recommendations/slow readers could use it a a data point to select our next book.

Also this awesome!
 
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Ashley Cottonwood wrote:Could we have a column for average rating... so those of us who are overwhelmed with book recommendations/slow readers could use it a a data point to select our next book.

Also this awesome!



I, too, would love an average column, and we've actually been working toward that for quite some time. It just requires programming, which sadly most of us moderators have no idea how to do, and so it's on the long list of things-to-do for our few, very beloved, programmers.
 
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Nice list, but the books seem to be listed in no particular order.  Makes it harder to search for a particular book that you want to know about.  Am I missing something?
 
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Interesting question TJ. I have wondered the same thing before so today I played around with it & discovered something useful. Copy & paste the grid into spreadsheet program like Excel or Open Office. Then it can easily be alphabetically sorted.
 
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The order, top to bottom, is the number of reviews shown.  

The order, left to right, is the number of reviews shown.

So the top book is the book with the most reviews that appear.  

There could be a book lower that has more reviews, but most of the reviews are by people that have reviewed just one book.   I think for a review to show up, the reviewer has to have reviewed four or five books.  
 
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To find a book, I do ctrl-f

 
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If I want to write a book review, for a book not on the lis, how do I go about doing that? Is that something a non-staff member can do?
 
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Ashley Cottonwood wrote:If I want to write a book review, for a book not on the lis, how do I go about doing that? Is that something a non-staff member can do?



Yes.  Mostly.

Is there a thread for the book following the format of the other books?  Do you already have a review of the book as a post in the thread for the book following the format of the other reviews?  If you have those things, then simply post a link to the book thread and we will manually include it.  

Note that your reviews won't show up until you have more reviews than the last person on the list.

 
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How to books get added to this list? Is it possible? I have a number of homesteading/solar books I have written.
 
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Great list. Read several and working through some more. I'm looking for a book(s) specifically about raising animals/livestock from a permaculture perspective. There's lots of high-level info included in some permaculture books I've read (e.g., chickens eat scraps and help spread manure, etc.), but I haven't found a book that talks about the nuts and bolts of HOW to care for the animals in a permaculture manner (e.g., providing shelter, forage, over-wintering, breeding, diseases/remedies, etc.). Any recommendations?
 
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T.J. Stewart wrote:Nice list, but the books seem to be listed in no particular order.  Makes it harder to search for a particular book that you want to know about.  Am I missing something?



What I'd wish for is an additional column in which the topic is given. The topics could map directly to Permies subforums--so if the book were a forum post, what forum would it go in. That way I could zero in on just the books related to my preferred topic.

Besides that I found this grid extremely useful!
 
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