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From Amazon: The bestselling resource for modern homesteading, growing and preserving foods, and raising chickens, The Encyclopedia of Country Living includes how to cultivate a garden, buy land, bake bread, raise farm animals, make sausage, can peaches, milk a goat, grow herbs, churn butter, build a chicken coop, catch a pig, cook on a wood stove, and much, much more. This comprehensive resource is the most authoritative guide available to a sustainable lifestyle and living off of the land. | From Amazon: The bestselling resource for modern homesteading, growing and preserving foods, and raising chickens, The Encyclopedia of Country Living includes how to cultivate a garden, buy land, bake bread, raise farm animals, make sausage, can peaches, milk a goat, grow herbs, churn butter, build a chicken coop, catch a pig, cook on a wood stove, and much, much more. This comprehensive resource is the most authoritative guide available to a sustainable lifestyle and living off of the land. | ||
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+ | *[http://www.wholesystemsdesign.com/resilient-farm-homestead-book/|''The Resilient Farm and Homestead''], Ben Falk | ||
+ | *[http://www.newforestfarm.net/book.html|''Restoration Agriculture''], Mark Shepard | ||
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*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5350 ''Farmers of Forty Centuries: Or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan''] by [[wikipedia:Franklin Hiram King|Franklin Hiram King]], 1911 | *[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5350 ''Farmers of Forty Centuries: Or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan''] by [[wikipedia:Franklin Hiram King|Franklin Hiram King]], 1911 | ||
* [http://soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010175.tree%20crops.pdf ''Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture''] J. Russell Smith, 1929 | * [http://soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010175.tree%20crops.pdf ''Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture''] J. Russell Smith, 1929 | ||
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==Videos== | ==Videos== | ||
+ | *[https://youtu.be/aFAEq6mCtL4 ''Allan Savory at Harvard Law School: Reversing Desertification''] | ||
+ | *[https://www.youtube.com/embed/mtQBoMoqc9U ''Occam's Grazer - An Introduction to Holistic Management''] |
Latest revision as of 10:17, 27 October 2015
Contents
Books
"Must have" physical books for any farm's library
Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery 1969 and updated several times since.
From Amazon: The bestselling resource for modern homesteading, growing and preserving foods, and raising chickens, The Encyclopedia of Country Living includes how to cultivate a garden, buy land, bake bread, raise farm animals, make sausage, can peaches, milk a goat, grow herbs, churn butter, build a chicken coop, catch a pig, cook on a wood stove, and much, much more. This comprehensive resource is the most authoritative guide available to a sustainable lifestyle and living off of the land.
Permaculture
- The Resilient Farm and Homestead, Ben Falk
- Restoration Agriculture, Mark Shepard
Digital reading/ebooks
Permanent agriculture
- Soil Fertility and Permanent Agriculture Cyril G. Hopkins, 1910
- Farmers of Forty Centuries: Or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan by Franklin Hiram King, 1911
- Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture J. Russell Smith, 1929