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Recommended Reading List For Permaculture Designers
We're pleased to offer our recommended reading list to you.
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The Designer's Manual by our long time mentor Bill Mollision, is THE permaculture book of books to have... once reviewed by Whole Earth, saying "If information had density... this book would be a black hole!..." Hard to get, but worth the price at any cost. We've linked this image to amazon, but their availability for this book changes frequently
Be sure to also check out Seeds of Change for ordering as well.
We have a soft spot in our heart for Mollison's soft cover Introduction to Permaculture.
Gaia's Garden is written by our good friend Toby Hemenway, one of EarthFlow's senior instructors and designers. If you read this book, you'll know why.
We always knew mushrooms were good for more than eating... and now our longtime friend Paul Stamets shares some of his revolutionary discoveries about the power of fungi to detoxify and decontaminate polluted environments. Read this and be amazed!
Our dear friend and mentor, Ianto Evans, who decades ago re-introduced the ancient art of building with the earth to the U.S. (and around the world) has written with his team an in-depth exploration of the hand-sculpted house.
Before there was an internet and websites, there was A Pattern Language. Part of an architectural series, this book skillfully links and cross references its contents -making this among the most important books about people and place ever written.
Mollison's genius continues to shine through in his Permaculture Book of Ferment and Human Nutrition. It's a culinary treasure box for fermented recipes and practices from cultures around the world.
Edible Forest Gardens by friend and colleague, David Jacke , is a journey through the art and the science of the carefully crafted garden systems of the Old World. Increase the potentials of any temperate garden by learning the theory and ecological practices integrated in his 2-volume set.
Sunset always puts out great reference books, and the Western Garden Book is one of them. Indispensable to the amateur and professional alike.
