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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] suggested reading!?
  • Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:04:52 -0500

Chicken Tractor : The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil
Andy Lee, Pat Foreman / Paperback / Published 1998
Earth User's Guide to Permaculture
Rosemary Morrow, Rob Allsop (Illustrator) / Paperback / Published 1994
Earthuser's Guide to Permaculture : Teacher's Notes
Rosemary Morrow / Paperback / Published 1997
Forest Gardening : Cultivating an Edible Landscape
Robert A. De J. Hart / Paperback / Published 1996
Introduction to Permaculture
Bill Mollison, Slay Reney-Mia / Paperback / Published 1991
Introduction to Permaculture
Bill Mollison, Reny Mia Slay / Paperback / Published 1997
Permaculture : A Designers Manual
Bill Mollison / Hardcover / Published 1997
The Permaculture Book of Ferment & Human Nutrition
Bill Mollison / Paperback / Published 1997
Permaculture in a Nutshell
Patrick Whitefield / Paperback / Published 1993

Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison and Reny Mia
Slay. 1991. Tagari Publishers, Tyalgum, Australia. 198 p.

Permaculture One: A Perennial Agriculture for Human
Settlements, 3rd ed (Reprint of 1978 ed) by Bill Mollison and David
Holmgren. 1987.
Tagari Publishers, Tyalgum, New South Wales, Australia.
127 p.

Permaculture Two: A Practical Design for Town and Country
in Permanent Agriculture by Bill Mollison. 1979. Tagari Press, Stanley,
Australia.
150 p.

Permaculture: A Designer's Manual by Bill Mollison. 1988.
Tagari Publications, Tyalgum, Australia. 576 p.

The Best of Permaculture by Max O. Lindegger and Robert
Tap. 1986. Nascimanere Publishers, Nambour, Australia. 136 p.

The Permaculture Way: Practical Ways to Create a
Self-Sustaining World by Graham Bell. 1992. Thorsons, London. 239 p.

The Permaculture Garden by Graham Bell. 1994. Thorsons,
London. 170 p.

Urban Permaculture by David Watkins. 1993. Permanent
Publications, U.K. 152 p.

Permaculture in a Nutshell by Patrick Whitefield. 1993.
Permanent Publications, U.K. 75 p.

Earth User's Guide to Permaculture by Rosemary Morrow and
Rob Allsop. 1994. Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst, NSW Australia. 152 p.

Getting Started in Permaculture by Ross and Jennifer Mars.
1995. Candlelight Trust, Hovea, Western Australia. 60 p.


Organic Gardening by Peter Bennett, ISBN 1 86436 043 7

Eco Gardening, The six priorities, Corolie Whitby,
ISBN 0 7270 1350 5

The Green Technology House and Garden Book, ATA publications
ISBN 0 646 15196 7

Farming in ponds and Dams, An introduction to freshwater aquaculture in
Australia, Nick Romanowski, ISBN 0 85091 630 5.

Getting food from water, a guide to backyard aquaculture, Gene Logsdon, ISBN
0 87857 232 5.

Magazines which have been usefull to me include :

Grass Roots ...................... craft and self suffiency.
Renew, ............................ (was called Soft Technology)
Earth Garden ...................Gardening and self suffiency
Permaculture international .... all things permie ... all over the world


Mollison, Bill, Global Gardener (Bullfrog Films, 1991).
Mollison, Bill and Reny Mia Slay, Introduction to Permaculture, 5th. ed.

Adelson, Glenn and D. Perlman, Biodiversity (Malden, Massachusetts:
Blackwell Science, 1997)

Pilarski, Michael (ed.) 1994. Restoration Forestry.
Kivaki Press, Durango, CO.

Small is Beautiful, by E.F.Schumacher. Why we can't wait for the
politicians and economists to put the world to rights, and how we can maybe
start to organise a 'parallel economy'.

Woodland Crafts in Britain, by H.L.Edlin. Everything society needs in a
pre- or post-plastic world. My Desert Island Book.

Design/Inspiration Books

"Permaculture: A Designer's Manual" by Bill Mollison
Tagari Publications (c)1988, reprinted 1998

'Permaculture One' Mollison & Holmgren 0 552 98060 9 Corgi Book 1978
'Permaculture Two' - no details as it's on loan
'The Manual of Practical Homesteading' John Vivian, Rodale Press 1975,
Emmaus Pa., 0 87857 092 6
'Complete Organic Growing' Johnathan Sturm, Southern Holdings 1992,
Lucaston Tasmania, ISBN 094089184
'Surviving in the Eighties' Michael Boddy & Richard Beckett, George
Allen & Unwin Australia 1980, ISBN 0 06861 106 9
'The Wilderness Garden' Jackie French, Aird Books, Melbourne 1992 0
947214 25 9
'Esther Deans' Gardening Book', Esther Deans, Harper & Row, 1977, ISBN
06 312 0011
'Permaculture A Practical Guide for a Sustainable Future', Bill
Mollison, Island Press 1990, ISBN 1 55963 048 5
'The Best of Permaculture A collection' Lindegger/Tap, Nascimanere,
Nambour, Qld, ISBN 0 0589585 0 5
'Earth User's Guide to Permaculture' Rosemary Morrow, Kangaroo Press,
Kenthurst, NSW, ISBN 0 86417 514 0

Non-chemical/General useful stuff
'The essential It's so Natural' Alan Hayes, Harper Collins, ISBN 0
7322 5921 5
Eliot Coleman - 2 books
'The New Organic Grower', Chelsea Green, Chelsea, Vermont, ISBN 0
930031 22 9
'Four-Season Harvest',Chelsea Green, Chelsea, Vermont, ISBN 0 930031
57 1
Jackie French - 3 books
'A-Z of Useful Plants'Aird Books, Melbourne 1990, ISBN 0 947214 07 0
'Natural Control of Garden Pests', Aird Books, Melbourne 1990, ISBN 0
947214 13 5
''Soil Food, 1372 ways to add fertility to your soil', Aird Books,
Melbourne, 1995, ISBN 0 947214 44 5
'Farming for Self-sufficiency' John & Sally Seymour, Schoken Books,
New York 1973, printed prior to intro of ISBN.
'The Rodale Herb Book' Rodale Press, Emmaus, Pa, 1976, ISBN 0 87857
076 4

The Wholeness of Nature : Goethe's Way Toward a Science of Conscious
Participation in Nature (Renewal in Science)
Henri Bortoft / Paperback / Published 1996

Goethe's Way of Science : A Phenomenology of Nature (Suny Series in
Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology)
David Seamon (Editor), Arthur Zajonc (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1998

Goethe's Way of Science : A Phenomenology of Nature (Suny Series in the
Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology)
David Seamon (Editor), Arthur Zajonc (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1998

The Other Mind of Europe : Goethe As a Scientist
J.P.S. Uberoi / Hardcover / Published 1986

The Treatment of nature in German literature from GËunther to the
appearance of Goethe's Werther
Max Batt

Holistic Resource Management Vol 1
Allan Savory / Hardcover / Published 1989
Holistic Resource Management : A Model for a Healthy Planet Vol 1
Allan Savory / Paperback / Published 1989



Brother Crow, Sister Corn : Traditional American Indian Gardening
Carol Buchanan / Paperback / Published 1997
Enduring Seeds : Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation
Gary Paul Nabhan / Paperback / Published 1991
Four Seasons of Corn : A Winnebago Tradition
Sally M. Hunter, Joe Allen (Illustrator) / Paperback / Published 1996
Modeling Prehistoric Agricultural Productivity in Southwestern Colorado : A Gis Approach
Carla Van R. West, et al / Paperback / Published 1997
Native American Gardening : Stories, Projects and Recipes for Families
Michael J. Caduto, Joseph Bruchac / Paperback / Published 1996
Agricultural Origins and Development in the Midcontinent (Report / Office of the State Archaeologist, Vol 19)
William Green (Editor), et al / Paperback / Published 1994
Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden : Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians (Borealis)
Gilbert L. Wilson / Paperback / Published 1987
Early Formative Adaptations in the Southern Southwest (Monographs in World Archaeology, No 25)
Barbara J. Roth (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1996
Foraging and Farming in the Eastern Woodlands (The Ripley P. Bullen)
C. Margaret Scarry (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1993
Household Ecology : Economic Change and Domestic Life Among the Kekchi Maya in Belize
Richard R. Wilk / Paperback / Published 1997
Hunting by Prehistoric Horticulturalists in the American Southwest (The Evolution of the North American Indians)
Christine R. Szuter / Hardcover / Published 1991
In the Society of Nature : A Native Ecology in Amazonia (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, No 93)
Philippe Descola / Hardcover / Published 1994
In the Three Sisters Garden : Native American Traditions, Myths, and Culture Around the Theme of the Garden (Common Roots
Guidebook)
Joanne Dennee, et al / Paperback / Published 1995
Irrigation & the Cuicatec Ecosystem : A Study of Agriculture & Civilization in North Central Oaxaca (Memoirs of the Museum of
Anthropology, Univ of M)
Joseph W. Hopkins / Paperback / Published 1984
The Marana Community in the Hohokam World (Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona, No 56)
Suzanne K. Fish, et al / Paperback / Published 1992
Maya Subsistence : Studies in Memory of Dennis E. Puleston
Kent Flannery / Hardcover / Published 1982
Neither Wolf Nor Dog : American Indians, Environment, and Agrarian Change
David Rich Lewis / Hardcover / Published 1994
Peasants on the Edge : Crop, Cult, and Crisis in the Andes
William P. Mitchell / Hardcover / Published 1991
Prehistory of the Ayacucho Basin, Peru Vol 3
Richard S. MacNeish / Hardcover / Published 1980
Prophets of Agroforestry : Guarani Communities and Commercial Gathering
Richard K. Reed / Hardcover / Published 1995
Rivers of Change : Essays on Early Agriculture in Eastern North America
Bruce D. Smith, et al / Hardcover / Published 1992
Tiwanaku and Its Hinterland : Archaeology and Paleoecology of an Andean Civilization : Agroecology (Smithsonian Series in
Archaeological Inquiry) Vol 1
Alan L. Kolata (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1996
The Warm Valley People : Duality and Land Reform Among the Quechua Indians of Highland Peru
Harald O. Skar / Hardcover / Published 1983
American Indian Agricultural Act : hearing before the Subcommittee on Native American Affairs of the Committee on Natural
Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, on H.R. 1425, to improve the management,
productivity, and use of Indian agricultural lands and resources, hearing held in Washington, DC, June 18, 1993

Parmana : Prehistoric Maize and Manioc Subsistence Along the Amazon and Orinoco (Studies in Archaeology)
Anna Curtenius Roosevelt / Published 1980

A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants : Eastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guide Series, 40)
Steven Foster, James A. Duke / Hardcover / Published 1990

The Green Pharmacy : New Discoveries in Herbal Remedies for Common Diseases and Conditions from the World's Foremost
Authority on Healing Herbs
James A. Duke / Hardcover / Published 1997

Sensitive Chaos : The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air
Theodor Schwenk / Paperback / Published 1996









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