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[jamesdavid Sneed <harvestcircle@hotmail.com>]

I'd like to add that anything written by british author John Seymour is a 
worthwhile read, very down to earth.

> Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 22:33:55 -0400
> From: venaurafarm@bellsouth.net
> To: SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU; permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org; 
> marketfarming@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [permaculture] Recommended reading on organic agriculture and 
> farming in general || Re: [SANET-MG] Report Looks at Past and Future of 
> Organic Farming
> 
> 
> Recommended reading on organic agriculture and farming in general.
> 
> Barry Lia wrote:
> Lord Northbourne
> Look to the Land
> Northbourne seems to have first coined the term "organic farming" in 1940.
> 
> Sir Albert Howard
> An Agricultural Testament
> Farming and Gardening For Health or Disease
> The Soil and Health
> 
> BIODYNAMICS
> Rudolph Steiner
> Ehrenfried Pfeifer
> Wolf Storl
> Herbert Koepf
> 
> Masanobu Fukuoka
> One Straw Revolution
> zero till farming, let the weeds grow and plant within them, SEEDBALLS
> 
> F.H. King
> Farmers of 40 Centuries
> The Soil
> 
> Lady Eve Balfour
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Eve_Balfour
> Images: 
> http://www.google.com/images?q=Lady+Eve+Balfour&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rlz=1R1GGLL_en___US365&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=H975S_DTN4GC8gbd_pHTCg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDcQsAQwAw
> Lady Evelyn Barbara "Eve" Balfour (1899-1990) was an English farmer, 
> educator, organic farming pioneer, and a founding figure in the organic 
> movement. She was one of the first women to study agriculture at an 
> English university, graduating from the University of Reading.
> The daughter of the second Earl of Balfour, she began farming in 1920, 
> in Haughley Green, Suffolk, England. In 1939, with her friend and 
> neighbor Ryan Nelson, she launched the Haughley Experiment, the first 
> long-term, side-by-side scientific comparison of organic and 
> chemical-based farming.
> In 1943, she published the organics classic, "The Living Soil", a book 
> combining her research with the initial findings at Haughley.
> In 1946, she co-founded and became the first president of the Soil 
> Association, an international organization claiming to promote 
> sustainable agriculture (and the main organic farming association in the 
> UK today). She continued to farm, write and lecture for the rest of her 
> life.
> 
> Louis Bromfield
> Malabar Farm
> 
> J.I. Rodale
> The Healthy Hunzas
> Pay Dirt
> The Organic Front
> 
> W.R. Thompson (The Pasture Man)
> The Pasture Book
> pps. 8-9:
> Calendar of pasture activities (fascinating and diverse activities - LL)
> April
> 7. Move livestock from kudzu-crimson or kudzu-winter pea area.
> 8. Set kudzu crowns
> September
> 13. Harvest Dallis grass seed.
> 
> P. Aquatias
> Formerly French Gardener to A.J. Molyneux, Esq.
> Intensive Culture of Vegetables on the French System
> London, 1913
> (The Bible, along with the works of Chadwick, Jeavons, Coleman and 
> others - LL)
> 
> MM. Vilmorin-Andrieux
> of Paris
> The Vegetable Garden
> Illustrations, Descriptions and Culture
> of
> The Garden Vegetables
> Of Cold and Temperate Climates
> London, 1885
> 
> Edward Faulkner
> Plowman's Folly
> 
> Liberty Hyde Bailey
> 
> Andrew Jackson Downing
> 
> Books by:
> Richard Langer
> Gene Logsdon
> 
> Cyril Hopkins
> Soil Fertility and Permanent Agriculture
> Country Life Education Series
> Chapter: Theories Concerning Soil Fertility
> P. 341Fertility of Soil
> Artificial Fertilizers Said To Be All Wrong
> Special Correspondence.
> Washington, Nov. 17
> "Artificial fertilizers - phosphates and nitrates, chiefly -
> act upon the soil as drugs act upon the human body, according to
> investigations just completed by the Bureau of Soils of the Department 
> of Agriculture.
> Although there are some experiments and some tabulation of results yet 
> to be made, the scientists have gone far enough to evolve a theory that 
> may upset present-day methods of agriculture.
> The new theory is based on a series of experiments that have been 
> conducted during the summer and for several years prior to this season.
> They intend to show that there are natural agencies at work in the soil 
> that will replenish worn-out 'soil tissues' just as the worn out tissues 
> of the body in man are replaces by agencies inside.
> Only in the case of man there is usually a limit to this process, 
> whereas, in soils, the scientists have observed some wonderful results 
> from soils long ago abandoned as useless.
> Sensible rotation of crops will produce much better and more lasting 
> results than the artificial fertilization of soils, say the experts."
> -- Freport (Illinois) Daily Bulletin, November 19, 1909
> 
> [He seems to be advocating polyculture, culture of annual, perennial, 
> orchard and forest crops and crop rotation within farming systems 
> utilizing permaculture methods - LL]
> 
> Founders of the Permaculture movement:
> Bill Mollison:
> Permaculure Designer's Manual
> The Permaculture Book of Ferment and Human Nutrition
> David Holmgren
> 
> Eliot Coleman
> Books on home, market and all seasons gardening (all classics)
> 
> John Jeavons
> How To Grow More Vegetables (a classic)
> 
> Firman Bear
> Earth: The Stuff Of Life
> 
> Charles Piper
> Forage Plants and Their Culture
> The Rural Text-Book Series Edited by L.H. Bailey
> See a few scanned pages from this book,
> http://picasaweb.google.com/venaura/BOOKS#
> notably pictures of pigs on kudzu in a pasture: 
> http://picasaweb.google.com/venaura/BOOKS#5469848478333184642
> http://picasaweb.google.com/venaura/BOOKS#
> 
> Newman Turner
> Fertility Pastures
> 
> Peter Tompkins & Christopher Bird
> The Secret Life of Plants
> Secrets of the Soil
> 
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