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)