a guide to home-scale permaculture
by Toby Hemenway
The best-known home-scale permaculture guide: design gardens that feed you and need less work over time.
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Mel Bartholomew, Square Foot Gardening Foundation
A simple, grid-based way to grow a lot of food in a small raised bed. Easy for first-time gardeners.
Carleen Madigan
What you can produce on a quarter acre: vegetables, fruit, chickens, and more. A friendly overview.
Carla Emery
Carla Emery's massive reference on growing, raising, preserving, and cooking food. If you only keep one homesteading book, many people pick this one.
Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch
Eliot Coleman shows how to harvest vegetables all winter with cold frames and unheated tunnels.