Rainwater Harvesting, Vol 1 by Brad Lancaster
Eight Principles of Rainwater Harvesting Begin with long and thoughtful observation: Notice what’s working and what’s not.Start at the top of your watershed and work your way down: Collect water…
Permaculture by Sepp Holzer
The Big Idea: Learn how nature works. Then work with nature, instead of against it, to practice sustainable agriculture. Ch 1: Landscape Design Permaculture landscape design is about restoring a…
How to Grow More Vegetables by John Jeavons
The Big Idea: Grow Biointensive (a variant of organic farming) produces more food per square foot while also building soil, using less water, using less fertilizer, and requiring less fossil…
Permaculture for the Rest of Us by Jenni Blackmore
The Big Idea: With creativity and persistence, you can live well on a small homestead, even if the climate is difficult and the soil is subpar. Every homestead will be…
Folks, This Ain’t Normal by Joel Salatin
The Big Idea: Today's level of overconsumption and resource-depletion is unsustainable. Ch. 1: Children, Chores, Humility, and Health Historically, children had chores and responsibilities that taught them how to be…
SAS Survival Handbook by John Wiseman
The Big Idea: if you head out to the wilderness, tell someone exactly where you are going. Take a wilderness survival course to learn how to survive for a few days until…
Aquaponic Gardening by Sylvia Bernstein
The Big Idea: Aquaponic gardening is a symbiotic, permaculture-friendly version of gardening in which fish supply nutrients to plants, which then remove all fish waste from the water. Aquaculture dates…
Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew
Last year, I planted my first ever square root, raised bed vegetable garden with my girlfriend and had no idea what I was doing, we also had some trees, but…
Basic Wilderness Life Support
This was from a wilderness medicine course I took at BCM. The Big Idea: boil all water, clean wounds with soap and water, wash off poison ivy within 1-4 hours,…