Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Hi everyone, I have tons to write! So much that it can't all be done in one post. Alex and I safely arrived in Ojai last night after spending the weekend with our traveling permie crew and a few more friends at the amazing Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival (a FREE fest that occurs every October at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco). My brother Ira, sister-in-law Aileen, and baby Meg are on their own adventure on the East coast and we're making camp in their wonderful house for the next few days. Work at Mano Farm begins tomorrow morning and I'm so excited to meet Justin and Quin, the founders and operators of Mano and its growing abundance of beautiful veggies and medicinal herbs. It also helps to have family here in Ojai (my aunt, uncle, cousins, and bro and sis and niece when they return) and it's going to be an amazing three weeks.




This morning, I finally finished compiling the ever evolving permaculture book list. Many were titles thrown out and passed around during our course in September while others are my own recommendations, or recommendations of other students. To boot, I've added whatever websites, documentaries, and other authors I could scribble down. Please feel free to add to or correct the list by using the comment function on this blog. Or comment to say "what's up" or whatever you're feeling as you transition into civilization again. WOAH!


I will also be adding my own videos from the class to this site, as well as a plethora of photos and relevant information.


This blog is a community space. Obviously, it's in its early stages but I would love to extend the invitation to any and all of you Permies and other folks that might feel inclined to write up a little post, or op-ed piece, or whateva you damn well please! You can email me and I'll post it with your name up here on my groovy and overly simplified cyber bulletin.


Once again, thank you for reading, everyone. For those I met in the last couple weeks, please keep checking back for tidbits from our class or to read whatever I write, or to publish something of your own.

Book List for All
OAEC Permaculture Intensive Sept. 2011
Mentioned by both instructors and students
Permaculture One - Bill Mollison and David Holmgren
Permaculture Two - Bill Mollison
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability - David Holmgren
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual - Bill Mollison
The One-Straw Revolution - Masanobu Fukuoka
Food Aid After 50 Years - Christopher Brendan Barrett, Daniel G. Maxwell
Self-Sufficiency for the 21st Century - Rick and Dick Sturges
Tree Crops - Joseph Russell Smith
Tending the Wild - Kat Anderson
Lost Crops of the Incas - National Research Council
Lost Crops of Africa - National Research Council
1491- Charles C. Mann
1493- Charles C. Mann
Cradle to Cradle - Bill Mckibben
Botany in a Day - Thomas J. Epel
Agriculture in the City: A Key Sustainability in Havana, Cuba - María Caridad Cruz, Roberto Sánchez Medina
Farm City - Novella Carpenter
By Nature’s Design - Pat Murphy
Animal Skulls - Mark Elbroch
The Fractal Geometry of Nature - Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Sacred Geometry - Stephan Skinner
Divine Proportion - Priya Hemenway
The Power of Limits - György Doczi
Water Storage - Art Ledwig
Watersheds - Clive Dobson and Gregor Gilpin Beck
Rainwater Harvesting - Brad Lancaster
Water For Every Form - unknown
Fearless Speech - Michael Foucault, Joseph Pearson
Open Space for Democracy - Terry Tempest Williams
Living Water: Viktor Schauberger and the Secrets of Natural Energy
The Synergistic Garden - Emilia Hazelip
The Earth Care Manual - Patrick Whitefield
Perennial Vegetables - Eric Toensmeier
Barefoot Architect - Johan van Lengen
Totem Salmon - Freeman House
Energy Efficiency and Environmental Landscaping - Anne Simon Moffat, Marc Schiler
Natural Building - Joseph Kennedy, Catherine Wanek, Michael G. Smith
Biogas Handbook - David House
Rocket Mass Heaters - Ianto Evans and Leslie Jackson
Humanure Handbook - Jospeh C. Jenkins
Urban Homestead - Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen
The Carbon-Free Home - Stephan and Rebekah Hren
Microhydro: Clean Power From Water - Scott Davis
Acquiring Genomes - Lynn Margulis and Dorian Sagan
The Farmer’s Earthworm Handbook- David Ernst
Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture
The Rebel Farmer - Sepp Holzer and Konrad Liebchen
The Secret Teachings of Plants - Stephan Harrod Buhner
Imperfect Balance - David Lewis Lentz
Dirt - David R. Montgomery
Holy Shit - Gene Logsdon
The Soul of Soil - Grace Gershuny and Joseph Smillie
Teeming with Microbes - Jeff Lowenfels, Wayne Lewis, Elaine Ingham
Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting...- Louise Riotte
Companion Planting - Susan McClure and Sally Roth
The Science of Dogon: Decoding the African Mystery Tradition - Laird Scranton, John Anthony West
(see also, Sacred Symbols of the Dogon and Cosmological Origins of Myth and Symbol)
Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind - Graham Hancock
(see also, other works)
The Best Thing I Ever Tasted - Sallie Tisdale
Wild Fermentation - Sandor Katz
(see also, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved)
The Findhorn Garden - George Trevelyan and The Findhorn Community
The Secret Life of Plants - Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird
What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Comsumption - Rachel Botsman, Roo Rogers
Other authors:
Sepp Holzer
E.O. Wilson
Vandana Shiva
DVDs:
Bill Mollison- Global Gardener
Graham Hancock's BBC documentary series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn3qV1BN3Ow)
Geoff Lawton- Harvesting Water: The Permaculture Way
The Milagro Beanfield War
Food Fight
Michael Ruppert’s Collapse


Online resources:
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  1. makoonceOctober 6, 2011 at 9:59 AM

    Hey Katy,
    The farm looks great! It looks like you will feel right at home. It's kind of a downer to watch our once booming garden come to a halt. We have a TON of dried herbs though. I'm glad you get to keep on truckin out there with the veggies. I'm excited to check out the videos that you have been taking.
    Love,
    Mike

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