Reading List

"If I have seen further, it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton, and others.

I haven't been able to read as much as I would have liked, but my ideas and opinions in sustainable agriculture have largely been shaped by the books I've read. These have been an important part of my studies, so I will include reference to them as progress towards a degree in Applied Permaculture. This isn't a complete list but I would say it contains the most important works.

In no particular order,

Living the Good Life, Helen and Scott Nearing

Continuing the Good Life, Helen and Scott Nearing

Plowman's Folly, Edward Faulkner

Malabar Farm, Louis Bromfield

Tomorrow's Table, Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak

Slow Money, Chelsea Green

Becoming Native to This Place, Wes Jackson

The 4 Season Harvest, Elliot Coleman

The New Organic Grower,  Elliot Coleman

Building Soils Naturally, Phil Nuata

Radical Agriculture, (collection of essays) edited by Richard Merrill

Louis Bromfield at Malabar, edited by Charles E. Little

The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer, Joel Salatin

You Can Farm, Joel Salatin

The Road Back to Nature, Fukuoka

The Natural Way of Farming, Fukuoka

The Ultimate of God Nature (self published), Fukuoka

Permaculture 1, Bill Mollison

Return to Resistance, Raoul Robinson

Small Is Beautiful, E.F. Schumacher

Silent Spring, Rachel Carson

Anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner 

Endgame, Derrick Jensen

Selected readings from, 

Permaculture, Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability, David Holmgren.

The Albrecht Papers 1, William Albrecht

Permaculture: A Designer's Manual, Bill Mollison

Articles,

Back to Eden by Evan Eisenberg

Weeds as Teachers by Jill Clapperton

I originally decided to go into organic agriculture because of writing from Gandhi, Tolstoy, Thoreau and Vandana Shiva.