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Reading and Planting in 2024

The New Year is a great time to put our permaculture plans, dreams, and desires into practice; to do a little more for ourselves, Earth, and each other. To start the year off right, below are several books to read to prepare and inspire you, along with seed and plant companies for your next Zone 0 herb grow, Zone 1 vegetable garden, or Zone 2 Food Forest.

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What Holds You Back?

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The News - 10 July 2023

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The News - 1 July 2023

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Maine Local Living School

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The Power of Fiction to Create Permanent Culture

Permaculture Teacher and Author Rosemary Morrow, standing outside, wearing a black sweater over a red shirt.

Rosemary Morrow's Journey to Permaculture

Alley Cropped grazing fields at "The Hill" on Turner's Run farm in Australia, showing rows of trees planted on contour with open pasture between the rows.

Alley Cropping with Eric Toensmeier

Background: A river meandering between farm fields with a lush forest to the upper left. Foreground: In the upper left, the cover of the book The One Straw Revolutionary showing Masanobu Fukuoka standing in and looking over a farm field.

Natural Farming and Masanobu Fukuoka

Background: a bucket of charged biochar. In the foreground at the top quarter of the image is the logo for GreenGro Biologicals, beneath this, starting at the middle of the image, is a headshot of podcast guest Mark Ervin

Terra Preta and Biochar - Mark Ervin

The background is a three-quarter view of a basket of vegetables including an eggplant, lettuce, and radishes. In the foreground to the upper left, surrounded in a gray border is an image of Rachel Kaplan, with the camera pointed up at here. In the lower right, surrounded by a gray border is an image of the cover of her book, Urban Homesteading.

Urban Homesteading - Rachel Kaplan

Background: Deep in the woods at night with moonlight filtering through. Foreground, left: a picture of Chris Salisbury in a boat with water and woods around him. Foreground on the right: the cover of Chris's book Wild Nights Out.

Chris Salisbury - Wild Nights Out

Background: a butcher block table with the tools of this craft on top, including two knives, a bone saw, and a cut-resistant glove. In the upper right hand corner, is an inset picture of Andrew Magazine with his chin resting on this hands and a broad brimmed hat on his head against a dark background.

Andrew Magazine - Craft Butchery

Katy Bowman in an exercise studio wearing a white scarf and black, long sleeve shirt against a light blue cinder-block wall. On the left are cover images for two of her books. The top one is "Move Your DNA" the bottom one is "Grow Wild."

Katy Bowman - Nutritious Movement

A colony of bees working on a wax comb. The bar for the frame can be seen in the middle of the image, also covered in bees.

Dr. Dennis vanEnglesdorp - Bees

The logo for Regenerative Media Alliance. The left side of the image contains a microphone as the trunk of a tree with the branches and leaves depicted as radio waves emitted from the top with roots extending from the microphone bottom. The text "Regenerative Media Alliance" is on the right half of the picture.

Regenerative Media Alliance

Together We Can - Recap and Resources

The Renegade Economist on Right Livelihoods

State of the Podcast Address

Renard Turner - Land-Based Culture and New Age Agrarianism

Final Thoughts - Permaculture, Land and Land Access. Episode 7

Improving Land Access - Permaculture, Land and Land Access. Episode 6

Reana Kovalcik - Permaculture, Land, and Land Access. Episode 5.

Amyrose Foll - Permaculture, Land, and Land Access. Episode 4.

Sarah Mock - Permaculture, Land, and Land Access. Episode 3.

Jesse Frost - Permaculture, Land, and Land Access. Episode 2.

Permaculture, Land, and Land Access

Lobelia Commons - Earthbound Farmer's Almanac

Vicki Hird - Rebugging the Planet

Shantree Kacera - The Living Centre

Gigi Berardi - FoodWISE