100+ Best Permaculture & Homesteading Books: The Ultimate Reading List for Sustainable Living
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The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!
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Carleen Madigan
4.14 avg rating — 5,633 ratings 6. 
Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening
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Sepp Holzer
4.37 avg rating — 1,152 ratings 7. 
Edible Forest Gardens, Volume 2: Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate Climate Permaculture
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Dave Jacke
4.63 avg rating — 333 ratings 8. 
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Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners
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Suzanne Ashworth
4.21 avg rating — 1,773 ratings 12. 
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
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Paul Stamets
4.41 avg rating — 3,298 ratings 12. 
Pest Control for Organic Gardening: Natural Methods for Pest and Disease Control for a Healthy Garden
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Amber Richards
3.72 avg rating — 90 ratings 14. 
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
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Eliot Coleman
4.30 avg rating — 2,292 ratings 15. 
The Edible Front Yard: The Mow-Less, Grow-More Plan for a Beautiful, Bountiful Garden
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Ivette Soler
3.77 avg rating — 905 ratings 16. 
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The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
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Carol Deppe
4.19 avg rating — 691 ratings 19. 
Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream
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William Powers
3.68 avg rating — 1,273 ratings 20. 
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability
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David Holmgren
4.17 avg rating — 787 ratings 
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Growing Perennial Foods: A Field Guide to Raising Resilient Herbs, Fruits, and Vegetables
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Acadia Tucker
4.39 avg rating — 131 ratings 23. 
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The Quarter-Acre Farm: How I kept the patio, lost the lawn, and fed my family for a year
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Spring Warren
3.79 avg rating — 1,409 ratings 25. 
The Heirloom Life Gardener: The Baker Creek Way of Growing Your Own Food Easily and Naturally
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Jere Gettle
4.07 avg rating — 563 ratings 25. 
Edible Landscaping: Now You Can Have Your Gorgeous Garden and Eat It Too!
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Rosalind Creasy
4.19 avg rating — 593 ratings 27. 
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Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables
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Mike Bubel
4.11 avg rating — 1,762 ratings 29. 
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The Winter Harvest Handbook: Four Season Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses
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Eliot Coleman
4.34 avg rating — 1,313 ratings 31. 
Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture
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Ross Conrad
3.94 avg rating — 313 ratings 32. 
Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving
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Carol Deppe
4.47 avg rating — 172 ratings 
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The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach
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Ben Falk
4.36 avg rating — 790 ratings 36. 
Edible Forest Gardens, Vol. 1: Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture
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Dave Jacke
4.48 avg rating — 668 ratings 37. 
Permaculture 1: A Perennial Agriculture for Human Settlements (Permaculture, #1)
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Bill Mollison
4.40 avg rating — 162 ratings 
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Permaculture 2: Practical Design for Town and Country in Permanent Agriculture (Permaculture, #2)
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Bill Mollison
4.29 avg rating — 146 ratings 40. 
Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System for Bountiful Gardens: No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding!
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Patricia Lanza
3.98 avg rating — 1,090 ratings 41. 
Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-Ourselves Guide
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Scott Kellogg
3.93 avg rating — 531 ratings 
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Perennial Vegetables: From Artichoke to Zuiki Taro, a Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-grow Edibles
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Eric Toensmeier
4.17 avg rating — 738 ratings 45. 
Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens 4.45 avg rating — 3,470 ratings
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Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening
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Louise Riotte
4.04 avg rating — 2,943 ratings 
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Canning & Preserving Your Own Harvest: An Encyclopedia of Country Living Guide
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Carla Emery
3.77 avg rating — 66 ratings 49. 
Independence Days: A Guide to Sustainable Food Storage & Preservation
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Sharon Astyk
4.03 avg rating — 419 ratings 50. 
When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency
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Matthew Stein
3.96 avg rating — 479 ratings 51. 
Roots Demystified: Change Your Gardening Habits to Help Roots Thrive
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Robert Kourik
3.87 avg rating — 45 ratings 52. 
The Rodale Book of Composting: Easy Methods for Every Gardener
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Grace Gershuny
4.05 avg rating — 514 ratings 
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The Permaculture Way: Practical Steps to Create a Self-Sustaining World
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Graham Bell
3.94 avg rating — 99 ratings 55. 
Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community
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Heather Flores
3.83 avg rating — 1,072 ratings 56. 
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Herbal Medicine: Homemade Herbal Remedies for Common Ailments
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Joanna Winters
4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings 57. 
Growing Good Food: A Citizen's Guide to Backyard Farming
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Acadia Tucker
4.32 avg rating — 113 ratings 60. 
The Self-Sufficient Gardener: A Complete Guide to Growing and Preserving All Your Own Food
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John Seymour
4.42 avg rating — 548 ratings 
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The Transition Companion: Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times
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Rob Hopkins
4.41 avg rating — 80 ratings 
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Vegetable Gardening: Beginner's Guide to Growing Organic Vegetables At Home
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Joanna Winters
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings 64. 
Herb Gardening: Beginner's Guide to Growing Organic Herbs At Home
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Joanna Winters
4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings 66. 
One Magic Square: The Easy, Organic Way to Grow Your Own Food on a 3-Foot Square
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Lolo Houbein
3.88 avg rating — 370 ratings 67. 
The Beekeeper's Bible: Bees, Honey, Recipes & Other Home Uses
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Richard A. Jones
4.51 avg rating — 725 ratings 68. 
Aquaponic Gardening: A Step-by-Step Guide to Raising Vegetables and Fish Together
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Sylvia Bernstein
4.13 avg rating — 709 ratings 68. 
The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
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Scott Nearing
4.12 avg rating — 2,001 ratings 70. 
The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country
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Peter Bane
4.11 avg rating — 331 ratings 70. 
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Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, First Edition
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Fritz Haeg
3.62 avg rating — 255 ratings 75. 
Your Farm in the City: An Urban Dweller's Guide to Growing Food and Raising Animals 3.88 avg rating — 257 ratings
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The Biochar Solution: Carbon Farming and Climate Change
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Albert Bates
3.91 avg rating — 70 ratings 
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Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
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Jeff Lowenfels
4.41 avg rating — 1,772 ratings 81. 
Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change
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David Holmgren
3.75 avg rating — 88 ratings 82. 
Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting
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R.J. Ruppenthal
3.69 avg rating — 645 ratings 83. 
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On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening Without Boundaries
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Richard Reynolds
3.71 avg rating — 323 ratings 85. 
The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience
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Rob Hopkins
4.01 avg rating — 967 ratings 86. 
Wind Power: Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business
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Paul Gipe
3.92 avg rating — 40 ratings 
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century 3.83 avg rating — 3,161 ratings
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Good Life Lab: Radical Experiments in Hands-On Living
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Wendy Tremayne
3.69 avg rating — 494 ratings 92. 
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Agritourism and Nature Tourism in California, 2nd Edition
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Holly George
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 92. 
Gene Everlasting: A Contrary Farmer's Thoughts on Living Forever
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Gene Logsdon
4.13 avg rating — 92 ratings 92. 
Aquaponics for Beginners: How to Build your own Aquaponic Garden that will Grow Organic Vegetables
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Nick Brooke
4.28 avg rating — 86 ratings