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Bang, Jan Martin—Ecovillages: A Practical Guide to Sustainable Communities
Ecovillages explores the new departures in personal, social, and ecological living represented by this phenomenon. This book explores the background and history to the ecovillages movement and provides a comprehensive manual for planning, establishing, and maintaining a sustainable community using a permaculture approach

Bartholomew, John—Square Foot Gardening
The basic bible for intensive gardening. How to make a memorable garden in a small space, and do it with a minimum of the backbreaking labor usually associated with a really superior garden. Buy local at BookPeople!

LOCAL Beck, C. Malcolm & John Howard Garrett—The Texas Bug Book: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Honeybees in the flowers, fire ants in the yard, roaches in the kitchen--the good, the bad, and the ugly bugs are all over Texas! And they're here in the Texas Bug Book, your complete guide for identifying and organically controlling all of the most common Texas insects.

LOCAL Beck, C. Malcolm & John Howard Garrett—Texas Organic Vegetable Gardening (Gulf Publishing Company)
This book shows you how to have a healthy soil and recommends environmentally safe products and even some homemade remedies to control pests and disease in your garden. You'll get nuts and bolts information on companion planting and the use of beneficial insects.

LOCAL Bender, Kelly—Texas Wildscapes, Gardening for Wildlife
Creating backyard habitat to attract wildlife is what this book is all about. We yearn to get back to nature and to experience the sights and sounds of species other than our own. Finally, your backyard can also become a certified Official Texas Wildscape Site with its own weatherproof sign and a personalized certificate for you, sent by Texas Parks and Wildlife. The book contains instructions for applying.

Christian, Diana Leafe—Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities
The only resource available that provides step-by-step practical information distilled from numerous firsthand sources on how to establish an intentional community. It deals in depth with structural, interpersonal and leadership issues, decision-making methods, vision statements, and the development of a legal structure, as well as profiling well-established model communities. This exhaustive guide includes excellent sample documents among its wealth of resources.

Creasy, Rosalind—The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping (Sierra Club Books)
This comprehensive, feature-packed book shows how you can create more beauty around your home, grow delicious healthful produce, and save money and natural resources all at the same time--by landscaping with edible plants.

Daniels, Stevie—The Wild Lawn Handbook: Alternatives to the Traditional Front Lawn (MacMillan Publishing)
The definitive guide to transforming the traditional grass lawn into a beautiful alternative lawn using native grasses, ferns, mosses, wildflowers, low-growing shrubs, and perennials is now available in paperback.

Dannenmaier, Molly—A Child's Garden: Enchanting Outdoor Spaces (Simon & Schuster)
A gardening book filled with a full range of projects and creative approaches to gardening for children of all ages.

Elvitch, Craig R.—Pathways to Abundant Gardens (Permanent Agriculture Resources)
Although this book presents some how-to information, its primary purpose is to inspire novice and experienced gardeners. Most people have rarely had the opportunity to see a range of vibrant, diverse organic gardens, and these photos will give them a taste of what is certainly hiding in their own neighborhoods.

LOCAL Garrett, John Howard—The Dirt Doctor
With this information, professional and home gardeners alike can learn how to eliminate their chemical dependency and grow plants "the natural way." Let The Dirt Doctor's Guide to Organic Gardening be your one-stop source for cost-effective, earth-friendly, complete, and easy-to-understand gardening information.

LOCAL Garrett, John Howard—The Organic Manual
Around the world everyone is talking environmental issues and ‘going green’. Natural organic gardening and landscaping are important parts of this movement. Some organic proponents only say to stop using the chemicals. Garrett recommends stopping the use of toxic chemical pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, but goes on, in great detail, about the practical alternatives. This is one of the few gardening books effective for use coast to coast and border to border. The organic method has no geographic boundaries.

LOCAL Garrett, John Howard—Plants for Texas
In this one book, you'll find a virtual encyclopedia of over 500 Texas plants--trees, shrubs, flowers, vines, grasses, vegetables, fruits, weeds, and cover crops--along with complete, easily understood instructions for planting and maintaining them.

Gershuny, Grace—The Rodale Book of Composting: Easy Methods for Every Gardner
The broad spectrum of information given will be useful from backyard urban gardening on up to industrial, municipal, and farm recycling.

Groh, Trauger M. & Steve McFadden—Farms for Tomorrow, Revisited (Bio-Dynamic Farming & Gardening Association)
This book provides a thoughtful and compelling case for a new form of sustainable agriculture. Farming is not just a business, but a precondition for life on earth.

Guerra, Michael—The Edible Container Garden: Growing Fresh Food in Small Spaces (Fireside)
From decorative pots and old-fashioned boxes placed on a patio to mini-farms created on a balcony or rooftop, the joys of gardening and the pleasures of fresh produce come to life in this fully illustrated guide.

Haeg, Fritz—Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn
Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn documents the first four gardens with firsthand accounts written by the owners, garden plans, and photographs illustrating the creation of the gardens, from ripping up the grass to harvesting a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, and herbs.

Hagy, Fred—Landscaping with Fruits and Vegetables (Overlook Hardcover)
Most homeowners design their gardens as little decorative plots set amid expanses of green lawn. Europeans, on the other hand, have long understood the value of making the most of what the land has to offer, emphasizing a gardens potential for year-round productivity and beauty. This highly informative book offers a new approach -- providing lots of great ideas for a totally edible garden.

Hemenway, Toby—Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Permaculture is a verbal marriage of permanent and agriculture. Key features of this guide include: use of compatible perennials; non-invasive planting techniques; emphasis on biodiversity; specifically adaptable to local climate, landscape, and soil conditions; highly productive output of edibles. Buy local at BookPeople!

Holmgren, David—Permaculture: Principles and pathways beyond sustainability
David Holmgren brings into sharper focus the powerful and still evolving Permaculture concept he pioneered with Bill Mollison in the 1970s. It draws together and integrates 25 years of thinking and teaching to reveal a whole new way of understanding and action behind a simple set of design principles. The 12 design principles are each represented by a positive action statement, an icon and a traditional proverb or two that captures the essence of each principle.

Hutchins, Alma—A Handbook of Native American Herbs
This uniquely authoritative portable guide--based on the famous bible of American herbalists, Indian Herbalogy of North America--identifies and describes the uses for 125 medicinal herbs, and gives instructions for preparing herbal remedies.

Imhoff, Daniel—Farming with the Wild
Offers vivid profiles of more than thirty farms, ranches, and organizations in the United States, featuring a new agrarian movement that is slowly sweeping across the nation--a movement that aims to provide healthier food to Americans while restoring healthy ecosystems.

Jacke, Dave & Eric Toensmeir—Edible Forest Gardens
A groundbreaking two-volume work that spells out and explores the key concepts of forest ecology and applies them to the needs of natural gardeners in temperate climates.

Jeavons, John—How to Grow More Vegetables Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine
A detailed book on bio-intensive gardening and double digging. Shows how to produce a beautiful organic garden with minimal watering and care, whether it's just a few tomatoes in a tiny backyard or enough food to feed a family of four on less than half an acre.

Jeavons, John & Carol Cox—The Sustainable Vegetable Garden: A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soil and Higher Yields
This introduction to biointensive gardening shows that it is not only possible but easy to grow astonishing crops of healthful organic vegetable and fruits, while conserving resources and actually helping the soil. Buy local at BookPeople!

Johnson, Wendy—Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World
Wendy Johnson shares a wealth of practical knowledge and fascinating garden lore from her life’s work as a hands-on, on-her-knees gardener.

Kourik, Robert—Designing and Maintaining your Edible Landscape Naturally (New Age Foods)
The book explores the subterranean part of every gardeners world, revealing how roots really grow while dispelling myths such as where most gardeners apply water, mulch, and fertilizer or compost.

Kroeger, Hanna—Instant Herbal Locator (New Age Foods)
This text shows readers what herbs “mine” what minerals.

Lee, Andy & Pat Foreman—Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil
How to build and use a "chicken tractor," a simple, inexpensive, bottomless chicken cage/coop that can be moved around the farm as a portable source of fertilizer.

Lovell, Hugh—A Biodynamic Farm
A practical, how-to guide to making all of the biodynamic preparations, this book will provide what you need to put these proven techniques to work in your fields.

Lovgreen, Minnie Rose—Minnie Rose Lovgreen's Recipe for Raising Chickens: The Main Thing Is to Keep Them Happy
Out of print many years, then recently republished to show a new generation the joys of backyard chicken-raising. Sixty years of observations and know-how. Care for broody hens, raise baby chicks, build coops, promote quality egg production, calm irate roosters. No nonsense, straightforward. A classic for chicken enthusiasts.

Luedecke, Bill—Gardening in the Texas Hill Country
In addition to the basic "Monthly Duties," you will learn which tools and formulas work best in the rocky, alkaline soil of the Hill Country. You'll get the inside scoop on fending off deer and other critters that want to feast on your thriving plants. On the flip side, you'll learn how to attract hummingbirds and butterflies, how to build raised-bed gardens, and how to enjoy great home-grown fruits and vegetables or beautiful roses.

Earth User's Guide to Permaculture
Included in the text is an overview of the bromeliad family, where to procure plants, helpful tips on how to grow the most popular species, ten new bromeliads are described, as well as details about biology, propagation, hybridisation and new chemical treatments for bromeliads. The language is clear and concise, and an extensive glossary is included.

Mollison, Bill—Permaculture Design Manual
Permaculture Design Manual is a good reference for a designer from the preimer designer and writer on Permaculture.

LOCAL Nokes, Jill—How to Grow Native Plants of TX and the SW
How to Grow Native Plants of Texas and the Southwest has set the standard for both home and professional gardeners. Written when the native plant movement was just getting started, it helped convert a generation of gardeners to the practical and aesthetic values of using drought-tolerant plants in southwestern landscapes. This updated version continues in the originals legacy.

LOCAL Ogden, Scott & Lauren Springer Ogden—Plant Driven Design: Creating Gardens That Honor Plants, Place, and Spirit
Nationally renowned garden designers and horticultural consultants emphasize beautiful and diverse plantings, sustainability, and site sensitivity. Buy local at BookPeople!

Peace, Tom—Sunbelt Gardening: Success in Hot-Weather Climates
For gardeners who live in sunbelt regions of America--whether southeastern, southcentral, or southwestern--this book describes the differences that set hot-weather garden performers apart from other garden varieties.

Primeau, Liz—Front Yard Gardens: Growing More Than Grass
The front yard doesn't have to be a boring expanse of lawn and a row of shrubs. Here are many inventive ideas for doing much more with an often-neglected area of the yard.

Riotte, Louise—Carrots Love Tomatoes
This book tells you how to take advantage of the natural partnerships of plants to increase your harvest.

Rubin, Carol—How to Get Your Lawn Off Grass: A North American Guide to Turning Off the Water Tap and Going Native (Harbour Publishing)
This is a vital publication for all North Americans who are concerned about water scarcity and water quality.

Savory, Allan, Joan Butterfield & Jody Butterfield—Holistic Management
This book is an essential handbook for anyone involved with land management and stewardship and a valuable guide for all those seeking to make better decisions within their organizations or in any aspect of their personal lives.

Shapiro, Howard-Yano & John Harrisson—Gardening for the Future of the Earth (Bantam)
An array of organic gardeners advocate responsible use of the land in this collection of essays that includes Bill Mollison on permaculture and garden design, John Jeavons on soil, and Carol Deppe on seed-saving.

Toensmeier, Eric—Perennial Vegetables: From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, a Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-Grow Edibles
There is a fantastic array of vegetables you can grow in your garden, and not all of them are annuals. In Perennial Vegetables the adventurous gardener will find information, tips, and sound advice on less common edibles that will make any garden a perpetual, low-maintenance source of food. Locally available at Monkey Wrench Books.

Tompkins, Peter, Christopher Bird & William Thomas—The Secrets of Soil (Earthplus Press)
This book offers many different ways for each of us as individuals to help heal the soil - the very foundation of life under our own two feet - and to help heal OURSELVES in the process.

Tracey, David—Guerrilla Gardening: A Manualfesto
The term "guerrilla" may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerrilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are shovels, and the mission is to transform an abandoned lot into a thing of beauty. Once an environmentalist's nonviolent direct action for inner-city renewal, this approach to urban beautification is spreading to all types of people in cities around the world. Locally available at Monkey Wrench Books.

LOCAL Travis County Master Gardeners—Gardening Guide for Austin and Vicinity
Local information on vegetable garden planting, recommended vegetable varieties, local nurseries/garden centers, resources, farmers’ markets and farm stands, suggested books to read, and plant/seed resources.