Resources

These are our favorite web resources on various topics, and books (in italics) which you'll find on our bookshelves:

General Home Ec/Appropriate Tech/DIY Living

• Mother Earth News
• Backwoods Home Magazine 
• AfriGadget 
• The Survival Podcast
• The Urban Homestead
• Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World
• Radical Homemakers
• The Integral Urban House
• Made by Hand
• Farm City
• The Natural Kitchen
• Country Wisdom and Know-How
• Wendell Berry's essays
• John Seymore's many books

Gardening/Home Orcharding

• UC Integrated Pest Management Information
• Garden Professor's Blog
• Garden Rant
• Dave Wilson Nursery Guide to Backyard Orchard Culture Guide
• Soil and Health Library

Beekeeping

• Backwards Beekeepers
• Kirk's Urban Bees
• The Practical Beekeeper
  
• Principles of Backwards Beekeeping
• Backyard Ecosystem
• Idiot's Guide to Beekeeping

Biking

• Urban Velo
• Streetsblog LA
• Bike Snob NYC
• Bike Tech Info
• Bicycle Kitchen
• The Art of Cycling

Chickens

• Poultry Bookstore Blog
• Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens 
• Backyard Poultry Magazine
  

Composting/Soil

• The Humanure Handbook (This is our favorite composting book--no matter what material we're composting.)
• Humanure Handbook in free pdfs
• Rodale Book of Composting
• Worms Eat My Garbage
• Culture and Horticulture 
• Soil Food Web Primer

DIY Solar

• Build it Solar
• Solar Cooking Archive

Fermentation

• Wild Fermentation website
• Wild Fermentation
• Keeping Food Fresh

Greywater/Rainwater

• Brad Lancaster
• Oasis Design
• Greywater Guerrillas
• Aquabarrel
• Create an Oasis with Greywater
• Water Storage: Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers and Ponds
• DIY water projects @Build it Solar

Herbal Medicine

 (We're missing some classic titles here, but these books are on our shelves and we like them.)

• Backyard Medicine
• Herbal Antibiotics
• Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West
• Healing with Medicinal Plants of the West

Permaculture

• Sustainable Habitats
• Plants for a Future Database
• Permaculture Research Institute of Australia

Seed Sources:

• Seed Starter's Handbook (pdf)
• Seeds From Italy
• Peaceful Valley
• Native Seeds
• Bountiful Gardens 

Self Irrigating Planters

• Green Roof Growers 
• How to Build a Self Watering Container PDF
• PVC-free instructions from Josh Mandel
• Our You Tube video on how to build one
• Our blog roundup of related resources