Resources
APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY
Build It Solar: Solar Water Heating
Build It Solar: Solar Electricity or Photo Voltaics
Build It Solar: Solar Space Heating
APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY: SUSTAINABLE KITCHEN
Hooking Your Grain Mill to a Bicycle
Build a Solar Food Dehydrator from Cardboard Boxes
What is a BioGas Digester and BioGas Specs
Sheepherder’s Portable Wood Stove with hot water jacket
Sport Solar Oven for year round solar cooking
Kerr Cole Sustainable Living Center
SolAqua Solar Water Distillers
APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY: ECO-SANITATION
Do You Know How Much Water You Really Use ? Measure Your Water Footprint
Create an Oasis with Greywater — Choosing, Building & Using Greywater Systems
Getting Started with Greywater
Water Disinfection Bucket using UltraViolet Light
California Greywater Guide
Greywater and Your Detergent
Greywater Compatible Soaps and Detergents
Dr Leigh Davison’s Reedbed Waster Water Treatment research articles
AQUACULTURE
ANIMALS
American Livestock Breeds Conservancy
Chicken Breeds and Characteristics: comparing 60 chicken breeds
Linda Woodrow, inventor of Chicken Tractors’ Plans for Chicken Geodesic Dome
How to Know if Your Horse Has Hoof Problems
Xerces Society Plants for Bees Northern CA Foothills
COMPOST and COMPOST TEA and SOIL
Nutrient Content of Natural Materials
Soil Food Web Approach to Compost Tea
NRCS Soil Quality Publications
Baseline™ liquid and granular humus probiotic soil supplement
International Cultural Collection of Mycorrhizal Fungi
Texas Cooperative Extension PlantAnswers: Compost
DATABASES
Plants for a Future Database 9000 edible plants
Cyberbotanica: Herbal Databases and Knowledge Bases
University of Michigan: Native American Ethnobotany
Dr. James Duke’s PhytoChemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
ATTRA National Sustainable Ag Info Service
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Services Database
Urban Forest Ecosystems Institute: SelecTree Tree Selection Guide
SAREP UC Davis Cover Crop Data Base
Michael’s Plant Materials Database
Sierra Foothills Native Plant Database
Permaculture Plant Database
EDUCATION
U.C. Master Gardener Program: Placer and Nevada Counties
SAGE: Sustainable Ag Education
FARMING, BROADACRE
Handy Farm Devices and how to make Them
Ken Yeomans’ Keyline Website
P. A. Yoemans’ The Keyline Plan Article
USDA Alternative Farming Systems Information Center, Alternative Crops, Agroforestry
GARDENING
Stop Ripping Up Lawns to Make Gardens
Bamboo Garden — Portland Permaculture Bamboo Nursery
GREEN BUILDING & ECO VILLAGE
Pattern Language: Christopher Alexander
Gaviotas– a village to reinvent the world by Alan Weisman
Hybrid Home Building scroll down
MUSHROOMS
How Mushrooms Sequester Radiation
OPEN SOURCE CONSTRUCTION
Open Source Construction Set
ORGANIZATIONS
Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund
Cohousing Association of America
PERMACULTURE DESIGN TOOLS
Peaceful Valley Organic Gardening Supplies — best selection cover crop seeds
Western Ecology: Dixon Land Imprinters
Your county’s GIS
PERENNIALS
How to Eat The Abundance Around You
PEST MANAGEMENT
Beneficial Insects for the Garden
University of California Integrated Pest Management
PLANT PROPOGATION
Plant propogation by Layering
RECIPES
How to Make Butter and Buttermilk
Cooking Your Family’s Traditional Foods
SEEDS
Philip Howard: What’s happening to Seed Companies and Who Owns Organic
Nichols Herbs and Rare Seed Nursery
SURVIVING TRANSITION
Primitive Ways: Primitive Technology, Traditional Skills, and Handmade Tools
EFT: Emotional Freedom Technique
NVC: Non Violent Communication
TIME
TRACTORS, TRANSPORTATION AND ROADS
Electric Tractor and Electric Tractor Specs
TREES
Tree Care Systems by my late teacher Alex Shigo 16 articles
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Agroforestry
West Coast Food Forest Zone 8
University of California: California Backyard Orchard
Illustrated Spring Frost Damage Thresholds for Fruit Trees
Late Fall/ Winter Blooming Trees
The Overstory– Agroforestry Journal
Fruitipedia: Online Encyclopedia on Edible Fruits
Fedco Trees: Many Old Time and Very Rare Apple Varieties
California Rare Fruit Growers fruit facts
California Rare Fruit Growers tidbits
American Forests: Global ReLeaf
NAFEX: North Amercian Fruit Explorers
California Rare Fruit Growers
MY FAVORITE FOOD FOREST and ORCHARD NURSERIES
Dave Wilson Nursery Fruit Trees: Backyard Culture Education
WATER
Playground Equipment That Pumps Water– Let the Children Play and Pump Water
Testing Soil Materials for Dam Construction
Chinamapas in the Lake Regions of Aztec Mexico
WEEDS
WHY WE NEED LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS
Must See: Farmageddon the Movie
Our Local Food Organization Local Food Coalition
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