Resources

Resources

 

APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY

Air-Drying Laun­dry

Build It Solar  

Build It Solar: Solar Water Heating

Build It Solar: Solar Elec­tric­ity or Photo Voltaics

Build It Solar: Solar Space Heating

Build It Solar: Mooney Wall

Build It Solar: DIY Projects

Chispito Wind Generator

 

 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

Solar Cook­ers Int’l

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

Methane Gen­er­a­tors

Wat­son Pumice Wick

Cre­ate an Oasis with Grey­wa­ter — Choos­ing, Build­ing & Using Grey­wa­ter Sys­tems

Get­ting Started with Greywater

Water Dis­in­fec­tion Bucket using Ultra­Vi­o­let Light

Toi­let Lid Sink

Cal­i­for­nia Grey­wa­ter Guide

Grey­wa­ter and Your Detergent

Grey­wa­ter Com­pat­i­ble Soaps and Detergents

Huma­nure

Com­post­ing Toilets

Sus­tain­able San­i­ta­tion Man­ual and Con­struc­tion Guide­lines For  Water­less Com­post­ing Toilet

Dr Leigh Davison’s Reedbed Waster Water Treat­ment research articles

Out­door Shower

 

AQUACULTURE

 Back­yard 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

Can Your Horse Go Barefoot

The Merck Vet­eri­nary Manual

Grow Plants for Bees

Xerces Soci­ety Plants for Bees North­ern CA Foothills

 Raw Milk Debate

DIY: Make a Goat Stanchion

 

COMPOST and COMPOST TEA and SOIL

Soil Food Web Primer

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

Soil Food Web: Elaine Ingham

 

 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

Small Farm Manuals

Ken Yeo­mans’ Key­line Web­site

P. A. Yoe­mans’ The Key­line Plan  Article

USDA Alter­na­tive Farm­ing Sys­tems Infor­ma­tion Cen­ter, Alter­na­tive Crops, Agroforestry

Small Farm Online Library

New Car­bon Ranch

 

GARDENING

Stop Rip­ping Up Lawns to Make Gardens

Rooftop Gar­dens 1

Mak­ing Seedballs

Mak­ing a Rain Garden

Bam­boo Gar­den — Port­land Per­ma­cul­ture Bam­boo Nursery

 

GREEN BUILDING  & ECO VILLAGE

Green Build­ing 

Pat­tern Lan­guage: Christo­pher Alexander

Gavio­tas– a vil­lage to rein­vent the world by Alan Weisman

Tabby Cement

Straw Bale  Journal

Straw Bale Construction

Hybrid Home Build­ing   scroll down

 

 

 

MUSHROOMS

How Mush­rooms Sequester Radiation 

 

OPEN SOURCE CONSTRUCTION

Open Source Con­struc­tion Set

 

 ORGANIZATIONS

Weston A. Price Foundation

Farm to Con­sumer Legal Defense Fund

Sierra Per­ma­cul­ture Guild

Cohous­ing Asso­ci­a­tion of America

Bioneers

 

PERMACULTURE DESIGN TOOLS

Google: SketchUp!

Peace­ful Val­ley Organic Gar­den­ing Sup­plies best selec­tion cover crop seeds

West­ern Ecol­ogy: Dixon Land Imprinters

Google SketchUp!

Your county’s GIS

 

PERENNIALS

Peren­nial Grains

How to Eat The Abun­dance Around You

 

PEST MANAGEMENT

Gar­den Pest Guide

Ben­e­fi­cial Insects for the Garden

Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia Inte­grated Pest Management

 

PLANT PROPOGATION

Plant Pro­poga­tion Methods

Plant pro­poga­tion by Layering

 

RECIPES

How to Make But­ter and Buttermilk

Cook­ing Your Family’s Tra­di­tional Foods

 

SEEDS

Adap­tive Seeds

Philip Howard: What’s hap­pen­ing to Seed Com­pa­nies and Who Owns Organic

Seed Start­ing

Grow­ing Heir­loom Seeds

Native Seed Search  

Seed Savers Exchange

Wild Gar­den Seeds

Good­win Creek Seeds

Nichols Herbs and Rare Seed Nursery

Hori­zon Herbs

 

SURVIVING TRANSITION

Com­ple­men­tary Currency

Alter­na­tive Money

Tran­si­tion Town USA

Prim­i­tive Ways: Prim­i­tive Tech­nol­ogy, Tra­di­tional Skills, and Hand­made Tools

How to Fix  Bicycles

EFT: Emo­tional Free­dom Technique

NVC: Non Vio­lent Communication

 

TIME

Pood­wad­dle World Clock

The US Debt Clock

 

TRACTORS, TRANSPORTATION  AND ROADS

Elec­tric Trac­tor and Elec­tric Trac­tor Specs

Roads that Work for People

The Ethanol Files

Traf­fic Calming

  

TREES

Tree Anatomy

Tree Care Sys­tems by my late  teacher  Alex Shigo    16 articles

Tree Care

National Agro­forestry Center

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

How Wind­breaks Work

Treepots from Stuewe and Sons 

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

Cit­rus

Avo­cado

Root­stocks for Apples

Amer­i­can Forests: Global ReLeaf

NAFEX: North Amer­cian Fruit Explorers

Cal­i­for­nia Rare Fruit Growers

 

MY FAVORITE FOOD FOREST and ORCHARD NURSERIES

Rain­tree Nursery

One Green World Nursery

Burnt Ridge Nursery

Lawyer Nurs­ery

Oikos Tree Crops

For­est Farm Seeds

Dave Wil­son Nurs­ery Fruit Trees: Back­yard Cul­ture  Education

Van Well Nurs­ery Fruit Trees

C and O Nurs­ery Fruit Trees

 

WATER

Ram Pump Plans

Gar­den in a Pool

Bap­tist Well Drilling  

Play­ground Equip­ment That Pumps Water– Let the Chil­dren Play and Pump Water

Bam­boo Trea­dle Pump

Test­ing Soil Mate­ri­als for Dam Construction

Chi­nama­pas in the Lake Regions of Aztec Mexico

Dew Ponds

 

WEEDS

Cal­i­for­nia Weed ID Tool

 

WHY WE NEED LOCAL FOOD  SYSTEMS

Must See: The Future of Food

Must See: Far­maged­don the Movie

Our Local Food Orga­ni­za­tion Local Food Coalition

 The Relo­cal­iza­tion Network