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I get a lot of question about resources so I thought it would be helpful to create a resource page with a list of books, videos and courses that I can point people to. I’ll add to it as I learn more but for now, it’s really a comprehensive list.

There is a lot of material here, and to be honest, I haven’t read all the book, watch all the videos or took all the courses but everything I included in the list comes highly recommended from the people in the permaculture community. I recommend bookmarking this site for your reference. Enjoy!

Table of Contents [hide]
1 THE BIG PICTURE
2 INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE
3 PERMACULTURE DESIGN
4 UNDERSTANDING SOIL
5 GROWING – PLANT GUIDES, PROPAGATION, GARDENING
5.1 Plants guides & Indexes
5.2 Plant propagation
5.3 Small Scale Vegetable Gardening
5.4 Edible Landscaping
5.5 Forest gardening and Food Forests
5.6 Fungi and Growing Mushrooms
6 STARTING OUT WITH THE PERMACULTURE FARM
6.1 Finances and decision-making
6.2 Examples of successful farms
6.3 Water management and earthworks
6.4 Market gardening
6.5 Permaculture orchards, tree crops and agroforestry
6.6 Integrating animals
6.7 Selling, Marketing, and Business
Disclosure: Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links which means that I will earn a commission if you decide to make a purchase. There is no additional cost to you and this is a way to support the work I do. So I thank you for your support.

THE BIG PICTURE

Many people don’t know that Permaculture as a design system specifically evolved over the last 30 years to creatively respond to futures that involve progressively less and less available energy. Its emergence was very much influenced by the publication of the seminal Limits To Growth report in 1972, both Bill Mollison and David Holmgren believed that permaculture was going to be projected into a collapsing world…the books and websites below are a great starting point if you want to learn more about where we’re headed as a society and what to expect.

Books:

Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change
Crash on Demand: Welcome to the Brown Tech Future
The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future Of Our Economy, Energy, And Environment
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Security
Prosper!: How to Prepare for the Future and Create a World Worth Inheriting
When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency, 2nd Edition
The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology)
Websites:

Peak Prosperity: Crash Course
National Intelligence Council Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds
Future Scenarios by David Holmgren
INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE

If you’re new to permaculture start by reading Gaia’s Garden, this is the best introductory book for the newcomers, and watch some free videos from Geoff Lawton to get an idea what’s possible with permaculture. Brief introduction to permaculture course is great for getting some background on the whole subject. All these books are a great read especially practical insights of Sepp Holzer and Ben Falk.

Books:

Introduction to Permaculture Revised Edition
The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming
Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition
The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach
Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening
Restoration Agriculture: Real-World Permaculture for Farmers
Videos:

Geoff Lawton’s free videos
Sepp Holzer the agro rebel video (free)
INHABIT: A Permaculture Perspective – website for the video
Design for life: Permaculture – The Food Forest Story
Restoration Agriculture in Practice
Courses (Free):

A Brief Introduction to Permaculture
Professor Will Hooker: Introduction to Permaculture
PERMACULTURE DESIGN

First and fourth most you’ll need A Designers Manual, this is the permaculture bible. Then watch Bill Mollison Permaculture Lecture Series, these are the videos taken from his two design courses. Another great resource is Permaculture Skills DVD which distills 20 days of Permaculture Courses into 7.5 hours of instructional video learning. In this list, I also included some apps and software that you can use for your designs. If you feel stuck I have written a guide on How to design your property where I explain the process of Permaculture Design, step by step.

Books:

Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual by Bill Mollison
Permaculture: The Essence by David Holmgren (free e-book)
Regrarians Handbook by Darren J. Doherty
The Bio-Integrated Farm by Shawn Jadrnicek
A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
Videos:

Permaculture Skills: Cold Climate, Applied Permaculture Design Course
Introduction to Permaculture Design by Geoff Lawton
Permaculture Principles and Design Series with Jack Spirko (free)
Courses:

Bill Mollison Permaculture Lecture Series, On-Line (free)
Permaculture Design Course with Scott Pittman
Permaculture Designers Certification (PDC) Course by Permaethos
Apps and Software:

Google earth (free)
Sun Surveyor
Sun Seeker
Suncalc
Slope app
UNDERSTANDING SOIL

Building soil for better crops is an excellent free resource and a guide to ecological soil management. All other books are also essential for a better understanding of soil’s web of life. Elaine Ingham’s and Gabe Brown’s videos are a must watch. Also, there are good courses on soil restoration but they’re rather expensive so before delving into those read all the books you can get your hands on and while you’re at it read my guide on building deep rich soils by imitating nature.

Books:

Building Soils for Better Crops, 3rd Edition (free)
Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web
Roots Demystified: Change Your Gardening Habits to Help Roots Thrive
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
Gardener’s Guide to Better Soil
Soil biology primer by Elaine R Ingham
Videos:

Permaculture Soils with Geoff Lawton
Elaine Ingham Videos (free)
Gabe Brown: Keys To Building a Healthy Soil (free)
Courses:

Soil Foodweb – Life In The Soil Online Courses by Elaine Ingham
GROWING – PLANT GUIDES, PROPAGATION, GARDENING

Plants guides & Indexes

To start growing something, you’ll need trees, shrubs, perennial and annuals. If you’re after seeds, The Seed Search by Karen Platt is the best book to find any kind of seeds imageable. Plants For a Future is a wonderful web database for finding potential plants to grow and all the books I mentioned have detailed descriptions of the plants you might want to get. I also included Leafsnap App that can recognise plants based on the leaf photo you take by your smartphone.

Books:

Plants for a Future: Edible & Useful Plants for a Healthier World
Permaculture Plants: A Selection by Jeff Nugent
Perennial Vegetables: From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, A Gardener’s Guide to Over 100 Delicious and Edibles
Apps and Databases:

The Seed Search
Plant Index TCPermaculture (free)
Plants For a Future (free)
Leafsnap App (free)
Plant propagation

This will be one of your most important skill as a permaculturist and it saves you money too. There is a ton of resources on the web about propagation but if I had to recommend only one it would be American Horticultural Society Plant Propagation book. The Grafter’s Handbook is one of the best books on grafting. For video tutorials on different plant propagation techniques and nursery setups check Mike’s Backyard Nursery youtube channel.

Books:

The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds: 322 Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, Flowers, Trees, and Shrubs
Seed Germination Theory and Practice; by Professor Norman C. Deno (free PDF)
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners, 2nd Edition
The Grafter’s Handbook by Robert Garner 1979.
American Horticultural Society Plant Propagation: The Fully Illustrated Plant-by-Plant Manual of Practical Techniques
The Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation: From Seed to Tissue Culture
Videos:

Mikes Backyard Nursery (free)
Courses:

Plant Propagation Course by Permaethos
Small Scale Vegetable Gardening

There is a saying ‘growing your food is like printing your money’ and realistically, you don’t need that much space to produce enough food for your own needs. Start with Square Foot Gardening and fundamentals and read other books to build upon that.

Books:

All New Square Foot Gardening, Second Edition: The Revolutionary Way to Grow More In Less Space
The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book: Secrets of the Famous Year-Round Mulch Method
The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
How to Grow More Vegetables, Eighth Edition
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
Four-Season Harvest Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year-Round Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses
Edible Landscaping

Learn how to design your productive environment using vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs with these two great how-to manuals.

Books:

Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist: How to Have Your Yard and Eat It Too
Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape Naturally
Forest gardening and Food Forests

Want to create a food forest on your land? Read Martin Crawford’s Creating a Forest Garden first, it’s simple, practical, straight to the point. If you want more advanced stuff read Edible Forest Gardens or you could read my step-by-step guide where I summarise all the info from the books into easy to follow guide. Geoff Lawton has a great DVD about establishing a food forest and also has some free videos too.

Books:

Edible Forest Gardens (2 volume set)
Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops
Forest Gardening: Cultivating an Edible Landscape, 2nd Edition
Farming the Woods: An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate Forests
Forest Ecology
Videos:

Establish a food Forest by Geoff Lawton
A Forest Garden Year with Martin Crawford
Courses:

A Permaculture Designed Food Forest Course by Michael Pilarski
Food Forest Design & Care for Cites and Suburbs by Toby Hemenway
Fungi and Growing Mushrooms

Books:

Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation: Simple to Advanced and Experimental Techniques for Indoor and Outdoor Cultivation
Radical Mycology A Treatise on Seeing and Working with Fungi
Mycorrhizal Planet: How Symbiotic Fungi Work with Roots to Support Plant Health and Build Soil Fertility
Teaming with Fungi: The Organic Grower’s Guide to Mycorrhizae (Science for Gardeners)
STARTING OUT WITH THE PERMACULTURE FARM

Finances and decision-making

You have to start from somewhere so read Your money or your life to asks yourself some life changing questions. Then, learn how to save money for your farm by reading Early retirement extreme and do what it takes to be mortgage free like Rob Roy recommends. Be guided by your holistic goals in your process of planning the future you want and deciding where to settle.

Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence
Early Retirement Extreme: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Financial Independence
Mortgage Free!: Innovative Strategies for Debt-Free Home Ownership, 2nd Edition
Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision Making
Examples of successful farms

Don’t try to reinvent the wheel, read about examples how other are running their farms and making a living out of it.

Polyfaces Documentary
Paradise Lot/Food Forest Farm: Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates – 1/10 acre suburban backyard
Whole Systems Design: Ben Falk – 10-acre farmstead
Melliodora: David Holmgren – 2-acre homestead in a small rural township
Miracle Farms: Stefan Sobkowiak – 5-acre commercial permaculture orchard
Les Jardins de LaGrelinette: Jean-Martin Fortier – 1.5-acre market garden
Food Forest: Annemarie and Graham Brookman – 37-acre permaculture farm and learning centre
New Forest Farm: Mark Shepard – 100 broad acre silvopasture farm
Versaland: Grant Schultz– 145-acre farm, laboratory and homestead
Water management and earthworks

The first thing you’ll need to set up on your farm is water systems and learn how to harvest, store and redistribute that water. There are many resources on the subject, all books below are well worth of a read. Geoff specialises in water harvesting earthworks, so his DVD is a good one to watch. Paul Wheaton’s 3-DVD set is also a wealth of information on earthworks and hugelkulturs.

Books:

Create an Oasis with Greywater: Choosing, Building, and Using Greywater Systems, Includes Branched Drains
Water Storage: Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers, and Ponds for Domestic Supply, Fire and Emergency Use–Includes How to Make Ferrocement Water Tanks
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond (Vol. 2): Water-Harvesting Earthworks
Water for Every Farm – Yeomans Keyline Plan by P. A and Ken Yeomans.
Videos:

World Domination Gardening 3-DVD set – Earthworks and Hugelkultur by Paul Wheaton
Harvesting Water by Geoff Lawton
Courses:

Permaculture Design for Conserving Water
Market gardening

Market Gardening is the quickest way to get some income from your farm, but it requires knowledge, practice, and dedication. Elliot Coleman’s The New Organic Grower is a classic, start with that, if you’re serious about gearing up some production and selling it to the market read The Market Gardener this is the manual for market gardening, I also wrote a pretty popular post about his operation. Profitable Urban Farming course by Curtis Stone is the online course to take if you want to shortcut your way to success.

Books:

The New Organic Grower: A Master’s Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener
The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower’s Handbook for Small-scale Organic Farming
Market Farming Success: The Business of Growing and Selling Local Food
The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land by Curtis Allen Stone
The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer: The Ultimate Guide to Producing High-Quality Herbs on a Market Scale
Courses:

Profitable Urban Farming by Curtis Stone
Permaculture orchards, tree crops and agroforestry

If you’re planning an orchard or have an existing one that you want to covert read The Holistic orchard for a great introduction to the subject, then watch the Permaculture Orchard DVD as a reference on how to set it up and learn as much as you can from Stefan’s book. Read my post where I go in details about Stefan’s operation. Scaling up, Edible Agroforestry Designs is an amazing free resource on setting up agroforestry systems.

On the other hand, If you’re in a position to manage forests or woodlands on your property read Ben Law’s The Woodland Way or Michael Pilarski’s Restoration Forestry on how to do it sustainably.

Books:

The Holistic Orchard: Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way
Permaculture Orchard book by Stefan Sobkowiak (free)
Restoration Forestry: An International Guide to Sustainable Forestry Practices
The Woodland Way: A Permaculture Approach To Sustainable Woodland Management
Edible Agroforestry Designs: Large scale edible landscaping (free)
Growing Hybrid Hazelnuts: The New Resilient Crop for a Changing Climate
Videos:

The Permaculture Orchard: Beyond Organic
Integrating animals

With animals comes in the responsibility but also a great opportunity for improving the soil, healthy food and healthy profits. I would recommend reading Holistic Management Handbook, an excellent guide on how to implement holistic management. Then read Joel’s books on his proven systems of pastured poultry and cattle and Greg Judy’s No risk ranching. If you’re into keeping chickens than Justin’s Rhodes Permaculture Chicken is the video to watch.

Books:

Salad Bar Beef
Pastured Poultry Profit$
Holistic Management Handbook: Healthy Land, Healthy Profits
No Risk Ranching: Custom Grazing on Leased Land
Videos:

Permaculture Chickens by Justin Rhodes – watch his free videos here
Selling, Marketing, and Business

If you want to make your farm financially sustainable than let’s talk business. Read Joe’s inspirational You Can Farm and Booker T. Whatley’s Handbook for both inspiration and great advice. Learn how to manage finances with The Organic Farmer’s Business Handbook. Other two books don’t have much to do with farming but are essential to understanding marketing and selling.

Books:

The Organic Farmer’s Business Handbook: A Complete Guide to Managing Finances, Crops, and Staff – and Making a Profit
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
Booker T. Whatley’s Handbook on How to Make $100,000 Farming 25 Acres: With Special Plans for Prospering on 10 to 200 Acres
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk!
The Psychology of Selling: Increase Your Sales Faster and Easier Than You Ever Thought Possible
The Lean Farm: How to Minimize Waste, Increase Efficiency, and Maximize Value and Profits with Less Work