A Reading List of the Natural World
Shelter
A Pattern Language-(2nd half). Christopher Alexander
Homework, Builders of the Pacific Coast, Lloyd Kahn
Understanding Wood, Bruce Hoadley
A Timberframer's Workshop, Steve Chappell
Frame Construction, Rob Thallon
Interior Details, Rob Thallon
Homestead Arts
The Homesteading Handbook, Carla Emery
Humanure Handbook, Joe Jenkins
The Bread-Builder’s Book: Alan Scott, Dan Wing
The Natural World
Reading the Forested Landscape, Tom Wessells
In a Patch of Fireweed, A Year in the Maine Woods, and The Trees in My Forest, Bernd Heinrich
Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide , Lawrence Newcomb
Farming
Small Scale Sustainable Farming, Karl Schwenke
The New Organic Grower, Elliot Coleman
Sepp Holzer's Permaculture
Charlotte’s Web, E B White
Robert Frost
Philosophy
Living the Good Life, Scott and Helen Nearing
Walden, H D Thoreau
A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold