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