Resources

The following books/articles/films have been of great use for us in our work. We encourage you to check them out, or provide us with your own suggestions.

Permaculture:

How to grow more vegetables than you ever thought possible on less land than you can imagine, by John Jeavons

Miraculous Abundance: One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers, and Enough Food to Feed the World, by Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer

The New Organic Grower, by Eliot Coleman

The Living Soil Handbook: The No-Till Grower’s Guide to Ecological Market Gardening, by Jesse Frost

Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture, by J Russell Smith

The Soil Foodweb–Soil and Composts As Living Ecosystems, by Elaine Ingham

Coffee:

The Monk of Mokha, by Dave Eggers

Coffee: A Global History, by Jonathan Morris

Black Gold, Film (2006)

Ecological Restoration:

The Unsettling of America, by Wendell Berry

The Tallgrass Restoration Handbook: for Prairies, Savannas and Woodlands, by Stephen Packard and Cornelia F Mutel

Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American Prairie, by Richard Manning

Holistic Management, Third Edition: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment, by Allan Savory