resources


Recommendations

books

  • Paradise Lot by Eric Toensmeier with Jonathan Bates

  • Trees of Power by Akiva Silver

  • Farming the Woods by Ken Mudge and Steve Gabriel

  • Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway

  • Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist by Michael Judd

  • Lee Reich books: Uncommon Fruit for Every Garden, Landscaping With Fruit, Weedless Gardening

  • The Permaculture Market Garden by Zach Loeks

  • Creating a Forest Garden by Martin Crawford

  • Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster

  • Mushroom Cultivation by Travis Lynch

  • Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation by Tradd Cotter

  • Radical Mycology by Peter McCoy

  • Perennial Vegetables by Eric Toensmeier

  • How to Grow More Vegetables by John Jeavons

  • The Permaculture City by Toby Hemenway

nurseries

Edible Acres Nursery - Specializing in “permaculture” plants.  A good source for herbaceous perennials like sea kale, turkish rocket and sweet cicely.

Twisted Tree Nursery - Amazing all around nursery for unique fruits and nuts

Food Forest Farm - Unique perennial vegetables from the most prolific researchers of perennial vegetable crops.

Burnt Ridge - Probably the most affordable mail order nursery. They are usually our go-to for trees although they certainly don’t carry everything we like.

Raintree Nursery - Raintree Nursery provides exotic and heritage edible woody plants to growers all over the US - and they've been at it since 1973! Raintree services all zones and regions in the US with quality plant material. Great all around selection. We love their Youtube channel for growing support.

One Green World - An industry standard. They have a lot of unique varieties.  

Fedco Trees - Based in Maine, they have a huge apple selection and their orchard tools are great. Shop for things like pruners and orchard irrigation with Fedco.

Edible Landscaping Nursery - Mad props to these folks in VA.  They starting specializing in edible landscaping crops way back when.  Their availability can be poor but what they have comes highly recommended.  They sell all their stuff in pots.

Richters Herbs - An amazing selection of herbs and perennials.  They even sell really affordable “flats” of 12 or 90 for doing big plantings

Indiana Berry Company - Affordable and tremendous selection on all kinds of berries. They give really nice descriptions in their catalog

Prairie Nursery - Selling native plugs and seeds. They carry some hard to find nitrogen fixers like native clover, dalea candida, as well as wild senna.

seed companies

Experimental Farm Network - An emerging catalog of annuals and perennials.

Johnny’s Seeds - An awesome selection of veggies and perennials.  

Fedco Seeds- Great selections for the Northeast

High Mowing - ALL ORGANIC SEEDS.

Baker Creek - All kind of fun heirloom seeds.  A Missouri company! They have the best selection of alpine strawberry seeds.

Richters Herbs - An amazing selection of uncommon herbs and perennials.




raised beds

mushrooms

These are all small-scale and/or family-run businesses worth supporting!

Field and Forest - Wisconsin-based supplier (spawn, tools, texts etc.) with abundant info resources available as well. Very reliable and friendly folks.

Fungi Perfecti - Oregon-based, this is Paul Stamets’ family company; you can get more “advanced” supplies here, esp. if you’re interested in propagating your own spawn.

Mushroom Mountain - South Carolina-based; good prices on starter supplies; they also sell dried mushrooms, extracts, etc.