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What I really liked:
- The Backyard Forest Garden e-book
- Agroforestry
- Restoration Agriculture: Designing Your Perennial Farm presentation from Permaculture Voices by Mark Shepard
- Permaculture Thorns, A Book About Trying to Build Permaculture Community, by Paul Wheaton.
- Plus 2 books by Nicole Sauce.
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Check out Paul Wheaton’s book – Permaculture Thorns, which has interesting and amusing stories of people trying to form intentional community. People think that they have the same vision and goals – until they live together and decisions on money and conflict arise. They quickly find out that absolute consensus (and even democracy) don’t work in an intentional community. If you are thinking of forming an intentional community (including that libertarian utopia) then you need to read this book. Just $15.
The top issues faced by folks trying to create an intentional community: 1) money, 2) clear written agreements, 3) conflict resolution.
Another book that has helped me wrap my head around intentional community:
Recommendations and Resources:
All of these things we have used and recommend.
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Live Not By Lies – by Rod Dreher.
This book rocked my world in 2020 and 2021, especially Section 2 where the Eastern European Christians who did not go along with the Bolsheviks were pushed to9 the margins of society, and Section 3 about how Christians survived the gulag.
Holistic Homesteading by Roxanne Ahern:
Toolbox for Sustainable City Living – Compost, rain harvesting, worms, tree crops and food forests, handling waste water, solar power, passive solar, and more.
Even though this is for city sustainable living, it has a lot of cool projects that work on your homestead too.
Farm Innovators 4250 Incubator. This is the incubator that I use.
Surviving the Future by David Fleming and Shaun Chamberlin.
The title of this book inspired Thriving the Future Podcast.
Surviving the Future is a more digestible version of Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It, a thick book which deep dives culture, community, debt, growth, de-growth, and assumes our problems can be handled in a Lean manner, all local. Highly recommended, if you are into localism, community, and remarkable Hope, despite an uncertain future.
Bitcoin and Beef by Tristan Scott (from Ep. 77 – Why Decentralization Matters):
Cotton Crochet Market Bags – Washable Crochet Grocery Bags – Reusable Crochet Produce Shopping Bags
I use these for storing veggies in the basement, hanging from nails on the rafters.
Wildcrafting Soda and Brews:
The Wildcrafting Brewer: Creating Unique Drinks and Boozy Concoctions from Nature’s Ingredients:
How to Make Vinegar:
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. This explains why we have so much divide in this country. It’s been that way since the beginning and these seven cultures took their values West with them.
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