Resources
Regenerative Agriculture
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Books
The Shepherd’s Life, and English Pastoral: An Inheritance, James RebanksFertility Farming, and Cure Your Own Cattle, and Herdsmanship, and Fertility Pastures, Roger Newman (also read Against the Grain by his son about Roger’s life)
Grass Productivity, Andre Voison
The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs, and Fields of Farmers, and Salad Bar Beef, and Pastured Poultry Profits, and The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer (and many more), Joel Salatin
Bringing it to the Table (and others), Wendell Berry
Dairy Farming: The Beautul Way, Adam Klaus -
Videos
YT Channel: Greg Judy Regenerative RancherYT Playlist: Videos from Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farm 12-part DVD series
Kiss The Ground (movie)
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Farms & Initiatives
Farm & Supplies
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Feed & Seed
Scratch and Peck Feeds (they sell grubs and herbs for poultry!)
Daniel Austin of Green Sprig Ag in Rocky Mount, VA - available by phone only @ 540-420-1639
King’s Agri Seeds (Perennial forage seed mixes)
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Equipment
Premier Fencing (electric fencing)Chicken Range Coop (chicken tractors)
Earthtools (BCS walk-behind tractor & garden tools)
Greg Judy’s Bale Unroller (does not require tractor - also available in TN here)
Rebel Garden Tools (tools include large 7-tine broadfork)
DIY Poultry Coop (YT video using bicycle parts)
Slavic Beauty (small cream separators & butter churns)
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Livestock & Poultry
Briles Farm Brahmans (calves)
Meadow Creek Dairy (heifers, cows, calves)
Good Ground LLC (sheep, cattle, ecological management of grazing lands)
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Natural Beekeeping
HorizontalHive.com (free plans)Keeping Bees with a Smile, Fedor Lazutin - book includes plans
Building
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Structures & Solar
Stroud’s Building Supply (pole barn kits)Blue Ridge Yurts (yurts)
Red Sky Shelters (yomes, an affordable alternative to yurts)
Alt-E Store (solar kits)
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Books
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (part of a series), Christopher AlexanderPlaces of the Soul, Christopher Day
Building a Low Impact Roundhouse, Tony Wrench
Permaculture Design Companion: A Practical Workbook for Integrating People & Places, Jasmine Dale
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Courses
Wild Abundance (tiny house, natural building, women’s basic carpentry, and timber framing courses - also offers an online Tiny House Academy)Mud Dauber School of Natural Building (cob building)
Lammas Ecovillage in Wales (natural building workshops)
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Natural Builders
Simon Dale’s website has a wealth of knowledge
Need help with pasture establishment, cover cropping, grazing management, land clearing, or tree work?
Nutrition
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Pasture-Raised, Grass-Fed
Eating on the Wild Side, by Jo Robinson
Traditional Diets by Weston A Price Foundation - also see their videos
Wise Traditions (magazine) - past journals available here - includes plentiful research
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Raw Milk
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Natural Rearing Diet
The Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm and Stable, and The Complete Herbal Handbook for the Dog and Cat, Juliette de Bairacli LevyNaturalRearing.com - they also sell the herbals which Juliette recommended
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How to Find Farm-Fresh Foods
Wildcrafting & Herbalism
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Field Guides
Peterson Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs, Foster & DukeEdible Wild Plants, Peterson
Weeds of the Northeast, Uva, Neal & DiThomaso
The Forager’s Harvest, Samuel Thayer
Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, Newcomb
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Herbal Guides
The Herbal Medicine-Maker’s Handbook, James GreenCommon Herbs for Natural Health, and Nature’s Children, Juliette de Bairacli Levy
Herbal Healing for Women, and Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs, and Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health, and Herbs for Children's Health, (and many more), Rosemary Gladstar
The Earthwise Herbal Repertory and The Book of Herbal Wisdom, Christopher Wood
Herbal for the Childbearing Year, and New Menopausal Years, Susun Weed
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Other Herbal Medicine
Curing with Cayenne, Sam Biser (with Dr. Christopher Alexander)Thai Herbal Medicine, Jacobsen & Salguero
Healing Lyme, Stephen Buhner (author’s Lyme website is here, author’s website is here, and Susquehanna Apothecary is a trusted source for the protocol)
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Courses
The Science & Art of Herbalism - home study with Rosemary GladstarWild Abundance (foraging & herbal medicine, homesteading, permaculture & gardening, rewilding & survival)
Susquehanna Sustainable Enterprises in Lancaster, PA (foraging, permaculture, gardening, farm design, tincture and mead making, spiritual ecology, ecological design)
Homestead Kitchen
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Fermentation
The Permaculture Book of Ferment & Human Nutrition, Bill MollisonBasic Fermentation, and The Art of Fermentation and Wild Fermentation, Sandor Katz
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Cheesemaking & Yogurt
The Art of Natural Cheesemaking, David Asher24-Hour Yogurt - Use Yogourmet starter and follow the SCD Yoghurt recipe instructions. Here’s a website with more info on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet.
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Courses, Etc.
Farmstead Meatsmith (in-person courses, Meatsmith online membership, 3-part free video series, free “To Kill a Pig Nicely” video, podcast, tools list, knives overview)Fermentation School (online courses in ferments, vinegar, kombucha, cheesemaking, and meat preservation)
White Oak Pastures (occasional workshops, including butchery)
Natural Beekeeping
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Links
Honey Plants - Free downloads
Natural Beekeeping in Horizontal, Extra Deep Hives - Free plans, books, ideas
Practical Beekeeper: Beekeeping Naturally - with Michael Bush, includes the text of his books. Also includes videos, presentations.
Beekeeping Like a Girl - blog, online classes (adults & kids), mentorship. Includes The Story of Bees Game.
Dave Cushman’s website - A broad A-Z archive of articles. Includes a list of notable beekeeper’s websites, such as Pink Pages Archive (George Imirie) and A Beekeeper’s Diary (Allen Dick).
Linda’s Bees - 1300 posts from a Master Beekeeper using Natural methods.
Forums: BeeSource and Beemaster
Magazines: Bee Culture and American Bee Journal
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Books
Keeping Bees with a Smile, Fedor Lazutin - fantastic book includes research, photos, and multiple plans
Keeping Bees in Horizontal Hives: A Complete Guide to Apiculture, George de Layens - 100-year-old method; translated book
Raising Honeybee Queens: An Illustrated Guide to Success, Gilles Fert
The Practical Beekeeper, and other books, Michael Bush
Restoration Agriculture, Mark Shepard - includes a chapter on bees and history of human intervention
Treatment-Free Beekeeping books
Old Books (downloadable, free)
- On Beekeeping & Queen Rearing
- The ABC of Bee Culture, by A.I. Root (1899)
- Advanced Bee Culture, by William Z. Hutchinson (1918) -
Hive Upgrades & Small Cells
Horizontal, Extra Deep Hives
- HorizontalHive.com - Free plansFull Hive Insulation
- Winter Management (article) by William Besbach
- Foam Hive Shells 2.0 (video) by VinoFarm
- Videos by Etienne Tardiff, North of 60 BeekeepingSmall (Natural) Cell Size
- Rationalization Theories on Small Cell Success (article), by Michael Bush, includes studies
- Alternative View of the Initial Spread of Varroa (article), by Dave Cushman
- Articles featuring the Lusbys, who were the first to associate small cell with disease prevention and bee health.
- Resistant Bees - Dee Lusby’s website. Includes a Collection of Scientific Studies.
- How to Measure Your Cells, from Allen Dick
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Treatment-Free Beekeeping
Beekeeping Discoveries, a collection of writings by Kirk Webster
Why I Don’t Consider Using Treatments of Any Kind (article) by Michael Bush
2018 Treatment-Free Bee Conference (videos)
Microbe Research
- Gilliam Archive, Martha Gilliam’s two books of pioneering research.
- Antibiotic Resistant Gut Microbes In Honeybees, a study with Dr. Nancy Moran and her team at Yale Univ.
- Microbe References, a list of critical materials discovered by Laurie & Dean of Golden Rule Honey