Recommended Links: Natural Resources Conservation Service - Soils. These tests are easy to perform! Recommended Books: The following are, in my opinion, mindful of soil biology:
And if you're still looking for something to read that embraces old and new approaches to growing plants: • Self-Reliance (Essay) by Ralph Waldo Emerson • Agriculture Course by Rudolf Steiner • Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture by Joseph Russell Smith • An Agricultural Testament by Albert Howard • The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming by Masanobu Fukuoka • Restoration Agriculture: Real-world Permaculture for Farmers by Mark Shepard • Permaculture One: A Perennial Agriculture for Human Settlements by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren • Sustainable Yogic Agriculture www.yogickheti.org • Farming the Woods: An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food by Ken Mudge and Steve Gabriel • Reverence, Obedience and the Invisible in the Garden: Talks on the Biodynamic French Intensive by Alan Chadwick • Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration by Tao Orion • A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold • Public Research, Private Gain: Corporate Influence Over University Agriculture. Food & Water Watch. www.foodandwaterwatch.org/insight/public-research-private-gain • Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway • Plowman's Folly by Edward H. Faulkner • Bringing Nature Home by Douglas W. Tallamy • Earthdance: Living Systems in Evolution by Elisabet Sahtouris • Thinking Like a Plant: A Living Science for Life by Craig Holdrege • Faith in a Seed by Henry David Thoreau • Permaculture: A Spiritual Approach by Craig Gibsone and Jan Martin Bang • Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture by Ellen F. Davis Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology by David Abram |