Books like Food Not Lawns by Heather C. Flores

Apply permaculture principles to any yard or garden, creating a diverse, natural, and productive landscape that requires minimal maintenance.

Volume 2 of Dave Jacke’s Edible Forest Gardens series focuses on practical design and maintenance in temperate climates, featuring a comprehensive plant matrix of hundreds of edible and useful species.

A practical guide to designing and sustaining edible forest gardens in temperate climates, outlining ecological principles and offering detailed plant lists, design strategies, and case studies.

'Future Scenarios' presents an integrated approach to understanding the potential interaction between climate change and peak oil using a scenario planning model.

Integrated Forest Gardening guides readers through creating sustainable perennial agricultural systems—plant guilds, food forests, and mixed animal‑woody polycultures—emphasizing low input, long‑term productivity.

This groundbreaking book by one of North America's most accomplished permaculture designers shows how we can create forest gardens in greenhouses and transform both our homes and our lives. Author Jerome Osentowski provides in-depth information on construction plans for greenhouses large and small, soil-building techniques, the secrets of successful companion planting, the use of microclimates within and around the greenhouse, and more. The Forest Garden Greenhouse also includes details on a revolutionary energy-cycling technology - the "Climate Battery" - that effectively utilizes passive and active solar heat storage to create tropical greenhouse conditions even in cold climates. Whether your goal is to simply extend the growing season by a few weeks or to build a year-round tropical greenhouse, this book's detailed drawings, photos, and case studies of successful greenhouse projects of all scales will fundamentally change the conversation about growing food indoors.--COVER.