Resources & Links
Websites of Our Teachers & Past Teachers
Tracy Theriot ~ Tactile Interiors
K.Ruby ~ Sparky Beegirl rogueruby.com
Dori Midnight ~ Dorilandia
Philippe Lewis ~ Edible Love
Brittany Nickerson ~ Thyme Herbals
Laura Allen ~ Greywater Guerillas
Erik Bjorkquist ~ Brute Force Engineering
Bay Area Souce (Heidi Cuningham) ~ sourcehere.wordpress.com.
Heather Haxo Phillips ~ www.rawbayarea.com.
Stewart Port ~ www.tincanbanjo.com & www.stewartportguitars.com
Sasha Rabin ~ villasobrante.blogspot.com/
Christopher Schein~ www.wildheartgardens.com/
Lee Sonko ~ http://lee.org
Great Projects & Blogs to inspire you
The Nowtopian ~ The revolution is now blog
Ghost Town Farm, ~ Novella Carpenter's Urban Farm Blog
City Slicker Farms ~ West Oakland Food Project
Plant SF ~ Taking up the sidewalks and greening San Francisco
Spiral Gardens ~ Community Food Security Project
Transition Town
City Repair
Journey To Forever
Greywater
Greywater
Guerillas
Dam Nation ~ Dispatches from the Water Underground, a book
Oasis Design
Localism & Sustainability
Urban Alliance for Sustainability
The Localization Network
Daily Acts
Bay Localize
Canning & Food Preservation
Ball Blue Book of Preserving
Small Batch Preserving by Ellie Topp & Margaret Howard
Presrving Food Without Freezing or Canning by The Gardeners & Farmers of Terre Vivante
www.preservefood.com
USDA Official Food Safety & Preservation Site
Beekeeping
The Hive and the Honey Bee - Dadant & Sons
Natural Beekeeping - Arthur Ross Conrad
The Shamanic Way of the Bee - Simon Buxton
Small Scale Beekeeping
Top Bar Hive Links
Top Bar Hive Info
Beesource ~Online beekeeper community
Michael Bush ~ Great articles and information for top bar and natural beekeeping
Pictures ~ lots of pix of bee anatomy and other cool stuff
Equipment & Supplies: Mann Lake Ltd ~ Dadant ~ BeeKind (Sebastopol) ~ Brushy Mountain Bee Supplies
Ruby's Colony Collase Disorder Article
Pollination Ecology
The Forgotton Pollinators; Gary Nabham & Stephen Buchmann
The Natural History of Pollination; Michael Proctor, Peter Yeo & Andrew Lack
Pollination Home Page
Plant Pollinator Database (by flower) Plant Pollinator database (by species)
Vernal Pools ~ Research by Robbin Thorp Native Bee Specialist
Fremontia Vol 30 Isuues 3-4 ~ Research by Gordon Frankie and other on Native Pollinators
Urban Bee Gardens ~ Gordon Frankie's Urban Bee Site
Bee Pollinators in Your Garden ~ Great Native Bee Publication
Alternative Energy/Fuel
Biofuel Oasis
Journey to Forever
Natural Building
The Cob Builders Handbook: You Can Hand-Sculpt Your Own Home by Becky Bee
The Natural House: A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Efficient, Environmental Homes by Daniel Chiras
The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage by Ianto Evans
Clay Culture: Plasters, Paints and Preservation by Carol Crews
The Natural Paint Book by Lynn Edwards and Julia Lawsell
Using Natural Finishes by Adam Weisman and Katy Bryce
Gardening & Plants
Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway
Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets
How to Grow More Vegetables by John Jeavons
Seed to Seed by Suzanne Ashworth
Guerrilla Gardening in the UK
Victory Garden Foundation ~ An east bay neighbiorhood food project
Native Seed Search ~Biodiversity Seed Saving Organization of the Southwest
Seed Savers Exchange ~ Amazing Heirloom Seed Organization
Bountiful Gardens ) Education and seed catalog
Ronnigers Potatoes ~ Potato Seed
Filaree Farms ~ Organic Garlic Seed
California Native Plant Society
Ruby's Sheet Mulch Recipe
Animal Husbandry
Barnyard In Your Backyard by Gail Damerow
Barron's The New Goat Handbook
Natural Goat Care by Pat Coleby
Organic Feed
Fias Co Farm & Fias Co Farm Book List~ Lots of Goat Information
Saanendoah ~ Articles on goat disease & health
Oberhasli Goat Site
Raising Meat Rabbits Primer
Bunny Genetics
Bunny Recipes
Backyard Chickens
More On Backyard Chickens
Food, Cooking & Nutrition
The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved by Sandor Katz
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollen
Noursigin Traditions Cookbook by Sally Fallon
The Body Ecology Diet by Donna Gates
Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasueres & Politics of Local Food by Gary Nabhan
Slow Food usa
Wise Traditions ~The Weston Price Foundation
Herbs, Medicine, Flower Essences
Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West by Michael Moore
Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West by Michael Moore
Stars of the Meadow by David Dalton (about flower essences)
Healing with the Herbs of Life by Leslie Tierra
Common Herbs for Natural Health, by Juliette de Bairacli Levy
Sage Mountain ~ online resources and books of Rosemary Gladstar
The Southwest School of Botanical Medicine: Micheal Moore
Cheese & Yogurt
Home Cheesemaking by Ricki Carroll
Gqats Produce Too!
Fankhouser’s Cheese Page
Fias Co Farm Cheese Page ~ Focus on Goat Cheeses
New England Cheese Supply
The Cheesemaker:
Lacto-Fermenting
Wild Fermentation ~ and the book of the same name by Sandor Katz
Fermented Treasures ~ mesophilic yogurt cultures, kefir grains & other cultures
Lacto-Fermented Sodas ~ Article
Alcohol Fermenting
The Compleat Meadmaker by Ken Schramm ~ best book for understanding ingredients & processes
Making Wild Wines & Meads by Pattie Vargas and Rich Gulling - best book for recipe ideas
The Complete Joy iof Homebrewing by Charlie Papazian
Fermenting Revolution by Christopher Mark O'Brian
Designing Great Beers by Ray Daniels
Sacred & Healing Beers by Stephen Harrod Buhner
The Alaskan Bootleggers Bible by Leon W Kanie
Honeywine.com ~ Best website for purchasing mead
Oak Barrel Winecraft, 1443 San Pablo ~ Brewing supplies
Chloramine & Cjloramine Removal for Fermenting
Gotmead .com ~Online meadmaking community
Other Places to Learn
Soapmaking The Nova Studio
Sewing Stonemountain & Daughter
Crafts Rock Paper Scissor Collective
Botany and Plant Field Study The Jepson Herbarium
Mushroom study, events, walks SFMycological Society
General Homesteading
Five Acres and Independance by M.G.Kains
The Urban Homestead by Kelly Coyne & Eric Knutzen
Toolbox for Sustainable City Living by Scott Kellogg & Stacy Pettigrew
Films
King Corn
The Power of Community ~ About Cuba's move toward urban sustainability
The Real Dirt on Farmer John