The following lists are not all-inclusive, but are meant to give you leads into where to find more information, and not just about permaculture.  Please visit our Finch Frolic Garden Facebook page (you don’t need to be a Facebook member to view it on computers) for lots of information, albums of plant and animal identification, and more, hosted by Miranda Kennedy.  Below I’ve starred the links I use the most:

Blogroll

• Backwards Beekeepers
• Cake Wrecks (Food humor)
• Linda’s Bees
• Permies
• *Vegetariat (Finch Frolic Garden)

Education

• Archi’s Acres: Veteran’s Sustainable Agriculture Training Course (VSAT)
• Geoff Lawton’s online PDC course
• *Permaculture Research Institute of Australia
• *San Diego Sustainable Living Institute (PDC and other courses: a great resource taught by professionals!)
• *San Diego Permaculture Meetup (there are permaculture-related workshops and lectures posted daily, mostly free)

Helpful Permaculture Books

These are books that I have vetted. There are more on the market which I’m sure are wonderful, too, but I haven’t had a chance to read them, or I have found them to not be worth the price of the book.  

• Backyard Beekeeper by Kim Flottum: The Backyard Beekeeper, now in its revised, and expanded third edition, makes these time-honored and complex tradition of beekeeping enjoyable and accessible backyard pastime will appeal to gardeners, crafters, and cooks everywhere.
• The Barefoot Beekeeper by Philip Chandler  Using homemade equipment and natural, chemical free methods of management, this is beekeeping simplified. replica breitling watches
• *Build Your Own Earth Oven by Kiko Denzer (Our own cob oven, Harry Mudd, as built using the guidelines): Earth ovens combine the utility of wood-fired, retained-heat oven with ease and timeless beauty of earthen construction.
• The California Native Landscape: The Homeowner’s Design Guide to Restoring It Beauty and Balance by Greg Rubin and Lucy Warren: A clear and information-rich guide to choosing California native plants written by San Diegans! A MUST read.
• Compost Tea Making by Marc Remillard: the basics of how to make compost specifically for compost teas. 
• *Create an Oasis with Greywater by Art Ludwig: describes how to quickly and easily choose, build, and use a simple greywater system
• Desert or Paradise by Sepp Holzer: he who coined the term hugelkultur, Sepp Holzer is renowned the world over for bringing degraded landscapes back to life using his unique methods of creating water retention basins.

• Farming the Woods: An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate Forests  by Ken Mudge and Steve Gabriel. If you have a forested area on your property, here is a guide on how to grow food and specialty crops within the wooded domain without harming the forest. A carefully written specialty guide.

• Food Not Lawns by H. C. Flores: a  guide to building a sustainable community through growing and sharing food, seeds, and ideas.

• *Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway: my first permaculture guide and the most user-friendly, by the recently late Toby Hemenway. “It’s fun and easy to create a “backyard ecosystem” by assembling communities of plants that can work cooperatively and perform a variety of functions.”
• *Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land by Gary Paul Nabhan: How to harvest water and nutrients, select drought-tolerant plants, and create natural diversity because climatic uncertainty has now become “the new normal.”  
• Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms by Paul Stamets: For the seriously mycologistically inclined:  This book covers in detail state-of-the-art commercial cultivation techniques, liquid culture inoculation methods, mycological landscaping, growing room and lab designs, troubleshooting and more.
• The Hand-Sculpted House by Ianto Evans, et. al. This is a building method so old and so simple that it has been all but forgotten in the rush to synthetics. A cob cottage,cobb, however, might be the ultimate expression of ecological design, a structure so attuned to its surroundings that its creators refer to “an ecstatic house.”
• The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins: This book explains why people of the Western world do not compost their humanure, why we should, and how it can be done safely, AND the entire book is free online in PDF form.
• The Microbe Manual by Carole Ann Rollins (buy poster separately): How to recognize the creatures under your microscope when analyzing compost! With photos! “A 31 page microbe manual accompanies the poster with extremely detailed and scientific explanations of each photo on the poster, with arrows and letter labels to help clarify what you see in each photo and your microscope. This is the only reference guide on the market written by Phd’s about how to add beneficial biology into plant growing systems. Doctor Elaine Ingham is the expert in this field through the world with micro biological laboratories in eight different countries she has been the world leader in the compost tea industry for over 25 years. Since there are no textbooks written on the subject this guide is the only reference the industry has available.”
• *Mycelium Running: how mushrooms can help save the world by Paul Stamets: A MUST read.  A manual for the mycological rescue of the planet with chapters on nutrition, medicinal properties and so much more.
• Natural Beekeeping:Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture by Ross Conrad . Keep bees without using poisons.
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollen: A MUST read! Why we eat the way we do. Pollen traces four meals back to their origins. Very enlightening! 
• The One Straw Revolution: A MUST read. “Call it “Zen and the Art of Farming” or a “Little Green Book,” Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food.”
• Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual by the late Bill Mollison. This tome is for the serious. “Permaculture” (permanent agriculture) is the conscious design and maintenance of economical, agriculturally productive ecosystems that have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.” THE textbook.
• The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience by Toby Heminway: Toby’s last book. “Permaculture is more than just the latest buzzword; it offers positive solutions for many of the environmental and social challenges confronting us. And nowhere are those remedies more needed and desired than in cities.” 
• Rainwater Harvesting for Dry Lands vols. 1 and 2: teaches you how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community.
• Restoration Agriculture: Real-World Permaculture for Farmers by Mark Shepard: explains how we can have all of the benefits of natural, perennial ecosystems and create agricultural systems that imitate nature in form and function while still providing for our food, building, fuel and many other needs – in your own backyard, farm or ranch.
• Regenerative Enterprise: Optimizing for Multi-Capital Abundance by Ethan C. Roland & Gregory Landua (an ebook). Sustainability isn’t enough: we must be regenerative in all of our practices. “We believe that there is a rational way that humans can exist on the planet, one that reverses current trends and actually increases the health of all ecosystems and living beings. “
• The Resilient Farm and Homestead by Ben Falk: a manual for developing durable, beautiful, and highly functional human habitat systems fit to handle an age of rapid transition.
• Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture: A guide for farmers, but an excellent resource for understanding the stacking of functions and what can be done. He covers every aspect of his farming methods, not just how to create a holistic system on the farm itself, but how to make a living from it.

Helpful Magazines

Edible San Diego (they have one for many cities throughout the US)

*Permaculture: Practical Solutions for Self-Reliance (UK)

Local (San Diego area) Permaculture Demonstration Sites (there are more!)

*Finch Frolic Garden (Fallbrook) (This is mine!  See Finch Frolic Garden tab on this blog for information.)

*San Diego Sustainable Living Institute (Valley Center)

*Sky Mountain Institute (Escondido)

Organizations

• Archi’s Acres
• Backwards Beekeepers
• *Fallbrook Food Pantry
• *Fallbrook Land Conservancy
• *Friends of Fallbrook Library
• *North County Permaculture Meetup
• *Rancho Guajome Adobe
• *San Diego Permaculture Meetup
• San Diego Seed Company
• *San Diego Sustainable Living Institute
• *San Diego Urban Homesteader’s Meetup
• San Diego Zoo Safari Park (formerly known as Wild Animal Park)

Other

• Companion Planting Chart
• San Diego County Defensible Space Plant List
• Swale Calculator: determine how large and how far apart to dig your swales, without compromising your hillside!

Permaculture Consultants and Landscapers (San Diego Area)

Diane Kennedy (me!) dianeckennedy@prodigy.net (Consultation)

Miranda Kennedy, mckennedy.birds@gmail.com : Wildlife, native plants and animal biodiversity analysis and recommendation (Consultation)

Hatch Aquatics and Landscaping 760-877-3000 (Consultation and installation)

Josh Robinson, Ecology Artisans (Consultation, design and installation)

Chris Meador, Permasystems, (rain catchment, water tanks, etc.)

Bob Lloyd, PuraVida Aquatics (Chemical-free pond maintenance and swimming pool conversions [into chemical-free swimmable ponds and rain catchment, without changing the structure of your pool!])

Shopping!

I only list businesses with which I’ve done successful business and can recommend; there are many which I haven’t yet patronized which I’m sure are great, but I can’t promote them until I do.

• *Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds (I buy most of my seeds here.  What a catalog!  International organic seeds. )
• *Fungi Perfecti (Paul Stamets’s business.  Explore the spores.)
• Gardens Alive
• *Heirloom Garden Roses (Where I buy all my roses.  I’ve never had one fail).
•  Moosa Creek Native Plants, http://www.moosacreeknursery.com/community-support. (I write the Creekside Chat for their eblog.) Excellent native plant selection in Valley Center; wholesale, so find plants at local nurseries.
• Neel’s Nursery ,(where I buy most of my native plants. Torrey Neel does the shopping, and her selections are excellent. The store is open Sat. – Mon. in Encinitas).
• *Old House Gardens Heirloom Bulbs (where I buy my ornamental bulbs.  Family business.  Excellent!)
• *Peaceful Valley Organic Seeds (where I buy bare root, bulbs and corms at great prices. In CA).
• *Roja’s Succulent Nursery (Fallbrook) (My neighbor.  What a selection!  At very low prices.)
• San Diego Seed Company
• Seeds of Change
• Seed Saver’s Exchange
• *Tree of Life Native Nursery

Videos online

*We have our own YouTube channel:  Finch Frolic Garden has playlists about permaculture with videos from Sepp Holzer (Austrian alps permaculture wonder garden!), Geoff Lawton (informative and informational permaculture from around the world), Bill Mollison (the author of the Permaculture Design Handbook (with David Holmgren) and who coined the term permaculture), Mark Shepard (author of Restoration Agriculture, using treescapes to fix the land), Joel Salatin (diversified farming), Dr. Elaine Ingham (world-renowned soil scientist and compost tea advocate), Curtis Stone and Jean-Martin Fortier (urban intensive farming), Willy Smits (reforesting Indonesia) and Paul Stamets (mushrooms and fungal health), for starters.  Find them here.  These playlists are not all-inclusive; please do your own search on YouTube under these names for more videos by and about them!

*For free short educational videos from Geoff Lawton of the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia, go  to GeoffLawton. com .  THESE ARE GEMS!  LOTS OF PERMACULTURE INSPIRATION IN SHORT BITES.  WATCH THESE!

DVDs:

*Geoff Lawton’s series, either purchase DVDs or digital download from Permaculture Research Institute :

Introduction to Permaculture Design, Urban Permaculture, Establishing a Food Forest, Permaculture Soils,

Harvesting Water – the Permaculture Way.

Podcasts:

Earth Friendly Homeowners These stopped in 2017 but are still available through Apple. There is one interviewing me, but I don’t know if it is accessible or not.

http://www.permaculturevoices.com/,

http://www.permies.com/

http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-05-02/mark-shepherd-on-restoration-agriculture

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• Treehugger

Website

• Annie’s Annuals and Perennials
• Archi’s Acres
• Backwards Beekeepers
• *Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
• Bill Mollison
• Create an Oasis with Greywater
• Food Not Lawns
• Gardens Alive
• *Heirloom Garden Roses
• *Las Pilitas Native Nursery  (A fantastic website for Southern California natives).
• Linda’s Bees
• Mycelium Running: how mushrooms can help save the world
• *Old House Gardens Heirloom Bulbs (Where I buy all my ornamental bulbs.  Visit their site!)
• *Peaceful Valley Organics (In California.  Excellent source for bare roots and edible bulbs at great prices).
• Rainwater Harvesting for Dry Lands vols. 1 and 2
• San Diego Permaculture Meetup
• San Diego Seed Company
• *San Diego Sustainable Living Institute
• Seed Savers Exchange
• The Barefoot Beekeeper
• The One Straw Revolution
• USDA Alternative Farming Systems Information Center
• Veteran’s Sustainable Agriculture Training Course (VSAT)