,
by Charles G. Ramsey/Harold R. Sleeper. Wiley & Sons.
Build Your Own Stone House, Using the easy, slipform method,
by Karl & Sue Schwenke. Garden Way.
Building Construction Illustrated, by Francis Ching, Van
Nostrand Reinhold Co.
The $50 and Up Underground House Book, How to Design and
Build Underground, by Mike Oehler. Mole Publishing, PO Box 270, Naples,
Idaho 83847.
From the Ground Up, by John Cole/Charles Wing. Atlantic
Monthly Press/Little, Brown and Co..
Handmade Houses, A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art, by Art
Boericke/Barry Shapiro. Scrimshaw Press. Still an
inspiration! We poured over this book probably more than any.
How to Build a Low-Cost House of Stone, by Lewis &
Sharon Watson. Stonehouse Publications.
www.buildwithstone.com
Low Cost, Energy-Efficient Shelter, For the Owner and Builder,
by Eugene Eccli. Rodale Press.
Other Homes and Garbage, Designs for self-sufficient living, by
Leckie, Masters, Whitehouse, Young.
The Passive Solar Energy Book, by Edward Mazria, Rodale
Press.
The Owner Built Homestead, by Barbara and Ken Kern.
Scribner.
The Solar Home Book; Heating, by Bruce
Anderson/Michael Riordan. Rodale Press, Cheshire Books.
The Stonebuilder’s Primer, by Charles Long, Firefly
Books.
The Timber Framing Book, by Stewart Elliott/Eugenie
Wallas. Housesmiths Press.
Underground Designs, by Malcolm Wells. Malcolm Wells.
Underground Plans Book-1, 8 Large-scale plans and
details you can use in designing a house for your site, by Malcolm Wells/Sam
Glenn-Wells. Malcolm Wells.
and all the other great books by
Malcolm Wells. www.malcolmwells.com
Underground Houses,
The Sauna, and other
by Rob Roy. www.cordwoodmasonry.com
Living
Build It Better Yourself, by the editors of Organic
Gardening and Farming. Rodale Press, 1977.
Compost Toilets, A guide for owner-builders, National
Center for Appropriate Technology, PO Box 3838, Butte, Montana. www.ncat.org/.
The Contrary Farmer, by Gene Logsdon. Chelsea Green
Publishing, 1995.
Heaven's Flame Solar Cooker, by Joseph Radabaugh. Joseph
Radabaugh, 1990.
Herbal Handbook for Farm and Stable, by Juliette de
Bairacli Levy. Rodale Press, 1976.
The Homesteader's Handbook to Raising Small Livestock, by
Jerome D. Belanger. Rodale Press, 1974.
The Maple Sugar Book, by Helen & Scott Nearing.
Schocken Books, 1970.
Mrs. Restino's Country Kitchen, by Susan Restino. Quick
Fox 1976.
A Pantry Full of Sunshine,
(newly updated and reprinted) by Larisa Walk and Bob Dahse.
Seldom Scene Productions, 30319 Wiscoy Ridge Rd, Winona MN 55987, $12.50 ppd. [wonderful booklet on
solar drying, steam canning, juicing, root cellaring].
www.geopathfinder.com.
Root Cellaring, by Nancy Bubel.
Small Time Operator, by Bernard Kamoroff. Bell Spring
Publishing.
Home
Made Power
Home Power magazine, POB 520, Ashland, Oregon 97520,
916-475. www.homepower.com
Electron Connection, POB 203, Hornbrook, California
96044, 800-945-7587.
Backwoods Solar Electric Systems, 1395 Rolling Thumder
Ridge, Sandpoint, Idaho 83864,
208-263-4290,
www.backwoodssolar.com [mail order supplier].
Midwest Renewable Energy Association (and Fair), 7558
Deer Rd, Custer, Wisconsin 54423, 715-592-6595, mreainfo@wi-net.com,
www.the-mrea.org.
People’s Power Primer, Renewable Energy for the Technically
Timid, by Bob Dahse, Seldom Scene Productions, 30319 Wiscoy Ridge Rd, Winona
MN 55987, 72 pgs, $11.00 ppd.
www.geopathfinder.com
Gardening
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Garden page for a listing
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