The Organic Lawn Care Manual: A Natural, Low-Maintenance System for a Beautiful, Safe Lawn
This is the Organic Lawn Care Bible. Organic Bob endorses almost all of it, but this does NOT replace the need for a free lawn assessment.
Common Backyard Weeds of the Upper Midwest
Get to know your weeds, what they like, and what they don’t like.
Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community
Even better than an organic lawn, is a NON-lawn. Here’s why and how.
Edible Forest Gardens
Once you’ve learned all about the principles of Permaculture, this book gives you the details you need to implement in the Midwest. It’s an invaluable resource for starting an Edible Forest Garden in Minnesota.
Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual
This is the Permaculture Bible. Beware, it will change the way you see the world, and so change your life!
Worms Eat My Garbage
How to set up and maintain a worm composting system: compost food waste, produce fertilizer for houseplants and garden, and educate your kids and family. This book is a worm composting classic which pretty much started it all.
The Worm Farmer’s Handbook
The latest book from Rhonda Sherman who leads the annual US Composting Council convention at NCSU.
Vermiculture Technology
This is the Worm Composting Bible. It’s everything you need to know, and then some.
The Hidden Half of Nature
This is a great book for people who like popular science writing; it’s a holistic look at the microbes that make up healthy soil and healthy humans!
All New Square Foot Gardening
Produce a lot of veggies in a small space with this simple gardening method.
Storm Lake
Pulitzer-winning author tells the story of a small-town newspaper going against big oil, industrial agriculture and corrupt government in an almost mythical town in middle America, where family values, immigration and loving your neighbor not only coexist, but thrive together.