Books

Recommended Reading

Books we like and recommend

Books and SATX Member book reviews!

  •     Texas Organic Vegetable Gardening, Howard Garret and Malcolm Beck
  •     Great Garden Companions, Sally Cunningham
  •     Square Foot Gardening, Mel Bartholomew (some info not suited for our area, but I like the spacing             guides.)
  •     How to Grow More Vegetables, John Jeavons
  •     Gaia’s Garden, Toby Hemenway
  •     Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual, Bill Mollison
  •     Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability, David Holmgren
  •     Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond (Vol. 2), Brad Lancaster
  •     Food Not Lawns, Heather Flores
  •     Herbs for Texas, Howard Garret and Odena Brannam
  •     The Secret Life of Compost, Malcolm Beck
  •     Lessons in Nature, Malcolm Beck
  •     One Straw Revolution, Masanobu Fukuoka
  •     Seed to Seed, Suzanne Ashworth
  •     Preserving Nature’s Bounty, Frances Bissell
  •     Native Texas Plants, Sally Wasowski
  •     Edible and Useful Plants of Texas and the Southwest, Delena Tull
  •     Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of the Southwest* by Robert Vines
  •     People and Permaculture: Caring and Designing for Ourselves, Each Other, and the Planet by Looby         Mcnamara