My Favorite Books

I like reading, its my favorite form of learning. Reading is like slow drip knowledge vs. talking with other people or watching videos which can be a bit much at times. I see learning and soaking in knowledge as a funnel, and only so much drips down to long term memory. If you take on too much at once it just sloshes over the sides. I like reading all kinds of different stuff then finding the least common denominators and connecting the dots. I have original ideas of my own but mostly I connect the dots between seemingly unrelated concepts, through reading!

Farming

1) Scripture, Culture, and Agruculture - Ellen F Davis
2) You Can Farm - Joel Salatin
3) An Agricultural Testament - Sir Albert Howard
4) One Straw Revolution - Masanobu Fuokuka
5) Farming The Woods - Gabriel & Mudge
6) Eliot Coleman - The New Organic Grower
7) The Lean Farmer - Ben Hartman
8) Introduction to Permaculture - Bill Mollison
9) The Barefoot Farmer - Jeff Poppen

Other

The Bible, Living Buddha Living Christ (Hanh), Gaia (Lovelock), The Eternal Golden Braid (Hofstadter), Biocentrism (Lanza), Creature from Jekyll Island (Griffin), Sacred Economics (Eisenstein), The China Study (Campbell), Manufacturing Consent (Chomsky), Five Marks of a Man (Tome), The Unsettling of America (Berry), The Grand Design (Hawking), Das Kapital (Marx), Outliers (Gladwell), The Source Field Investigations (Wilcock), Love Wins (Bell), Atlas Shrugged (Rand), 1984 (Orwell), War is a Racket (Butler), Confessions of an Economic Hitman (Perkins).

There are more but that is a good start.

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Life In The Middle

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