Permaculture Plants- What do you have which you can spilt/ share (eastern MA)

[Steven Landau]

This discussion is going on here.

https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/easternmapermaculture

[David Eggleton]

Some of those books are expensive. In case you must save up to buy, here are two (among many) informative Web sites:

http://permacultureactivist.net/index.html (the permaculture magazine for North America)

http://www.earthactionmentor.org/ (a permaculture education & networking startup)

[Jen Hartley]

.....and don't forget the library. (Or interlibrary loan. Or requesting that your library purchase them.)
(says the reference librarian with a smile)
(adding that some of these you may really want to consider buying anyway as reference books for your personal library, but no harm in previewing first.)

[Alex]

That was actually the first place I looked :)

They had a few (and a couple that were on hold for 4 people!), but I didn't have any sense about which would interest me. The list included some of the ones you listed, I believe.

Jen Hartley said:

.....and don't forget the library. (Or interlibrary loan. Or requesting that your library purchase them.)
(says the reference librarian with a smile)

[Jen Hartley]

I think a great start would be Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway, if you're just starting to learn about permaculture. It's also more affordable since it's much shorter. The others mentioned (Intro. to Permaculture, Edible Forest Gardens) are wonderful and important tomes, but they are Tomes. I'm not trying to say shorter is better, just that it might be an easier introduction. (Although I am a huge fan of Edible Forest Gardens and think it is well worth the investment.)

[Steven Landau]

I spent the 100$ on Edible forest garden set. It kept my interest for a hundred hours reading the textbook details. Very inexpensive considering the $/hr.

[Elizabeth Marcus]

I agree that Gaia's Garden is the place to start. I've just been using the Edible Forest Garden Volumes available at my library ... mostly Volume 2.

Jen Hartley said:

I think a great start would be Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway, if you're just starting to learn about permaculture. It's also more affordable since it's much shorter. The others mentioned (Intro. to Permaculture, Edible Forest Gardens) are wonderful and important tomes, but they are Tomes. I'm not trying to say shorter is better, just that it might be an easier introduction. (Although I am a huge fan of Edible Forest Gardens and think it is well worth the investment.)

[Glenn Saunders]

This is a followup to my apple grafting project in the spring.

I now have a handful of grafted dwarf apple rootstocks and I just don't have the space to put them in my yard so I'm offering these to Transition, MA members on a first-come first-serve basis.

Not all of the grafts 'took' but with those that didn't, they just budded out from the rootstock and you can certainly graft onto them at any future date.

PM me if you want one.

Now is the time to get them out of containers and into the ground.