CSA Community Supported Agriculture
CSA Resources For Farmers
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) at USDA
Farmers Markets
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Farms by State |
Co-ops
Definitions, principles, history
Co-operative Organizations Worldwide
Co-op history
Leaders worldwide in cooperative movements
Current news about U.S. cooperatives
Links to Cooperatives
Co-op housing links
Whole Settlement
Communes, Cults, and Charisma
Cohousing – A Sustainable Housing Solution
International Co-operative Information Centre
Social entrepreneurship Changemakers.net - many categories-- |
Intentional communities
Intentional Communities on the Web
Fellowship for Intentional Community
Eco Village Information Service
Global Ecovillage Network
Ecovillage directory
Ecovillage links
The School of Living, founded by decentralist philosopher Ralph Borsodi promotes the ideas of decentralist communities and the creation of land trusts for the preservation of open space, agricultural land use and affordable housing
The Farm, Steven Gaskin in Tennesee
Findhorn Foundation An international spiritual community of about 350 people living, studying and working together in the northeast of Scotland - ecological building
Land for People, Not for Profit
local food production Renewable Energy & Biological Waste Systems
Alpha Farm Community
Lost Valley Education Center an emerging eco-village and education center
Arcosanti
Twin Oaks Community East Wind Community Dancing Rabbit
The Federation of Egalitarian Communities - a network of communal groups across North America
Sustainable Communities Network
Rural Green: A new shade of activism, High Country News
The School of Cooperative Individualism |
Skills
Primitive Living Skills Links
Contemporary Living Skills |
Land trusts
Land Trust Alliance Land trust - is it for you
Land Trusts and the 107th Congress
Federal Funding for Local Land Conservation
Resources for Land Trusts and Publications on taxes, organization
Narrow Ridge - Earth literacy Centre - A land trust Community in Tennesse with interests in Environmental programmes, retreats, community, sustainablity and spirituality |
Process
Listening Circles
Co-Intelligence and the Holistic Politics of Community Self-Organization
Exploration of interconnectedness
The Web of the World
Consensus - Nonviolence and Consensus
Consensus: A Mini-Guide |
Books
Books by and about Helen and Scott Nearing
The Encyclopedia of Country Living - Carla Emery
LIVING ON LESS: An Authoritative Guide To Affordable Food, Fuel, And Shelter - edited by John Vivian, Mother Earth News
Original Whole Earth Catalog, Special 30th Anniversary Issue by Stewart Brand (Editor), Peter Warshall (Editor)
Three Acres and Liberty, by Bolton Hall 1922 online
The Country Housewife's Family Companion, Ellis, William. online with a modern introduction by Malcolm Thick. First published in 1750
Farms of Tomorrow Revisted- Community Supported Farms, Farm Supported Communities, The Wisdom Conservancy
The Home Water Supply by Stu Campbell
Wells and Septic Systems by Max and Charlotte Alth
Secrets of Plant Propagation by Lewis Hill
Farmers of Forty Centuries : Or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan by F.H. King
How to Grow More Vegetables : Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops by John Jeavons
Masanobu Fukuoka The Natural Way of Farming The One-Straw Revolution
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual by Bill Mollison
Stolen Harvest : The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply by Vandana Shiva
Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge by Vandana Shiva - A learned, clear and passionately stated objection to the ways in which Western businesses expropriate natural processes and traditional knowledge |
