Permaculture , Keyline Design, Holistic Management,Whole Systems Design and Ecological Design

This is a small selection of good books. We have an extensive library at the farm, there are plenty more good books we can recommend;

The Permaculture Designer’s Manual Bill Mollison
Exhaustive text oriented to specific design techniques, landscape profiles, management systems and philosophies of regenerative design. 
The Introduction to Permaculture Bill Mollison
The primer on the beginnings of design science as if humans mattered. 
Permaculture: Pathways Beyond Sustainability David Holmgren. The Co-founder of Permaculture, redefines and expands on permaculture principles and prognosticates about the end of the Oil Age, stimulating. A bit Aussie centric.
Cradle to Cradle William McDonough and Eric Braungart
Aims to revolutionize how we make things and how they can be part of a closed system of biological and technical nutrients in place of our traditional throughput system.
Ecological Design Sim Van Der Ryn and Stuart Cowan
This work is a great treatise on ecological design and whole systems, many good examples of real world situations.
From Eco-Cities to Living Machines John and Nancy Jack Todd
Fantastic visions, plans, and designs for a truly permanent culture. 
Edible Forest Gardens Volume 1 Edible Forest Gardens Volume 2 David Jacke and Eric Toensmeier Two volume set of forest garden design for temperate climates to USDA zone 5. Impressive plant lists, good design specifications and the books are extensively researched
The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander
A Pattern Language Christopher Alexander
Plants For a Future Ken Fern
An exhaustive reference for useful temperate plants for permaculture. The database is even more impressive on the website at www.pfaf.org
The Backyard Orchardist Stella Otto
The Backyard Berry Book Stella Otto
The Grafter’s Handbook RJ Garner Concerning all facets of graft- ing from simple propagation techniques to cotyledon grafting and top-work- ing.
The One Straw Revolution Masanobu Fukuoka
The classic treatise on no till and zen agriculture/forestry/orcharding.
Freshwater Aquaculture William McLarney Awesome book for fresh- water aquaculture. Extensively researched.

Nourishing Traditions Sally Fallon 
Flies in the face of food pyramids, lists, scientific data and all other nonsense.
Healing with Whole Foods Paul Pitchford 
5 Elements approach to human health, yin-yang and food combining, cool, hot, colors, seasons, recipes.
Water For Every Farm P.A. Yeoman's Classic text for large-scale water storage in ponds, swales and catchments, features many water harvesting techniques. This book also features Yeoman’s scale of landscape permanence. This scale is essential for land planning, design, and usage.
The City Forest P.A. Yeoman’s 
Applying Keyine Design to urban spheres
The Challange of Landscape P.A. Yeoman’s 
A must for anyone wanting to understand how to work with water in landscapes
Humanure Handbook Joseph Jenkins
All about poo!
Small is Beautiful E.F. Schumacher Classic 
treatise that outlines economics “as if people mattered” steady state economic theory and community based economics are covered.
Regenerative Enterprise Ethan Roland & Gregory Landua 
Defining the principles of a regenerative enterprise
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms Paul Stamets 
This work includes a short chapter on Permaculture design and how to integrate fungi into one’s designs. 
Mycelium Running Paul Stamet’s 
Using mushrooms to clean up pollution & build soil
Salad Bar Beef Joel Salatin
Backyard Poultry-Naturally Alanna Moore
Free-Range Poultry Katie Thear
Small Scale Poultry Keeping Ray Feltwell
Raising Poultry Successfully Will Graves
Rabbits for Food and Profit Lee Schwanz
For the Love of Ducks Nyiri Murtagh 
All of the above are informative publications from Storey publications.
Holistic Resource Management Alan Savory
Ecological based land management decision making pro- cesses as well as flexible formulas for planned grazing land management.