![]() | Agriculture Course: The Birth of the Biodynamic Method by Rudolf Steiner
Buy new: £12.95 / Used from: £7.70 The birth of the biodynamic way, given in a series of 8 lectures in 1924 by Rudolf Steiner. Inspiring and challenging, a life time's work ahead of you if you want to take this book seriously.
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![]() | Gardening for Life: The Biodynamic Way (Art & science series) by Maria Thun
Buy new: £9.48 / Used from: £7.47 Maria Thun's particular angle, researching deeply into cosmic effect on plant growth and pest control. .
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![]() | The Biodynamic Sowing and Planting Calendar 2008 by Maria Thun
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.01 And you'll need one of these. The Thuns' yearly cosmic sowing calendar, giving precise times for sowing crops.
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![]() | Organic Vegetable Production: A Complete Guide
Buy new: £14.27 / Used from: £20.85 This is just the bare bone basics for market gardeners and large scale growers. All those when's, what's and how's answered in a concise and well presented way. Helped me out of countless ambiguities!
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![]() | Growing Green: Organic Techniques for a Sustainable Future by Jenny Hall
Buy new: £14.49 A very useful book from very experienced growers who use stockless vegan principles. I found it particularly useful regarding fertility building rotations with green manures.
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![]() | The New Organic Grower: Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (A gardener's supply book) by Eliot Coleman
Buy new: £11.70 / Used from: £9.84 This is THE craftsman vegetable growers guide. Elliot's in depth sharing of his experience lead one into a sense of how complete a commercial organic garden system can become.
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![]() | Valuable Vegetables: Growing for Pleasure and Profit by Mandy Pullen
Buy new: £16.10 Very useful example of a years sowing plan and a wealth of useful info from a British organic grower.
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![]() | The Vegetable Gardener's Bible by Ed Smith
Buy used from: £8.75 A little more orientated towards kitchen gardening but loads of really useful info on requirements for all vegetable crops and beautiful photo's from an American master gardener's project.
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![]() | The Apple Grower: A Guide for the Organic Orchardist (Chelsea Green's Master Grower Gardening Series) by Michael Phillips
Buy new: £19.07 / Used from: £24.71 Nice beard! Nice beret! Just essential reading for all those about to plant or restore an orchard.
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![]() | Gardening for the Future of the Earth by Howard-Yana Shapiro
Buy used from: £10.05 Full of inspiring people who've developed flourishing inspiring garden systems. Not a how-to type book so much as a call to discover our own unique angle on how we work with the Earth.
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![]() | Seed to Seed: Seed Saving Techniques for the Vegetable Gardener by Suzanne Ashworth
Buy used from: £13.01 This is such a useful book if you're wise enough to try and save your own seed. About every vegetable and seed crop imaginable is in here.
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![]() | Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits and Vegetables by Mike Bubel
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £8.89 And how do you store your vegetables? Look no further, ranging from home scale to larger (not quite commercial but would suit a small market garden).
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![]() | Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture by Ross Conrad
Buy new: £14.38 / Used from: £17.01 You'll probably want some bees too, they'll do much of your pollination and produce a little honey too, and you get to preserve a species that's struggling. I found this a good start as a novice.
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![]() | Bees: Nine Lectures on the Nature of Bees by Rudolf Steiner
Buy new: £9.38 / Used from: £8.91 Steiner had some pretty inspiring insights to share about bees. Takes one from the intimacy of the hive to the widest expanses of the cosmos and shows how the processes are entirely inter-connected.
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![]() | Bees and Honey, from Flower to Jar by Michael Weiler
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £4.40 As does Mr. Weiler - a vastly experienced biodynamic beekeeper from Germany. A beautiful insight into the bee colony and it's relationship to a harmonious landscape.
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![]() | The Rodale Book of Composting by Deborah. L Martin
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £2.99 I found this a very good starting point for creating compost which you'll need - probably lots! This book isn't biodynamic, but the basic composting techniques are illustrated, a good grounding.
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![]() | The Nature of Substance: Spirit and Matter by Rudolf Hauschka
Buy used from: £15.50 Can we reconcile science with subjective experience of matter? Brings creative imagination together with materialistic science & reveals the divine nature of matter. May even inform your gardening!
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![]() | Elements of the Nature and Properties of Soils by Nyle C. Brady Emeritus Professor
Buy used from: £34.99 Useful for real soil officianado's and those of us with an occasional question or two. A dense, deep and well presented text book.
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![]() | The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in Direct Perception of Nature by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Buy new: £8.39 / Used from: £6.70 The work of a poet, a seer and a scientist (all in one guy). Encourages us to discover our faculty for heart centred perception where we can learn from plants themselves, their medicinal properties.
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![]() | Botany for Gardeners by Brian Capon
Buy new: £8.24 / Used from: £6.40 A very good overview, enough detail without getting over technical.
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![]() | Principles of Horticulture by C R Adams BSc (Agric) Hons MIHort Dip Applied Ed
Buy new: £15.47 / Used from: £11.99 As above.
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![]() | Sensitive Chaos: Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air by Theodore Schwenk
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £11.20 Awesome. Shows how dynamic life principles underlie all living things and how these shaping forces are revealed in the subtle movements of water, the carrier of life.
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![]() | The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto
Buy new: £4.66 / Used from: £2.68 And this chap shows how our thoughts actually affect matter through crystallising water that has had different thoughts projected on it. Wow!
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![]() | Extraordinary Plant Qualities for Biodynamics by Jochen Bockemuhl
Buy new: £12.74 / Used from: £6.99 Really wonderful extension of understanding of the biodynamic preparations; challenging to read at points but who said this stuff is gonna be easy! Beautifully presented.
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![]() | Weather & Cosmos by Dennis Klocek
The title says it all really. Shows the formative principles of weather systems and their localised reflections and how they relate to wider cosmic events.
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