Here is a list of all the LLL readings in one place!

Required Book List

Theses are books you will need to acquire ahead of time. Use Google to find sources:

• Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future, Melissa K. Nelson
• Gaia’s Garden, Toby Hemenway
• Nourishing Traditions, Sally Fallon
• Full Moon Feast, Jessica Prentice
• The Farmer and the Obstetrician, Michel Odent
• Legal Guidelines for Unlicensed Practitioners, Dr. Larry Wilson
• The One Straw Revolution

These are other required readings that you can download here or along the way:

• The Four Elements Rabbi Jill Hammer
• Tadpole’s Tail, Martin Prechtel
• Blood-Moon, Jessica Prentice
• Reclaiming Our Indigenous European Roots, Lyla June
• Wasted Energy on Battles against Appropriation and Racism, Andrea Landry
• Wikipedia on Biodynamic Agriculture
• Wikipedia on Jung
• Wikipedia on Joesph Campbell
• Will Your Carrots Grow If They’re Not in a Row?
• Plant Your Garden -while sitting on the couch watching Mad Men
• Is My Raw Milk Safe?
• It’s all in the Lard Lady
• Teach Your Daughters Wailing
• Trust Love
• How Cervical Dilation Checks Undermine the Imaginal Power of Birthing W0men
• Feel the Fear and Birth Anyway
• Advanced Health Care Directives
• Energy and Permaculture
• Energy Cycling
• Myths and Facts about Solar Energy
• Elimination of Irrigation, Interview with Paul Wheaton
• Farmers Beat Back the Heat with Trees
• Green Welfare Reform
• Cultural Creatives FAQ
• Cultural Diversity in Intentional Communities

Decoloniality Reading List

This is a basic Decolonial Reading List to give you background and context for Decolonial Permaculture. Some are included in the course reading and some are not:

Some are required and some are recommended.

• Grassroots engagement with transition to sustainability, Rafter Ferguson and Sarah Lovell
• Decolonizing Permaculture, Jesse Watson
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack, Peggy McIntosh
• White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
• Wanting to be ndn, Myke Johnson
• The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, George Lipsitz
• Decolonization is not a Metaphor, Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang
• Accomplices Not Allies, www.indigenousaction.org
• Pedagogy of Fear, Leonardo and Porter
• On the Coloniality of Being, Maldonado Torres
• Our Own Liberation, Manulani Meyer
• Oregon Exclusion Timeline

Recommended Reading (in course)

• How do I find the Time?
• Oh No, My Milk Went Sour
• Drinking Unpasteurized Milk
• Steiner’s Agriculture Courses free audio recordings: http://www.rudolfsteineraudio.com/agriculture/agriculture.html
• Grief Gates
• Nervous Breakthrough
• The Gleewoman’s Notes
• Hugelkultur
• Oh, No My Milk Went Sour
• Rotten Egg Test
• Sun Hive
• Queen of the Sun
• Bait Hives
• Lye Calculator
• Soap History
• The Meaning of Easter
• Sustainable Santa
• Letter to Santa
• New Year Notoriety
• One of the most sane and balanced birth blogs: Midwife Thinking
• How Do I talk to My Children About Death part I
• How Do I talk to My Children About Death part II
• Conversation on Invasive Weeds
• How to build a Natural Swimming Pond
• The Story of Stuff
• Raj Patel, Creativist Society
• Cultural Creatives – the book

Recommended Book List (not covered in course)

Use Google to find sources that aren’t linked:

• Connecting to Our Ancestral Past: Healing through Family Constellations, Ceremony, and Ritual, Francesca Mason Boring (Shoshone)
• In an Unspoken Voice, Peter Levine
• When the Body Says No, Gabor Maté
• If Only I Were a Better Mother, Melissa Gayle West
• The Poetry of Self Compassion audio lecture, David Whyte
• Queen of the Sun, video
• The Vegetarian Myth, Lierre Keith
• Soil Food Web: http://www.soilfoodweb.com/
• Sacred Economics, Charles Eisenstein
• The Value of Nothing, Raj Patel
• The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
• Born Free, Unassisted Childbirth in North America