resources
What We
Recommend
books
Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway
Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist by Michael Judd
Lee Reich books: Uncommon Fruit for Every Garden, Landscaping With Fruit, Weedless Gardening
The Permaculture Market Garden by Zach Loeks
Creating a Forest Garden by Martin Crawford
Paradise Lot by Eric Toensmeier with Jonathan Bates
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster
Mushroom Cultivation by Travis Lynch
Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation by Tradd Cotter
Radical Mycology by Peter McCoy
Farming the Woods by Ken Mudge and Steve Gabriel
Perennial Vegetables by Eric Toensmeier
How to Grow More Vegetables by John Jeavons
The Permaculture City by Toby Hemenway
websites
nurseries
Stark Bro’s Nursery - A nursery right here in Missouri. We love the plants they sell in their EZ Start pots.
Burnt Ridge - Probably the most affordable mail order nursery. They are usually our go-to for trees although they certainly don’t carry everything we like.
Dig Annuals & Perennials - St. Louis, check out Dig! Great people offering quality plants.
Raintree Nursery - Raintree Nursery provides exotic and heritage edible woody plants to growers all over the US - and they've been at it since 1973! Raintree services all zones and regions in the US with quality plant material. Great all around selection. We love their Youtube channel for growing support.
One Green World - An industry standard. They have a lot of unique varieties.
Fedco Trees - Based in Maine, they have a huge apple selection and their orchard tools are great. Shop for things like pruners and orchard irrigation with Fedco.
Edible Acres Nursery - Specializing in “permaculture” plants. A good source for herbaceous perennials like sea kale, turkish rocket and sweet cicely.
Twisted Tree Nursery - Another all around “premie” nursery
Brambleberry Nursery - They are outside Bloomington, IN and DO NOT ship. However, if you can make the 4 hour drive they have a great selection of proven winners. Plus you get to see their sweet straw bale house if you visit.
Edible Landscaping Nursery - Mad props to these folks in VA. They starting specializing in edible landscaping crops way back when. Their availability can be poor but what they have comes highly recommended. They sell all their stuff in pots.
Richters Herbs - An amazing selection of herbs and perennials. They even sell really affordable “flats” of 12 or 90 for doing big plantings
Indiana Berry Company - Affordable and tremendous selection on all kinds of berries. They give really nice descriptions in their catalog
Prairie Nursery - Selling native plugs and seeds. They carry some hard to find nitrogen fixers like native clover, dalea candida, as well as wild senna.
England’s Orchard and Nursery - Cliff England is our region’s expert on Jujubes and Persimmons.
Hidden Springs Nursery - A few “no frills” nursery that ships really nice “no spray” fruit trees and shrubs.
Oikos Tree Crops - All kinds of unique “wild” seedling varieties of trees, shrubs and perennials.
Food Forest Farm - Unique perennial vegetables from the most prolific researchers of perennial vegetable crops.
Kelly Winterton’s Perennial Onions - Breeder/grower of market sized perennial onions. Limited quantities available, highly recommended.
Forrest Keeling - go-to nursery for pawpaws, persimmons, chestnuts, oecans, hazelnuts and more!
seed companies
Wild Garden Seeds - highest diversity of salad greens seeds in the US, bred and grown on farm, ensuring highest grade seed (tip, buy seed from breeder/growers, they sell the highest grade seeds through their own companies and the lowest grade through broker seed companies).
Ann Arbor Seed Company - breeder/grower producing the highest quality seed in the midwest. Small-scale permaculture seed farm.
Johnny’s Seeds - An awesome selection of veggies and perennials.
High Mowing - ALL ORGANIC SEEDS.
Baker Creek - All kind of fun heirloom seeds. A Missouri company! They have the best selection of alpine strawberry seeds.
Richters Herbs - An amazing selection of uncommon herbs and perennials.
mushrooms
These are all small-scale and/or family-run businesses worth supporting!
Field and Forest - Wisconsin-based supplier (spawn, tools, texts etc.) with abundant info resources available as well. Very reliable and friendly folks.
Fungi Perfecti - Oregon-based, this is Paul Stamets’ family company; you can get more “advanced” supplies here, esp. if you’re interested in propagating your own spawn.
Mushroom Mountain - South Carolina-based; good prices on starter supplies; they also sell dried mushrooms, extracts, etc.