General Off The Grid Living
Path to Freedom, "living a self-sufficient lifestyle in an urban setting."
In The Wake, "a collective manual-in-progress for outliving civilization." Both this and the next have categories: food, shelter, survival, and so on, with reader-contributed articles, but the next one has many more articles posted.
Sharing Sustainable Solutions, "to meet and share information, ideas, and projects to make living in harmony with nature and one another a reality."
City Farmer's Urban Agriculture Notes, with loads of articles and links.
Simple and Sustainable Living. Many links, photo galleries, books, videos.
Possum Living, the complete text of the book by Dolly Freed.
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture, a giant online collection of books.
Rancho Costa Nada, Phil Garlington's page about living dirt cheap in the desert.
Nurseries
Raintree is great all around, a little expensive. Get the catalog!
Burnt Ridge has a wider selection and lower prices. Lots of northwest natives.
Plants of the Wild sells northwest native seedlings in large quantities.
St. Lawrence Nurseries focuses on cold climates, with 150
apples on Antonovka.
Edible Landscaping is another good east coast nursery.
Trees of Antiquity
Vintage Virginia Apples
Sandy Bar Nursery
Plant Reference
Plants for a Future database search. Good info on thousands of species!
Edible Landscaping and Gardening. Only a few dozen plants here, but the information is more complete and presented better than on the PFAF site.
GardenWeb forum
USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
AHS Heat Zone Map (damn hard to find!)
Sunset zone map
Tree and shrub species distribution maps
Blueberry varieties evaluated
fruit tree harvest report, very useful for Washington state.
Popular rootstocks compared for peach/almond, cherry, apple.
my big landblog post on
apple varieties
Building
The Cob Builders Handbook, most of the book free online.
All Things Cordwood
Green Home Building, lots of info!
How to build
a $100 log cabin.
How to build a geodesic dome out of cardboard
Mike Oehler's
underground housing site where you can buy his
$50 and Up Underground House Book.
Annualized Geo-Solar -- stored heat from summer lasts until winter!
Wood strength data
Other info
Wind Rose Data, detailed charts of wind speed, direction, and frequency for hundreds of locations in the USA.
How to make seed balls
The complete
Humanure Handbook online!
Knife maintanence and sharpening. Excellent complete overview.
Growing a beautiful edible landscape in an urban neighborhood
Wood stove reviews
Washington and California species distribution maps
The Solar Cooking Archive
Buy Stuff
The impressive
Acres USA online book catalog, "the premier source of books on organic/sustainable farming and eco-living."
Lehman's. Non-electric appliances and tools. Expensive, but some things they carry are not available anywhere else.
Tumbleweed Tiny Houses. If I had more money and less time, I'd probably order one of these.
Lee Valley Tools, great source of sharpening, woodworking and gardening tools.
Tagari publications, source for permaculture books, if you can't find them used.