#97 Life on the Edge, Fall 2015 , $6.50

• A New Culture of Healing by Jesse Wolf Hardin

• Hedgerows Make Better Neighbors by Molly Phemister

• Life on the Edge by Rick Valley

• Hellstrip Polycultures by Frank Raymond Cetera

• Permaculture in Succession: Reaching the Masses by Alan Booker

• Humanure: Just Do It by Stan Wilson

• Deep Roots for Dynamic Accumulation? by Robert Kourik

• Walking the Line: Culture by Jeanmarie Zirger

• Designing for Childen and Elders by Roman Shapla

• Gardening Natives by Dara Saville

• Whole Earth, Whole Birth by Marly Hornik

• Grief: Designing for Disaster by Lonnie Howell

• Green Chinampas by Jeanmarie Zirger

• Food Justice and Edible Schoolyards by Patricia Sprague
   

#96 Building the Solar Economy, Summer, 2015 , $6.50

• The Gross Society: Why Energy Profit Matters by Richard Heinberg

• Enchanted Ecosystems: Bioshelters and Solar Greenhouses by Jason Workman

• Designing the Passivhaus by Christina Snyder

• Lemons in the Living Room by Sue Gray and Jerome Osentowski

• Solar Success in the Midwest by Woodie Bessler, Darrell Boggess, Anne Heddin, & Terry Usrey

• Planting Rain in the Desert by Jeremy Lynch

• Active Systems for the Passive Solar House by Christina Snyder

• Building a Solar Business by N. Ryan Zaricki

• Perennial Grains and Pseudocereals, Part 2, by Eric Toensmeier

• Revival of a Peer-Driven Permaculture Organization by Penny Livingston-Stark and Peter Bane

• Species Index (Issues #75-90)

• Book Reviews:
  Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels by Richard Heinberg (review by Peter Bane);
  Seed Libraries and other means of keeping seeds in the hands of the people by Cindy Connor
  (review by Peter Bane);
  Around the World in 80 Plants by Stephen Barstow (review by Peter Bane).
   

#95, Perennial Crops, Spring, 2014, $6.50

• Perennial Crops, Perennial Cultures by Adam Brock

• Hybrid Swarms and Hickory-Pecans by Philip A. Rutter

• De-Slugging the Woods by Steve Gabriel

• Perennial Sugar by Bill Whipple

• Regreening Haiti by Braden Trauth

• Four Perennial Vegetables by Martin Crawford

• Perennial Cereals and Pseudocereals by Eric Toensmeier

• Basic Guild Patterning by Rico Zook

• One, Two, Three – Actinidia! by Jono Neiger

• A Forager’s Journey to the Future by Ande Shewe

• General Index (Issues #75-90)

• Book Reviews:
  The Community-Scale Permaculture Farm (Review by Peter Bane);
  Organic Mushroom Farming and MycoRemediation (Review by Brian Mets);
  Growing Hybrid Hazelnuts (Review by Peter Bane); 
  Eat Your Greens (Review by Peter Bane)
   

#94, Seasonal Cycles of Work, Autumn, 2014, $6.50

• Festivals and Forestry on the Ecological Calendar by Tom Ward

• A High Desert Homestead by Erin O’Neill

• Seasons of the Market Garden by Darrell Frey

• Eating Year-Round from a Wisconsin Garden by Kathleen Plunkett-Black

• Energy Through the Seasons by Peter Bane

• Weaving the Threads of Resilience by Rhonda Baird

• Forest Garden Research by Tomas Remiarz

• Reviews:
  Farming the Woods: An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals
  in the Temperate Forest by Ken Mudge and Steve Gabriel (Reviewer Peter Bane);
  Sustainable [R]evolution: Permaculture in Ecovillages, Urban Farms and Communities
  Worldwide. [Reviewer Michael Welber]
   

#93, Experimentation-
Science in Permaculture, Autumn, 2014, $6.50

• Critical Questions for Permaculture by Rafter Sass Ferguson

• Dynamic Accumulators Revisited by Robert Kourik

• Experimentation in Permaculture by Chris Warburton-Brown

• Nitrogen-Fixing Vegetables by Jonathan Bates

• Bio-Char – the Carbon Kickstarter by Kelpie Wison & Hans-Peter Schmidt

• People’s Science or Pseudoscience? by Rafter Sass Ferguson

• Permaculture Farmer in Malawi by Abigail Conrad

• Forming a More Perfect Union: Permaculture & Academia by Steve Gabriel

• Soil and Biodiversity Test by Tom Kemeny

• Political Ecology & Public Permaculture by Christopher Kelly-Bisson

• Reviews:
  A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Liiving & Innner Abundance (Review by Erin Schey); The Art & Science of Shepherding: Tapping the Wisdom of French Herders (Review by Peter Bane); Integrated Forest Gardening: The complete guide to polycultures & plant guilds in permaculture systems (Review by Peter Bane); The Permaculture Orchard (video) (Review by Peter Bane)
   

#92, Stacking Functions, Summer, 2014, $6.50

• A Primer on Stacking Functions by Matt Smaus

• Making the Most of Every Growing Surface by Marie F. Fleming

• 55 Uses of Biochar by Hans-Peter Schmidt & Kelpie Wilson

• Growing Community Against Steep Odds by Amy Stross

• A Linguistic Permaculture of the Oak by Ben Kessler

• Nature, Culture, and Self by Bonita Ford

• Fodder Banking in Central America by Justin West

• Designing with the Rule of Three by Rhonda Baird

• Sensible Solutions for a World of Extremes: Colorado Flooding by Jason Gerhardt

• North American Permaculture Convergence by Michael Pilarski

• Species Index to Issues 41-74 (May 1999 – Winter 2009

• Book reviews:
  Earth Users Guide to Teaching Permaculture, 2nd Edition;
  Building Small Barns, Sheds, & Shelters;
  Free-Range Chicken Gardens: How to Create a Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard; T
  he Mobile Poultry Slaughterhouse;
  Secrets of Plant Propagation;
  Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Vol. 1, 2nd Edition;
  Cider: Making, Using, & Enjoying Sweet & Hard Cider, 3rd Edition;
  Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game;
  The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower’s Handbook for Small-Scale Organic Farming;
  Yigal Deutscher: Envisioning Sabbatical Culture
   

#91, Seeds, Spring, 2014, $6.50

• Stewards of Arizona Seed-Sheds by Chris Franco

• Seed Saving Primer by Randel Agrella

• Remember the Leucaena by Marjory Wildcraft

• Volunteer Plants in the Garden by Michael Pilarski

• Successful Seed-Saving by Hillie Salo

• Bioregional Seed-Sheds by Don Tipping

• Saving the Seeds of Cheese by David Asher Rotzstain

• Create Your Own Seed Bank by Randel Agrella

• The Seeds of Community: Forest Garden Emerging by Frank Raymond Cetera

• Start a Community Seed Bank by Ellen Rainwalker

• GMO Seeds: The New Green Revolution in Africa by Trina Moyles

• Index to Permaculture Activist #59 – 74 (2006-2009)

• Book reviews:
  Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist; American Exodus: Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival; The Vegetable Gardener’s Guide to Permaculture: Creating An Edible Ecosystem
   

#90, Appropriate Technology, Winter, 2013-14, $6.50

• It’s Getting Better All the Time…. by Maurice Schauffert

• Low-Tech Tools for Zone 4 by Ben Weiss

• Rocket Mass Heaters by Leslie Jackson

• Stocking Up with Solar Power: Evaluating Food Dryers by Dennis Scanlin

• Teaching an Old Pump New Tricks by Douglas Bullock

• WWOOFing Bonds Virtual with Face-to-Face Community by Dan Moberger

• Social Sharing Software by Chris Carnevale

• Hand-Powered Oil Presses by John Wages

• Facing the Giants: Permaculture Trials at a Big Ag School by Kevin Woltz

• Scythes: A Gem from the Past by Vaidila Satvika

• Convivial Technology: The Scythe by Peter Vido

• Board Game Technology for Education by Roman Shapla

• Solar Double-Cropping by Glen & Lyle Estill

• Community-Supported Industry by Susan Witt

• Book Reviews:
  Small Stories, Big Changes: Agents of change on the front lines of sustainability;
  The Woodland Way, 2nd Ed.: A permaculture approach to sustainable woodland management;
  Earth Repair: A grassroots guide to healing toxic & damaged landscapes;
  Let It Shine: The 6000-year story of solar energy;
  Growing Food in the Southwest Mountains: A guide to high altitude, semi-arid home permaculture gardens
   

#89, Practicing Democracy, Autumn, 2013, $6.50

• Mimicking Life’s Politics by Ellen Laconte

• The Case for Slow Democracy by Susan Clark & Woden Teachout

• David vs. Goliath: Seed Libraries by Stephanie Syson

• Mapping the Way to Prosperity in Rhode Island by Greg Gerritt

• Lessons from the Iroquois in Self-Organizing Governance by Joel Glanzberg

• A Toolbox for Social Permaculture by Abrah Jordan Dresdale & Connor Stedman

• Entrepreneurship & the Three-Legged Stool of Sustainability by Lee Walker Warren

• Bring a Little Dirt into Your Life: So. Calif. Community Gardens by Bill Roley

• The Forgotten Herb: Sweet Cicely by Jill Henderson

• Patoralism: Problem or Solution by Alice Gray

• Losing Ground in the Solomon Islands by Rosemary Morrow

• Book Reviews: Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Food Rights: The escalating battle over who decides what we eat;
  The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors toolkit;
  Principles of Ecological Landscape Design;
  Financing our Foodshed: Growing Local Food with Slow Money;
  Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Climate: Lessons from desert farmers on adapting to climate uncertainty
   

#88, Earth Skills & Nature Connection, Summer, 2013, $6.50

• Mentoring for the Earth: Nature Connection & Cultural Repair by Mark Morey

• Building a Permaculture Legacy Through Nature Connection by Jon Young & Josh Lane

• Connecting Youth to Nature & Self by Rick Berry

• Wild Animals Tell Us by Tom Ward

• Teaching Earth Skill to Children by Roman Shapla

• Permaculture & Wilderness Survival by Adam “Hub” Knott

• Tracks to a Full Stomach by Bonita Ford

• Traditional Observation Techniques for the Permaculture Designer by Benjamin Weiss

• Adventures in Oyster-Tecture: Thought on Seabed Design by Jason Gerhardt

• A Personal Forest: Reclaiming Our Carbon Footprints by Albert Bates

• Suburban Agroforestry: An Ohio Valley Prototype by Blake Cothron

• Book Reviews: Perennial Vegetable Gardening;
  Plowing with Pigs: And Other Creative, Low-budget Homesteading Solutions;
  Restoration Agriculture: Real-world Permaculture for Farmers;
  Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, & Secure Food Systems;
  The Resilient Farm & Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture & Whole Systems Design Approach
   

#87, Weeds to the Rescue, Spring, 2013, $6

• Managing Weedy Species by Tao Orion;

• Where the Sheet Mulch Hits the Road by Creighton Hofeditz;

• These Are a few of My Favorite Weeds by Stephanie Syson & Jerome Osentowski;

• Wisdom of Weeds by Frank Salzano;

• The Underestimated Paulownia by Tony Troia;

• Grafting onto Weedy Opportunities by Bill Whipple;

• Net-Generation Polycultures by Eric Toensmeier;

• Burdon Enemy, Burdock Ally by Ryan Bloosser & Ted Butchart

• Rescuing the Reputation of Weeds by Tom Ward;

• Index to Permaculture Activist issues 41-58

• Book Reviews:
  The Organic Seed Grower: A farmer’s guide to vegetable seed production (in Word);
  Permaculture Design: A step-by-step guide; Paradise Lot: Two plant geeks, one-tenth of an acre, and the making of an edible garden oasis in the city; Making Home: Adapting our homes and our lives to settle in place
   

#86, Health & Nutrition, Winter, 2012-13, $6

• Naturopathy Centre Integrates Health & Community by Katherine Willow;

• Seasonal Eating for Health by Tiffany Robbins;

• Reclaiming Plant Medicine by rachel Berry;

• Mushrooms & Vit D: The Sun Connection by Paul Stamets;

• The Herbal Medic: Herbal First Aid by Sam Coffman;

• Edible Insects by Roman Shapla;

• Forest Gardens on Campus by Macon Foscue;

• Beer for Health & Happiness by Phil Wages;

• Growing Wise Children by Leigh Senna;

• Fenugreek: A Versatile & Healing Herb by Jill Henderson;

• Choosing Plants & Animals for Edible Landscapes by Kyle Chamberlain;

• Not All Nitrogen Fixers Are Created Equal by Eric Toensmeier;

• The Benefit of Ordeal by Albert Bates

• Book Reviews:
  People Money: The Promise of Regional Currency;
  The Art of Fermentation;
  The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, champion trees, & an urgent plan to save the planet;
  How to Grow Perennial Vegetables: Low-maintenance, low-impact vegetable gardening;
  Future Money: Breakdown or Breakthrough;
  The “Ultimate” Guide to Permaculture (don’t buy this book, it’s neither permaculture nor “ultimate”)
   

#85, There Goes the Neighborhood, Autumn 2012, $6

• Rural, Urban, and Potential Neighborhoods by Creighton Hofeditz

• The Needs of Sustainable Communities by David Bainbridge

• “Re-Villagize”: Patterns to Build the Neighborhood by Andrew Millison

• Community Solar Power by Greg Pahl

• Multi-Farm CSA in NH: Local Economic Organizing by Scott Codey & Bethan Weick

• Cultivating Food-Secure Communities by Mark Roseland

• SENS House at Berea College: Metrics on Sustainability by Richard Olson

• Cross-Country on Amtrak: Thoughts on Broadscale Restoration by Michael Pilarski

• Relocating an Intentional Community by Tarenta Baldeschi

• Community Common Rights and Fracking by Pamela Sherman

• Book Reviews:
  2052: A global forecast for the next 40 years;
  Too Much Magic: Wishful thinking, technology, and the fate of the nation;
  Dreaming the Future: Reimagining civilization in the age of nature;
  Honeycomb Kids: Big picture parenting for a changing world;
  The Seed Underground: A growing revolution to save food
   

#84, Home and Hearth, Summer 2012, $6

• The Permaculture of Domesticity by Sharon Astyk

• Natural Building by Sasha Rabin

• The Recip0rocating Roof Roundhouse by Huckleberry Leonard

• Fire at the Heart of the Home: Retrofitting a Monrovian Barn by Max Jensen

• Tending the Hearth by Andrew Goodheart Brown

• Inching Toward Permaculture by Ileana Grams-Moog

• Grow Dome Pops Up in Denver by Reggie Lafaye

• Growing the Homebody Economy by Rachel Kaplan

• Homeschooling and Permaculture Adventures by Rhonda Baird

• Permaculture in Damaged Drylands by Dan Smith

• Nova Scotia: Sticks and Stumps Feed the Hearth by Marissa Ringel

• Book Reviews:
  The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country;
  Independence Days: A guide to sustainable food storage and preservation;
  Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural farming, global restoration and ultimate food security
   

#83, The Economy of Wood, Spring 2012, $6

• The Polewood Economy by Mark Krawczyk

• Living by Wood by Bethann Weick

• A Basket-Maker’s Landscape by Tom Ward

• Ligurian Alnoculture: An Italian Example by Dave Jacke

• The Fuel of Choice by Peter Bane

• What to Do with All the Wood by Jeanmarie Zirger & Kara Cifizzari

• Black Locust: Utility or Futility by Bill Whipple

• Perennial Staple Crops: Part 2 by Eric Toensmeier

• Book Reviews:
  Asphalt to Ecosystems;
  Occupy World Street;
  The KunstlerCast;
  The Holistic Orchard
   

#82, Growing Staple Crops, Winter 2012 , $6

• Growing Staple Foods in Permaculture by Mark Shepard

• Tell Me Where You Get Your Bread by Michelle Ajamian & Brandon Jaeger

• Staple Crops Without Tillage –

• Part 1, Dry Beans; Part 2, Growing Corn among the 3 Sisters by Susanna Lein

• Pole Beans – The Vagaries of Phaseolus by Leigh Hurley

• Poor People’s Food by John Glavis

• Pig-Powered Potatoes by Behann Weick

• Growing Rice in Vermont by Erik Andrus with Ben Falk

• Who Am I to Farm? by Peter Bane

• Working Out a New Farming System by Harry MacCormack

• Perennial Staple Crops by Eric Toensmeier

• Chestnuts: Staple Foods Do Grow on Trees by Frank Salzano

• Acorn: The Perennial Grain by Kyle Keegan

• Book Reviews:
  Permaculture Pioneers: Stories from the New Frontier;
  The Blue Economy: 10 years, 100 innovations, 100 million jobs
   

#81, Hidden Connections in the Garden, Autumn 2011, $6

• Green Acres Neighborhood Garden, The Place to Be by Ann Kreilkamp

• Urban Agriculture – Bringing Paradise Back to the Empty Lot by David Tracey

• Food Means Access to Land by Sandor Ellix Katz

• Tending the Wild: Restoring Indigenous Practices by Eric Toensmeier

• Hoarding and Storing Seeds by Carol Deppe

• Gardening Religion: Choices in our Cultural Stew by David Haberman

• Lifting the Garden Up: Deep Raised Beds by Sepp Holzer

• A Better Deer Fence by Nina Maclean

• Greenhouses with Altitude by Jerome Osentowski, Evan Granito, Elena Zubulake & Sara DeAloia

• Managing Manure to Save Mankind by Gene Logsden

• Wild Edibles in Civilized Settings by Rachel Kaplan

• For the Love of Mushrooms by Greg Marley

• Book Reviews:
  The End of Growth: Adapting to our new economic reality;
  Urban Homesteading: Heirloom skills for sustainable living;
  Common Ground: Commuity orchards handbook;
  Urban Agriculture: Ideas & designs for the new food revolution;
  21st Century Greens: Leaf vegetables in nutrition & sustainable agriculture;
  Aquaponic Gardening: A step-by-step guide to raising vegetables & fish together
   

#80, Designing for Disaster, Summer 2011, $6

• Mitigating Collapse by Dmitry Orlov

• Global Storming: The Bathtub Effect by Peter Bane

• Preparing for & Responding to the Worst: Fire, Quake, Storm, Flood by Steve Cran

• Stabilizing Climate with Permanent Agriculture by Eric Toensmeier

• Self-Care in a Disastrous World by Rhonda Baird

• When Technology Fails: Ensuring Food Supplies by Matthew Stein

• Learning to Live with Drought by Peter Bane

• Book Reviews:
  Bioshelter Market Garden: A permaculture farm; 
  Prelude: A novel about secrets, treachery & the arrival of peak oil;
  The Witch of Hebron: A world made by hand novel;
  Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture: A practical guide for farmers, smallholders & gardeners;
  Roundwood Timber Framing: Building naturally using local resources;
  A Forest Garden Year: DVD