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NZ Permaculture Books

Books which are relevant to permaculturalists and are about New Zealand or written by New Zealanders.

Contributions are welcome! But please note that for the moment, I'm only adding books which are currently in print. 🌻 🐓 🌳

If you are looking general recommendations on permaculture and regenerative agriculture, John Kempf maintains an excellent list of books.

58 books
Abundant Garden

Abundant Garden

A practical guide to growing a regenerative home garden

The Abundant Kitchen

The Abundant Kitchen

A practical guide to making ferments, preserves and pickles

Biodynamic Pasture Management

Biodynamic Pasture Management

Balancing fertility, life and energy

The Biophilic Garden

The Biophilic Garden

Connecting people, plants and inscape

Change of Heart

Change of Heart

The ecology of nourishing food

A Change of Season

A Change of Season

Growing food to survive

Cooking Food to Survive

Cooking Food to Survive

Cooking with fire

Design Your Own Orchard

Design Your Own Orchard

Bringing permaculture design to the ground in Aotearoa

Discovering Vegetables, Herbs & Spices

Discovering Vegetables, Herbs & Spices

A comprehensive guide to the cultivation, uses and health benefits of over 200 food producing plants

The Edible Backyard

The Edible Backyard

A practical guide to growing organic fruit and vegetables all year round

The Everyday Herbalist

The Everyday Herbalist

The essential guide to growing & using herbs in Aotearoa

A Field Guide to the Native Edible Plants of New Zealand

A Field Guide to the Native Edible Plants of New Zealand

Illustrated with line drawings and colour photographs

Fodder and Forage

Fodder and Forage

Creating diverse animal feed systems in New Zealand

For the Love of Soil

For the Love of Soil

Strategies to regenerate our food production systems

A Forager's Life

A Forager's Life

A tender and spellbinding debut memoir

Forager's Treasury

Forager's Treasury

The essential guide to finding and using wild plants in Aotearoa

Foraging New Zealand

Foraging New Zealand

An essential guide to foraging in New Zealand

Fungi of Aotearoa

Fungi of Aotearoa

A curious forager's field guide

The Germinate Workbook

The Germinate Workbook

A growing guide for beginner gardeners & facilitators

Grasp the Nettle

Grasp the Nettle

Making Biodynamic farming & gardening work

Grow

Grow

Wāhine finding connection through food

Growing Gormet Mushrooms at Home

Growing Gormet Mushrooms at Home

An introductory guide

Hands in the Dirt

Hands in the Dirt

Grow your own kai with Mrs Evans

The Home Orchard

The Home Orchard

Essential NZ guide to growing fruit

Homegrown Happiness

Homegrown Happiness

A kiwi guide to living off the suburban land

How To Care For Your Poultry: Volume 1

How To Care For Your Poultry: Volume 1

Your essential guide to keeping chickens

How To Care For Your Poultry: Volume 2

How To Care For Your Poultry: Volume 2

Another essential guide to keeping chickens

Just Add Salt

Just Add Salt

Growing skills to survive

Life on Fodder Farm

Life on Fodder Farm

An inspiring and practical guide to simple living and reducing our impact on the land

Te Mahi Māra Hua Parakore

Te Mahi Māra Hua Parakore

A Māori food sovereignty handbook
Te Mahi Oneone Hua Parakore

Te Mahi Oneone Hua Parakore

A Māori soil sovereignty and wellbeing handbook

Māori Healing and Herbal

Māori Healing and Herbal

New Zealand ethnobotanical sourcebook

Māori Healing Remedies

Māori Healing Remedies

Rongoā Māori

The Meaning of Trees

The Meaning of Trees

The history and use of New Zealand's native plants

Navigating the Stars

Navigating the Stars

Māori creation myths

Out of the Helix

Out of the Helix

Essays on cultural transformation

Pruning Fruit Trees

Pruning Fruit Trees

A beginner's guide

Re-food

Re-food

Exploring the troubled food system of Aotearoa New Zealand

Rongoā Māori

Rongoā Māori

A practical guide to traditional Māori Medicine

Seed Harvesting and Processing

Seed Harvesting and Processing

Techniques on collecting seed from the garden

Seed Harvesting and Processing

Seed Harvesting and Processing

The art of sowing seeds and producing healthy plants for your garden

Ultimate Fruit & Nuts

Ultimate Fruit & Nuts

A comprehensive guide to the cultivation, uses and health benefits of over 300 food producing plants

Weeds Heal

Weeds Heal

A working herbal

What Your Chickens Want You to Know

What Your Chickens Want You to Know

Backyard chicken-keeping in Aotearoa

The Wild Green Yonder

The Wild Green Yonder

Ten seasons volunteering on New Zealand's organic farms

Wild Seed

Wild Seed

This land had been stripped of trees for at least one hundred years

Wind Gardens

Wind Gardens

How to create beautiful gardens in exposed places
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