READING LIST

HOMESTEADING + PERMACULTURE

  • A Chicken in Every Yard by Robert and Hannah Litt
  • Fresh Food from Small Spaces by Chelsea Green
  • Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture by Tony Hemenway
  • The Backyard Homestead by Carleen Madigan
  • Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster
  • Raising Chickens for Dummies
  • Goodwives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England 1650-1750 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

PLANTS

  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Breverton’s Complete Herbal: A book of remarkable plants and their uses by Terry Breverton, based on Culpepper’s The English Physician and Compleat Herball of 1653
  • Southwest Foraging by John Slattery
  • Plants of the Devil by Corinne Boyer

FEMINISM

  • If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie
  • Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
  • Witches, Midwives & Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
  • Goodwives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England 1650-1750 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
  • Sex in History by Reay Tannahill
  • Women, Culture & Politics by Angela Davis
  • The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
  • The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf
  • The Wise Wound: Myths, Realities, and Meanings of Menstruation by Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove
  • The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (FICTION)
  • The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber (FICTION)
  • The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George (FICTION)

PAGANISM + WITCHCRAFT

  • The Cunning Man’s Handbook by Jim Baker
  • The Witches’ Ointment: The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic by Thomas Hatsis
  • Horns of Honor by Frederick Thomas Elworthy
  • Satanism and Witchcraft: A Study in Medieval Superstition by Jules Michelet
  • A Modest Inquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft by John Hale
  • Celtic Myths and Legends by Peter Berresford Ellis
  • Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (FICTION)
  • The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (FICTION)

PSYCHEDELIA

  • Breaking Open the Head by Daniel Pinchbeck
  • The Active Side of Infinity by Carlos Castaneda
  • The Psychedelic Reader edited by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzler, and Gunther M. Weil
  • The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience by R.E.L. Masters and Jean Houston
  • Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit by Tom Cowan
  • The Way of the Shaman by Michael Harner
  • Cave and Cosmos by Michael Harner