Some of Farmer Ben’s Favorite Books:

Garden Curriculum:

Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability, The Center for Ecoliteracy

Big Ideas, The Center for Ecoliteracy

Life Lab Curriculum, UCSC

The Edible Schoolyard Garden Companion, The Edible Schoolyard

San Francisco Bay Area:

The Ohlone Way, Malcolm Margolin

Golden Gate Gardening, Pam Pierce

Tending the Wild, M. Kat Anderson

The Sunset Western Garden Book

Soil Life and Fertility Management:

Feed the Soil, Edwin McLeod

Start With the Soil, Grace Gershuny

Teeming with Microbes, Jeff Lowenfels, Wayne Lewis

Worms Ate My Garbage!, Mary Appelhoff

Hands-On Agronomy, Neal Kinsey

Mushrooms Demystified, David Aurora

Mycellium Running, Paul Stamets

Botany and Plant Propagation:

Seed to Seed, Suzanne Ashworth

Roots Demystified, Robert Kourik

Botany for Gardeners, Brian Capon

Enduring Seeds, Gary Nabhan

Forgotten Pollinators, Gary Nabhan

Beekeeping

The Art and Adventure of Beekeeping, Harry and Ormon Aebi

Natural Beekeeping, Ross Conrad

The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture, A.I. Root

The Hive and The Honey Bee, Dadant and Sons

Philosophy and Inspiration:

The One Straw Revolution, Masanobu Fukuoka

Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate, Wendy Johnson

What Matters, Wendell Berry