General
Permaculture forums at permies.com, with threads on many subjects.
Journey to Forever Small Farms Library, with links to more than 50 online books and to other pages of links to books.
richsoil.com has detailed articles on several subjects, with especially good ones on rocket mass heaters and chickens.
Path to Freedom, "living a self-sufficient lifestyle in an urban setting."
City Farmer's Urban Agriculture Notes, with loads of articles and links.
Simple and Sustainable Living. Many links, photo galleries, books, videos.
Oasis Design has many pages of ecological design information and advice, most of it on water, and some pages that are just ads for books.
Possum Living, the complete text of the book by Dolly Freed, now available only on the web archive.
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 and Seeds
Raintree is great all around, a little expensive. Get the catalog!
Burnt Ridge has a wider selection and lower prices. Lots of northwest natives.
St. Lawrence Nurseries focuses on cold climates, with 150
apples on Antonovka.
Southmeadow Fruit Gardens has an impressive selection of rare apples, and lots of other stuff.
Plants of the Wild and the
University of Idaho Nursery both sell northwest native seedlings for low prices.
Edible Landscaping, good east coast nursery.
Trees of Antiquity heirloom fruit trees.
Vintage Virginia Apples, many varieties and lots of photos.
Apple Search, very rare varieties.
Richters, great source of small plants and herb seeds.
Inside Passage Seeds sells seeds of native plants of coastal Cascadia.
Plant Reference
Plants for a Future database search. Good info on thousands of species. If that site is down, you can also access
PFAF at ibiblio.
Edible Landscaping and Gardening. Only a few dozen plants here, but the information is more complete and presented better than on the PFAF site.
USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map. As of September 2009, this map has not been updated since 1990, because the Bush administration was blocking anything that showed warming. A new map with greater detail might be up by 2010, and here's a simple
2006 zone map from the Arbor Day foundation.
AHS Heat Zone Map (damn hard to find!)
Sunset zone maps
Tree and shrub species distribution maps
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!
Cob House Journal, a construction photo gallery with descriptions of every step.
The Year of Mud, a blog about cob building.
Cob house photo gallery
How to build
a $100 log cabin.
How to build a geodesic dome out of cardboard
Mike Oehler's
underground housing site.
Annualized Geo-Solar -- stored heat from summer lasts until winter!
Wood strength data
Other info
DIY Water Projects, a huge collection of links about rainwater harvesting, greywater, and so on.
Build your own
wood-fired all-in-one outdoor masonry oven.
Anagama-West, an extensive site about woodfired pottery kilns.
GardenWeb forum
Ambassador of Fruit, about an Iranian scientist helping Idaho farmers expand into unusual fruits
Good article about
rock dust
How to make seedballs
The complete
Humanure Handbook online!
Knife maintenance and sharpening
The Solar Cooking Archive
Growing a beautiful edible landscape in an urban neighborhood
Multi Fuel Stoves, various information about wood stoves
Wood stove reviews
Wind Rose Data, detailed charts of wind speed, direction, and frequency for hundreds of locations in the USA
Dark Sky Finder, a Google map overlay showing light pollution in North America
Washington and California species distribution maps
Buy Stuff
StoveTec Rocket Stoves are probably the most efficient wood-burning cooking stoves you can buy, and a great deal.
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.