CONNECT offers opportunities to explore local and other resources and a variety of reading material related to each aspect of Lorenziniworks: Grow, Build, Move, Inhabit. This list of resources and reading is by no means comprehensive, and will be augmented periodically. Please suggest additional items that have positively impacted your learning and growth, so that they may be included here. I have chosen not to provide website links to simplify this page, since links are easily accessible through Google and other internet searches. And, I prefer books.
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Community Food Bank: local food security programs, farmer’s markets, on- and off-site gardens, food consignment program, SNAP and WIC programs, on-site rainwater harvesting, etc; Native Seeds/SEARCH: local seeds, seed & grain school, seed repository, books, native foods, gifts & crafts store, classes, salons, demonstration farm, events; Pima County Public Library Seed Library: local seed exchange at various branches; Community Gardens of Tucson: grow-you-own plots at various sites; Food Conspiracy Food Co-op: local produce, eat-local challenge, all-organic produce, member-owned, Conspiracy kitchen to-go deli and food garden, special events; Tank’s Green Stuff: mulch, compost, topsoil and potting soil from local “waste” stream; Tucson Botanical Gardens: extensive grounds, classes, books, events, tours, greenhouses, live butterfly exhibit, demonstration gardens, garden cafe, etc; Tucson Organic Gardeners: newsletter, meetings, presentations, events, monthly potluck, plant sales; Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA): Sleeping Frog Farm, Menlo Farms, Tucson Village Farm, Tucson CSA, Avalon Gardens, Arivaca Community Garden, Forever Yong, Walking J Farm, River Road Gardens, Down On the Farm, Agua Linda Farm, Sunizona Family Farm, etc; University of AZ Cooperative Extension/Master Gardener Programs: classes, hotline, demonstration gardens; Sabores Sin Fronteras: celebrating regional food diversity and place-based eating in southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico; Slow Food Tucson: exploring ideas from Carlo Petrini’s Slow Food Manifesto, events; Desert Harvesters: community mesquite millings, educational website & demonstrations, Eat Mesquite cookbook, fiesta and other events celebrating native foods; Tucson Audubon Society: book and gift shop, events, education, conservation programs; Bean Tree Farm: classes, permaculture demonstration site, retreat opportunities, unique native foods; Sonoran Permaculture Guild: permaculture certification intensives, classes, website, events; Desert Survivor’s Nursery: native plants nursery including Sonoran Desert and other heat- and drought-tolerant plants, heritage plants from the Jesuit Mission era, mulch, compost and other supplies, knowledgeable staff, recycled planting containers available; Watershed Management Group: classes, Green Streets Program, certification courses, collaboration with City and County code related to greywater and rainwater, neighborhood co-ops; Arbico Organics: beneficial insects, soil fertility supplies; Ishkashitaa Refugee Harvesting Network: gleaning program and other projects that support refugees in Tucson, also features cookbook, value-added products, and crafts made by refugees; Local Harvest: lists local foods and farmer’s markets in various states; Local First Arizona: encourages people to buy local first, to keep dollars in the community and support local businesses; Southwest Victory Gardens: garden installation and education; Tucson and Southern AZ Farmer’s Markets: El Pueblo-Saturday, Santa Cruz River-Thursday, Community Food Bank-Tuesday, Oro Valley-Saturday, St Phillip’s Plaza-Saturday, Rincon Valley-Saturday, Downtown Mercado-Thursday, Broadway Village-Friday, Plaza Palomino-Saturday, El Presidio-Friday, Heirloom at Jesse Owens-Friday, Bear Canyon-Saturday, Marana-Monday, Park Place Mall-Tuesday, Green Valley Village-Wednesday, Oracle-Saturday, Sunsites-Saturday, Loft Cinema-Saturday, Bisbee-Saturday, San Manuel-Saturday, Sierra Vista-Thursday, Douglas-Sunday, Elgin-Sunday, Maynard’s Market-Saturday.
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Gardening for the Future of the Earth—Howard-Yana Shapiro & John Harrison; Silent Spring–Rachel Carson; Living the Good Life—Helen & Scott Nearing; The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Second Nature, Cooked, In Defense of Food, A Place of My Own, The Botany of Desire–Michael Pollan; In the Green Kitchen, The Art of Simple Food, Chez Panisse Cookbooks, Edible Schoolyard, Slow Food: The Case for Taste (with Petrini & McCuaig)–Alice Waters; Slow Food–Carlo Petrini; Diet for a New America–John Robbins; Wild Fermentation, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, The Art of Fermentation–Sandor Katz; Four Season Harvest, The New Organic Gardener, Winter Harvest Handbook–Eliot Coleman, The Town That Food Saved—Ben Hewitt; Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands & Beyond Vols 1-2-3—Brad Lancaster; The Natural Way of Farming, The One Straw Revolution, The Road Back to Nature—Masoma Fukuoka; Start with the Soil—G Gershuny; Plants, Man, & Life—E Anderson; The Permaculture Garden, The Permaculture Way—G Bell; The Gift of Good Land, Farming: A Handbook, Mad Farmer Poems—Wendell Berry; Rodale’s Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening, The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Insect& Disease Control–F Bradley & B Ellis; The Children’s Kitchen Garden—G & E Brennan; Let It Rot!–S Campbell; Good Neighbors: Companion Planting for Gardeners—A Carr; Edible Landscaping—R Creasy; Shattering: Food, Politics, & the Loss of Genetic Diversity—G Fowler & P Mooney; Backyard Self-Sufficiency—J French; The Man Who Planted Trees—J Giono; Earth in the Balance, The Future, An Inconvenient Truth—Al Gore; The Soil & Health—Sir A Howard; How to Grow More Vegetables—John Jeavons; Earthly Goods: Medicine Hunting—C Joyce; Complete Guide to Pruning & Training Plants—D Joyce; What Is Bio-Dynamic Gardening?—H Koepf; Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth—W Logan; Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth—L Margulis & K Schwartz; The Rodale Book of Composting—D Martin & G Gershuny; Epitaph for a Peach, The Peach Cookbook—D Masumoto; Feed the Soil—E McLeod; Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual, Permaculture: A Practical Guide for a Sustainable Future—Bill Mollison; Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture—R Morrow; The Vanishing Feast: How Dwindling Genetic Diversity Threatens the World’s Food Supply—D Patent; Monocultures of the Mind, Staying Alive: Women, Technology, & Development, Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, & Profit, Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply—Vandana Shiva; Patterns in Nature—P Stevens; Culture & Horticulture: A Philosophy of Gardening—W Storl; Groundwork: A Gardener’s Ecology—R Swain; Faith In A Seed—Henry David Thoreau; The Diversity of Life, In Search of Nature, Biodiversity—EO Wilson; Water for Every Farm—P Yeomans; Handbook of Medicinal Herbs—J Duke; Extinction—P & A Ehrlich; Edible Plants of the World—U Hendrick; Kinship Gardening—Alan Kapular; The Secret Life of Plants–Peter Tompkins & Christopher Bird; Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants—A Peterson; Seed to Seed—S Ashworth; Seed Saver’s Handbook—M & J Fanton; Preserving Summer’s Bounty—S McClure; New Roots for Agriculture—Wes Jackson; Organic Gardening: An Essential Guide—M & C Lavelle; Teeming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web—J Lowenfels & W Lewis; The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food—Janisse Ray; Botany for Gardeners—Brian Capon; Breeding Organic Vegetables—Rowen White & Bryan Connolly; Crops & Man—Jack Harlan; The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, & Sustainability in Gardens of Ethnic Americans—Patricia Klindeinst; Gathering: Memoir of a Seed Saver—Diana Ott Whealey; Heirloom Seeds & Their Keepers—Virginia Nazarea; Renewing America’s Food Traditions, Coming Home To Eat, The Forgotten Pollinators, Desert Terroir, etc—Gary Nabhan; Seeds of Change: the Living Treasure—Kenny Ausubel; Seeds of Deception—Jeffrey Smith; Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering & the Future of Seeds—Claire Cummings; Putting It Up with Honey: A Natural Foods Canning & Preserving Cookbook—Susann Geiskopf-Hadler; From the Ground Up—Amy Stewart; Crop Rotation & Cover Cropping: Resiliency & Health on the Organic Farm—Seth Kroeck; Permaculture—Sepp Holzer; Natural Beekeeping—Ross Conrad & Gary Nabhan; The Organic Grain Grower—Jack Lazor; Farms with a Future—R Thistlewaithe & R Wiswall; Hungry Planet, Man Eating Bugs, What I Eat, Women in the Material World—Faith D’Aluzio & Peter Menzel; Mycelium Running–Paul Stammets.
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Tohon O’Odham Community Action (TOCA): an organization devoted to the preservation of native cultures and arts through education, programs, outreach; Bean Tree Farm: permaculture demonstration site and community on a 20-acre ironwood and saguaro forest site, with retreat lodge, classes, educational materials, local foods and natural building workshops; Arizona Native Plant Society; Sonoran Permaculture Guild (SPG): offers classes, certification courses, instructors; Desert Harvesters; Native Seeds/SEARCH; Tucson Herb Store: diverse assortment of self-care products including tea blends, tinctures, salve, bulk herbs, etc; Desert Survivor’s Plant Nursery; Plants of the Southwest; Mesquite Valley Growers; Tohono Chul Park: extensive grounds featuring Sonoran Desert and other drought and heat-tolerant plants, plant nursery, cacti and succulent displays, art gallery, classes, tea room, gift shop, historical buildings on site, ethnobotanical demonstration gardens; Santa Cruz Valley Heritage Alliance; Baja AZ Sustainable Agriculture (BASA); Sky Island Alliance; Desert Tortoise Botanicals; Tucson Herb Store; Tucson Botanical Gardens; FERN; Pima County Food System Alliance; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (ASDM); Sustainable Tucson.
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Edible Baja Arizona: a bi-monthly southern AZ magazine featuring local food producers, consumers, restaurants, and enthusiasts; Charlie Kane: Medicinal Plants of the Sonoran Desert, Sonoran Desert Food Plants; Kevin Dahl: Wild Foods of the Sonoran Desert, Native Harvest; Gary Nabhan: Gathering the Desert, The Desert Smells Like Rain, Coming Home to Eat, Ironwood, Desert Terroir; Wendy Hodgson: Food Plants of the Sonoran Desert; Carol Niethammer: American Indian Food and Lore, Cooking the Wild Southwest, The New Southwest Cookbook, The Tumbleweed Gourmet, American Indian Cooking, The Prickly Pear Cookbook; Rhea: At the Desert’s Green Edge; Hanson & Hanson: Sonoran Desert Almanac; Patricia Wentwrth Comus & Steven Phillips: A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert; Michael Moore: Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon West, Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West; Desert Harvesters: Eat Mesquite!; George Alcock: When the Rains Come, Sonoran Desert Summer, Sonoran Desert Spring; Sandal English: Fruits of the Desert; Rosenthal: Sonoran Desert Life; Cornett: Indian Uses of Desert Plants; Hesse: Southwest Indian Recipe Book; Ruth Underhill: Papago & Pima Indians of Arizona, Papago Woman; Olin: House in the Sun; Susan Tweit: Seasons in the Desert; Venning: Cacti: A Golden Guide; Turner: Sonoran Desert Plants; San Pedro Mesquite Company: Mesquite Meal Recipes.
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The Canelo Project; Black Range Productions; Development Center for Appropriate Technology (DCAT); Cob Cottage Company; Taliesen West; Institute for Solar Living; Solar Energy International; Heartwood School; Yestermorrow Design/Build School; Fox Maple School of Traditional Building; US Green Building Council; Traditional Building Skills Institute; The American College of Building Arts; The Preservation Trades Network; Log Cabin Connection.
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Christopher Alexander: A Pattern Language; Barbara Jones: Building with Straw Bales: A Practical Guide for the UK and Ireland; Lloyd Kahn: Shelter; Steen, Steen, Bainbridge: The Straw Bale House Book; Catherine Wanek: The New Straw-Bale Home; Steen & Steen: Small Straw-Bale Houses, Earthen Floors, Lime and Earth Plasters, Natural Paints and Wall Finishes, Built by Hand (with Eiko Komatsu); Becky Bee: The Cob Builder’s Handbook, You Can Build the Best Hot Tub Ever!; Joe Tibbetts: Earth Builder’s Encyclopedia; Jean-Louis Bourgeois & Carolee Pecos: Spectacular Vernacular; Shay Salomon & Nigel Valdez: Little House on a Small Planet; Michael Smith: Cobber’s Companion; Day: Places of the Soul; Matts Myhrman & Steve MacDonald: Build It with Bales; Bruce King: Buildings of Earth and Straw; Joseph Kennedy: Building Without Borders, The Art of Natural Building; Carol Crews: Clay Culture: Plasters, Paints, & Preservation; Cedar Rose Guelberth & Dan Chiras: The Natural Plaster Book; Dan Chiras: The Natural House, Superbia! (with Dave Wahn); Keely Meagan: Earth Plasters for Staw-Bale Homes; Robert LaPorte: Mooseprints, Econest (with Paula LaPorte); David Easton: The Rammed Earth House; Ianto Evans, Linda Smiley, & Michael Smith: The Hand-Sculpted House; David Pearson: Designing Your Natural Home, Earth to Spirit; Rob Roy: Cordwood Building, Cordwood Masonry Housebuilding; Doni Kiffmeyer & Kaki Hunter: Earthbag Building; Jenkins: The Humanure Handbook; Van Der Ryn: The Integral Urban Home, Ecological Design, The Toilet papers; Art Ludwig: Water Storage, Builder’s Greywater Guide, Create an Oasis with Greywater; Ian McHarg: Design with Nature; John & Nancy Todd: Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming: Ecology as the Basis of Design, The Village as Solar Ecology, Reinhabiting Cities and Towns, Tomorrow Is Our Permanent Address, From Eco-Cities to Living Machines; Mike Reynolds: Earthship 1, 2, 3; Michael Potts: The Independent Home; David Eisenberg: Straw-Bale Construction and the Building Codes; Lynn Elizabeth & Cassandra Adams: Alternative Construction: Contemporary Natural Building Methods; Jacob Deva Racusin & Ace McArleton: The Natural Building Companion; Kelly Coyne: The Urban Homestead; Adam Weisman: Using Natural Finishes; Christopher Nyerges: The Self-Sufficient Home; Johan van Lengen: The Barefoot Architect; Diane Leafe Christian: Creating a Life Together; Stephen & Rebekah Hren: The Carbon-Free Home; Tom Woolley: Natural Building: A Guide to Materials and Methods; Thomas Elpel: Living Homes; Steve Allin: Building with Hemp; Clarke Snell: The Good House, Building Green; Paul Lacinski & Michel Bergeron: Serious Straw Bale; Chris Magwood: More Straw Bale Building; Steve Kemble & Carol Escott: How To Build Your Elegant Home with Straw Bales; Ted Owens: Building with Awareness; Kelly Lerner & Pamela Wadsworth Goode: The Building Official’s Guide to Straw-Bale Construction; Ken Haggard & Scott Clark: Straw Bale Construction Details; Laura & Alex Sanchez: Adobe Houses for Today; Kiko Denzer: Build Your Own Earth Oven; Paula Baker, Erica Elliot, & John Banta: Prescriptions for a Healthy House; Alex Wilson & Mark Peipkorn: Green Building Products; Carolyn Roberts: A House of Straw; John Taylor: The Shelter Sketchbook; Fox Maple School of Traditional Building: The Alternative Building Sourcebook, A Timber Framer’s Workshop; Daniel Imhoff: Building with Vision: Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood; Malcolm Wells: The Earth-Sheltered House; Carol Steinfeld: Liquid Gold; David Lyle: The Book of Masonry Stoves; David Farrelly: The Book of Bamboo; Simon Velez: Grow Your Own House.
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Harbin Hot Springs/School of Shiatsu and Massage; Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association (WABA); Esalen Institute; Santa Rita Springs (Tucson, AZ).
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Harold Dull: Freeing the Body in Water; Nathaniel Altman: Healing Springs: The Ultimate Guide to Taking the Waters; Jason Loams: Hot Springs & Pools of the Southwest, Hot Springs & Pools of the Northwest; Bill & Ruth Kaysing: Great Hot Springs of the West; Craig Martin: Enchanted Waters: A Guide to New Mexico’s Hot Springs; Doug Roloff: Complete Guide to Idaho Hot Springs; Mike Nelson: Spas & Hot Springs of Mexico; Rick Cahill: Colorado Hot Springs Guide; Glenn Woodsworth: Hot Springs of Western Canada; Jeff Birkby: Touring Hot Springs in Montana & Wyoming; Matt Bischoff: Touring Hot Springs in California & Nevada; Jesse Love: Hot Springs of Western Washington.
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North American Sea Glass Association (NASGA); California Sea Glass Association; Northeast Sea Glass Society; Surfrider Foundation.
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Shorelines newsletter; Pure Seaglass by Richard LaMott.
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