Required Reading: Read before the Workshop, and bring with you:

• How to Grow More Vegetables, 7th ed., 2006
• The Sustainable Vegetable Garden
• EA Booklet #14: The Complete 21-Bed Biointensive Mini-Farm
• EA Booklet #26: Learning How to Grow All Your Own Food

Recommended Reading:

• One Circle (especially pp. i-vi, 1-72, 125-128)
• EA Booklet #32: GROW BIOINTENSIVE Composting and Growing Compost Materials

Optional Reading:

Practical Perspective: 

• The Backyard Homestead, Mini-Farm and Garden Log Book

Diet / Compost / Income:

• EA Booklet #15: One Basic Mexican Diet
• EA Booklet #25: One Basic Kenyan Diet
• EA Booklet #28: The Smallest Possible Area to Grow Food and Feed

Compost Materials / Carbon:

• EA Booklet #12: Growing and Gathering Your Own Fertilizer

Research Perspective:

• EA Booklet #1: Cucumber Bonanza

Saving Seeds:

• EA Booklet #13: Growing to Seed (rev. ed. 1999)

Flowers:

• EA Booklet #18: Cut, Dried and Edible Flowers for Income, Pleasure and Taste
  

Transforming Human Waste:

• Future Fertility

Fertility:

• EA Booklet #29: Test Your Soil with Plants!
  

Questions To Ask When Beginning To Farm:

• EA Personal Booklet #1: Another Way to Wealth

Teacher Training:

• EA Booklet #30: GROW BIOINTENSIVE Sustainable Mini-Farming: Teacher-Training and Certification Program