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Gardening Tools

The Meadow Creature Broadfork

The Hoss Wheel Hoe

The Rogue Cotton Hoe

The Weed Dragon Weed Torch

The Tramontina Machete

DeWitt Sunbelt Professional Weed Block

Opinel pocket knives

Root Slayer Shovel

YouTube Camera Gear

Canon R6 full-frame digital video/still camera

Sennheizer Shotgun Mic and camera mount

David The Good Books

Grow Or Die: The Good Guide to Survival Gardening

Compost Everything: The Good Guide to Extreme Composting

Push the Zone: The Good Guide to Growing Tropical Plants Beyond the Tropics

Free Plants for Everyone: The Good Guide to Plant Propagation

Grocery Row Gardening

How to Start Your Own Home-Based Plant Nursery

Totally Crazy Easy Florida Gardening

Florida Survival Gardening (NOTE: Amazon has this book incorrectly listed as a “previous version of Create Your Own Florida Food Forest.” It is not – it’s a standalone book on maximum food production in Florida)

Create Your Own Florida Food Forest (2nd Edition)

The South Florida Gardening Survival Guide

Turned Earth: A Jack Broccoli Novel

Garden Heat: A Jack Broccoli Novel

Other Recommended Gardening and Farming Books

Botany in a Day by Thomas J. Elpel

Born Again Dirt by Noah Sanders

Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties by Carol Deppe

Eat the Weeds by Green Deane

Roots Demystified by Robert Kourik

Beautiful Corn by Anthony Boutard

Winning the War on Weeds by John Moody

You Can Farm by Joel Salatin

The Planet Whizbang Idea Book for Gardeners by Herrick Kimball

Perennial Vegetables by Eric Toensmeier

Gaia’s Garden: A Guide To Homescale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway

All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Batholomew

Gardening Without Irrigation by Steve Solomon

How To Grow More Vegetables by John Jeavons

Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture

Teaming With Microbes by Jeff Lowenfels

Mini-Farming: Self Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre by Brett Markham

Joy of Gardening by Dick Raymond

The Resilient Gardener by Carol Deppe

Gardening Without Work by Ruth Stout

Small-Scale Grain Raising by Gene Logsdon

Edible Landscaping by Rosalind Creasy

Seed To Seed by Suzanne Ashworth

The Intelligent Gardener by Steve Solomon

Creating a Forest Garden: Working With Nature To Grow Edible Crops by Martin Crawford

Create an Oasis With Greywater

Paradise Lot by Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates

Mushroom Foraging Books

All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms by David Arora

Mushrooms Demystified by David Arora

100 Edible Mushrooms by Michael Kuo

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms (National Audubon Society Field Guides) by Gary Lincoff

The Complete Mushroom Hunter by Gary Lincoff

Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets

Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation by Tradd Cotter

Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms by Paul Stamets

Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of New England and Eastern Canada by David Spahr

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