Healthy Soil --> Nutritious Food --> Healthy People

AMAZING resource!!

"This website provides a large number of free e-books available for immediate download. The books are mainly about holistic agriculture, holistic health and self-sufficient homestead living."

"The Free Digitalized Library:

There are four major subject areas:

Radical Agriculture. The nutritional qualites of food and consequently the health of the animals and humans eating that food are determined by soil fertility. This section's interest is far wider than organic gardening and farming; other health-determined approaches to food-raising are also included. Go to the Agriculture Library

The Restoration and Maintenance of Health. Nutritional medicine heals disease, builds and maintains health with diet—and sometimes heals with fasting or other forms of dietary restriction. There are many approaches represented in this collection. There is also a collection concerning longevity and nutritional anthropology. Go to the Health Library

Achieving Personal Sovereignty. Physical, mental, and spiritual health are linked to one's lifestyle. This collection focuses on liberating activities, especially homesteading and the skills it takes to do that—small-scale entrepreneuring, financial independence, frugality, and voluntary simplicity. There is also a collection of social criticism, especially from a back-to-the-land point of view. Go to the Personal Sovereignty Library

Achieving Spiritual Freedom. There are many seemingly-different self-betterment roads. The books in this collection seek to empower a person to effect their own development in an independent manner. Go to the Spiritual Freedom Library."

A lot of the library consists of digital copies of publications that are out of print. Amazing great stuff!! Like:

Biodynamics Journal. Published from various locations since 1941.
Soil And Health Library, in collaboration with BD Now, is working towards providing all issues of the American BD Journal. About 100 or so issues are available at this time and will be processed in the next months (as of January, 2008). Anyone possessing copies that do not appear in this collection are requested to lend or donate them for scanning. Issues download as PDFs of about 5 mb each. OUT OF PRINT.

Joseph A. Cocannouer. Weeds: Guardians of the Soil. Old Greenwich, Connecticut: The Devin-Adair Company, 1950.
Long a much admired title amongst holistic gardeners and homesteaders. Thanks due to Keith Addison, creator of the Journey To Forever website, for supplying this fine scan. Downloads as a PDF of 1.58 mb. OUT OF PRINT

Hills, Lawrence D. Russian Comfrey: A Hundred Tons an Acre of Stock or Compost for Farm, Garden or Smallholding. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1953.
The definitive and thoroughly referenced study of the growing, harvest and feeding results using all varieties of comfrey on numerous kinds of livestock and for making compost. Handsomely illustrated. Downloads as a single PDF file of 1.78 mb.Total time to prepare this book: 7 hours, 10 minutes. OUT OF PRINT.

Hopkins, Cyril G. The Farm That Won't Wear Out. Champaign, Ill, self-published, 1913.
Originally a series of four magazine articles appearing in The Country Gentleman, and later, responding to popular demand, published as a small book by the author himself. Explains in very few pages the way to achieve a permanent agriculture. PUBLIC DOMAIN

Jenks, Jorian. The Stuff Man's Made Of: The positive approach to health through nutrition. London: Faber and Faber, 1959.
Starting about the year 1920 new data made it increasingly clear that soil fertility, the nutritional qualities of food and the consequent health of animals and humans were tightly inter-linked. The people at the leading edge of these discoveries wrote the books found in the Soil and Health Library. Jenks' book organises and popularises these discoveries and introduces these discoverers, put them into perspective and supplies interesting titbits of gossip and side-lights on their lives and work. The Stuff Man's Made Of will be especially useful to someone newly interested in this area of study. Thanks to Dr. John Fielder who practices near Cairns, Queensland, for the lend of this book. Downloads as a PDF of about 675 kb. OUT OF PRINT

So much to read, so little time!!