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Books and Apps

A listing of our Apps that are coming soon!

Rainwater Harvesting: Learn how a rainwater harvesting system works by building one step by step. This interactive app introduces system components, their functions, and basic design concepts in an approachable way for anyone interested in capturing and using rainwater.

Earthwicking: Nature Connection, Mindfulness, and Spiritual Reflection: Step outside and reconnect with the natural world through short, meaningful experiences. Earthwicking offers simple practices for nature connection and mindfulness, with an optional spiritual pathway that pairs time in nature with reflection and Scripture.

Family Vault: The Family Information Hub: Keep the important information your family needs in one simple, organized place. Family Vault helps households keep track of essential information for family members, children, school, pets, emergency contacts, and more, so it’s there when you need iit.

Meet Bill & Zip! Bill E. Goat, a curious mini goat, and his best friend Zip, a retired trick horse, lead children on personalized adventures that combine storytelling with real environmental science. Each adventure encourages curiosity, kindness, outdoor exploration, and a love of nature through age-appropriate discoveries and activities.

Coming in 2027:

Focus Squirrel™ — Get Back on Track: Focus Squirrel helps you pick up right where you left off when interruptions or competing projects pull you away. Simply snap a temporary picture to “stash” your place, return when you’re ready, and earn an acorn each time you successfully get back on track, turning everyday distractions into visible wins.

Published Titles

The Resilient Household Audit

This book provides a practical method for evaluating the systems that support your home, including shelter, water, food, energy, waste and human well-being. It helps you identify strengths, uncover vulnerabilities and take manageable steps toward a more resilient household.

Kindle and Paperback

Cascade Water Cycling

Cascade Water Cycling introduces a new way of thinking about water, not as something consumed, but as something continuously reassigned to its highest remaining value. While many frameworks promote water reuse, circular systems, and sustainability, they often stop short of explaining how water should actually move through real systems. This book fills that gap.

Coming Soon!

Companion Planting for Beginners

Discover how thoughtful plant pairings can support healthier growth, discourage pests and create a more productive garden. This beginner-friendly guide makes it easier to understand and use nature’s growing partnerships.

Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover

Greenhouse Gardening for Beginners

Learn how to select a greenhouse that fits your space, climate and growing goals. Practical guidance helps new gardeners extend the growing season, raise healthy plants and produce more food at home.

Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover

Resilient Raised Beds

Explore traditional raised beds, wicking beds, Hügelkultur, keyhole gardens and self-watering container systems. This practical guide helps readers choose and develop a growing system suited to their property, resources and gardening goals

Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover

Soil Science for Beginners

Build a practical understanding of soil health for greenhouses, containers, raised beds and regenerative no-till gardens. Readers learn how soil structure, compost and organic amendments work together to support healthier plants.

Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover

The Food Forest

Revolution

Learn how to create a productive, resilient landscape by applying permaculture principles and observing how natural ecosystems function. The book introduces beginners to food forests, sustainable gardening and interconnected plant communities.

Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover

The Garden

Compass

A comprehensive gardening journal for planning, tracking and improving different types of gardens. Its organized recordkeeping system helps gardeners recognize patterns, evaluate results and make better growing decisions from season to season.

Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover

Prepping for the Rest of Us: Self-Reliance Without the Panic

A practical, approachable guide to preparedness that focuses on useful skills and thoughtful planning rather than fear. Readers can strengthen household resilience gradually through realistic, manageable actions.

Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover

Design for

Water

A comprehensive guide to collecting, storing and reusing water across residential, commercial and community settings. It covers rainwater harvesting, stormwater reuse, graywater, filtration and passive and active water systems.

Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover

Forgotten Rain: Rediscovering Rainwater Harvesting

An award-winning introduction to the principles and practical value of rainwater harvesting. It helps readers reconsider rain as a valuable resource that can support landscapes, households and more resilient water systems.