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Wood chips: All of my wood chips are directly from arborists. Just call them one by one until finding one that wants to deliver free wood chips. Chipdrop was a waste of time in my experience - 3 years without a single delivery.
Hay: allhay.com: "Buy and sell hay nationwide."

I've used allhay.com to get lots of small square bales of hay starting in 2020. Happy with whole process. Also have gotten lots of free hay from craigslist.

Arborists

Here is a list of licensed arborists in Fort Collins. Of these I've had work done by the following companies:

Mountview Tree Experts took down a large honeylocust with a sketchy y-crotch shape for me, providing firewood and more importantly, opening up space for more productive plants and trees. Jason did the site visit and work. He did a fantastic, quick and skillful job and we had a couple great conversations. Extremely competitive pricing. Really glad I picked him to do the job and enthusiastically recommend him to anyone.
Norman's Expert Tree Care took down a large wild apricot tree that was shading solar panels and taking up space without producing fruit. They got it down safely even without damaging some small tender trees I was sure would be damaged or killed, which was impressive. Extremely competitive bid. It's obvious that Norman genuinely cares about trees. Give them a call!
Diamond Tree Company, which pruned a front yard silver maple tree. Reggie did the work as well as the site visit, and it was also great talking to him about my trees. The maple looks stunning now and grew to monstrous size the year after, casting the house in afternoon shade!
Fine Tree Service, which took down a backyard green ash tree and grinded the stump, and removed a large branch of a neighbor's Siberian elm overhanging my garage. Very happy with the work, and Josh (the owner) was great to talk to when he did the site visit. Update: they pruned 2 neighbor trees and quickly and skillfully removed 2 neighbor trees, including a colossal Cottonwood. Very impressed.
Lumber Jack and Jill, which pruned a large mature apricot tree, cut down a spruce and a dead honeylocust, cut and removed a dead and diseased honeylocust, and grinded some stumps. This work was over two visits in different years. The apricot looks beautiful after pruning.
Honorable mention: Wisdom Tree Care has delivered a bunch of wood chips to me and I've always been happy talking to them over the phone and in person.
Honorable mention: Foothills Tree Experts did some work at a neighbor's house (pruning and removal) and I talked to them. They were friendly and professional and gave me some logs. Based on what I saw I'd definitely be comfortable with them doing tree work for me.

I'm happy with the work done by these companies and would gladly do business with them again.

Plant and tree sellers

Colorado Hardy Plants: Cedaredge, Western Colorado. Ordered September 2022, received plants quickly. Best packaging I've ever seen. Also ordered for April 2023 shipping. Excellent, healthy, locally-appropriate plants. Hart, the owner, is great to talk to. Awesome nursery!
Fort Collins Wholesale Nursery: Fort Collins, Colorado. I haven't bought directly from them but I bought a couple nice Crandall Clove currants that were apparently sourced from them. They don't appear to sell to the public.
Colorado State Forest Service Seedling Tree Nursery: Fort Collins, Colorado. First order of trees in 2020, very happy! This is an awesome resource!!
Edible Acres: Finger Lakes, New York. Ordered for the first time in September 2020, for spring 2021 shipping. Very happy with them and full of admiration for what they do and how they do it. Be sure to check out their great Youtube videos!
Edgewood Nursery: Falmouth, Maine. Ordered for 2023, love their shipping and offerings. Excellent Youtube videos, wish they would make more.
Raintree Nursery: Morton, Washington. Excellent trees and top-quality product packaging. Had an overall bad experience with them in 2019, but a positive one in 2020. It's good to forgive and move forward.
Planting Justice: Oakland, California. Enormous selection with an admirable labor strategy. Will order in 2022/2023. UPDATE: ordered and had a bad experience. Ordered 2023-01-19, was refunded $28.80 on 2023-02-03 for an out of stock item, then was notified in April that due to a clerical error other items were unavailable, just decided to cancel the whole order. Not reliable. Order again as a last resort.
High Plains Environmental Center: Loveland, Colorado. Just found them, saving this for later.
One Green World: Portland, Oregon. I ordered 6 trees and 5 bushes from them in 2019 and am happy with everything. Good prices, good trees/bushes, good shipping, good customer service. Ordered again in 2020 and was happy with everything.
Fedco Trees: Clinton, Maine. I haven't yet ordered trees from them, but I've ordered seeds and bulbs and like Fedco a lot. Looking forward to buying trees from them.
A local nursery: bought 6 trees (in containers) in August 2018. Very expensive. Badly root bound, like a solid block of roots. But all survived winter in the ground. Got a handful of fruit in 2019. In 2020 they aren't showing the growth I'd expect of 3rd year trees. Rookie mistake lesson learned: get bare-root trees whenever possible (or grow your own native tree from cuttings).
Orange Pippin Fruit Trees: Ithaca, NY. Received 2 apple trees from them in April 2020, well packaged and appearing healthy. Good customer service communication. 100% chance I will buy from them again!

Seed sellers

Native Seeds: I ordered from them in 2020 for planting in 2021. Seems to be a great organization. They specialize in plants native or better adapted to the desert Southwest of the US. I'm trying their seeds because I want to reduce water usage and work with nature, planting things that like local conditions (like hot dry summers).
Fedco Seeds: I ordered from them in 2019 and will definitely order from them again!
Refining Fire Chiles seems like a fantastic chili pepper resource. They sell some dryland-adapted plants too!
High Mowing Seeds is liked by some people, haven't tried them yet.
Baker Creek Rare Seeds has rare varities, looks nice.

Books: Non-fiction

The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins. In addition to being the top resource on humanure, it's easily the best source of information on composting.
The Water-Wise Home by Laura Allen. This is an outstanding book on water conservation.
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster. An essential book on water, a teacher to many.
Balance Point by Joseph Jenkins. A one of a kind story.
The Compost Toilet Handbook by Joseph Jenkins. An excellent companion to The Humanure Handbook by the same author.
Being the Change by Peter Kalmus.
Dirt to Soil by Gabe Brown. Full of wisdom.
Drawdown, edited by Paul Hawken. The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming.
More books here.

Books: Fiction

Dune by Frank Herbert.
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi.
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Locally appropriate trees and plants

Here are some pointers to plants with minimal water needs, appropriate for the local environment.

Zone 2 plants and trees

Saving for future reference!

30 USDA Zone 2 Trees (Nut, Fruit, Flowering & Fast Growing) by Eliza Gail Tiongson

Biochar videos

Biochar reading

Soil Health videos

Greening / regenerating desert videos

Passive solar heating

Articles

Very new section!

I disconnected from the electric grid for 8 months—in Manhattan by JOSHUA SPODEK.
- See his website: Joshua Spodek: This Sustainable Life

Youtube videos

Israel's solution for a water-starved world | Seth M. Siegel | TEDxTelAvivSalon
Dryland harvesting home hacks sun, rain, food & surroundings: Brad Lancaster gives a tour of his permaculture home in Tuscon, Arizona.
FOOD SECURITY: Full Tour of Our Basement Grocery Store (plus tips!)
Bealtaine Cottage: This is What 13 Years of Permaculture in Ireland Looks Like!
Carl Sagan on climate change spending, from his Feb. 9, 1990 Keynote Speech at Emerging Issues Forum
Water harvesting principles & the story of an African rain farmer
How This Woman Transformed Desert Into Lush Forest!
To Squash Or Not To Squash - Musings On Invasive Species by Adam Haritan of Learn Your Land. This is an important and special commentary that goes way beyond so-called invasive species. Just sublime.

Container ship travel

Websites

Otherpower: Make Your Electricity From Scratch!
Geoff Lawton Offical Page
Low-tech Magazine
Build It Solar
Zero Input Agriculture is very interesting. Some favs:
Yale Climate Opinion Maps 2023
PV Tech
PV Magazine
energy.gov: Wind News
Heatmap News
Falling Fruit
Electricity Maps
Platte River Power Authority energy
Electrek — News about climate and electrification

Local weather

Some favorite non-permaculture people

Some of these people may practice permaculture but I don't want to put a label on someone that they don't use themselves.

Adam Haritan Pennsylvania
Haphazard Homestead Eugene, Oregon
@4x4electric
Wendi Phan Southern California
desertsun02 Phoenix, Arizona
Self Sufficient Me Australia
Kirsten Dirksen USA
Rob Greenfield USA
TheKiwiGrower New Zealand
James Prigioni New Jersey
Liziqi China
More Than Farmers Urbana, Ohio

Some favorite permaculture people

This section is mostly for permaculture people who regularly create new content. There are lots of people like Sepp Holzer who don't, so they aren't listed here. It doesn't mean I don't love 'em.

Edible Acres Finger Lakes, New York
Erin from Goldifarms Central Coast of California
Canadian Permaculture Legacy Ontario, Canada
The Weedy Garden Northern N.S.W, Australia
Bealtaine Cottage Ireland
Brad Lancaster Tucson, Arizona
Geoff Lawton Australia, Middle East, beyond

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