The Challenge of Landscape
An illustration-filled practical farming textbook focused on water conservation, small-scale dam construction and gravity-fed irrigation projects. Especially useful for practicing sustainable rainfall-dependent farming.
The Keyline Plan
Recommends a unique method of plowing that helps the land soak up all rainfall, opens it to root penetration and greatly accelerates the release of plant nutrients.
The City Forest: The Keyline Plan for the Human Environment Revolution
This is a tiny book of barely 100 small pages having as much or more to do with city planning and landscape architecture on a macro-scale as it does with farming.
Dry Farming
American prairie farmers ignored Widtsoe's warnings, making the 1930s dust bowls inevitable. Provides insights that help grow vegetables with less or no irrigation.
Design and Construction of Small Earth Dams
K.D. Nelson spent 30 years working with water resources and consulting worldwide. His book provides a sound practical approach to investigating, designing and constructing small earth dams that do not fail. The book contains many detailed drawings and a few photos.
The Drought Myth: The Absence of Water Is Not The Problem
Explains that much of the apparency of moisture stress is subsoil infertility. Some have experienced that foliar feeding of apparently moisture-stressed crops will "cure" them.