Saturday, March 5, 2011

Day 15: Homesteading Book List

Gardening:

All New Square Foot Gardening
Mel Bartholomew
Cool Springs Press

Companion Planting:
Everything You Need to Know to Make Your Garden Successful
Dale Meyer
Atlantic publishing Group, Inc.

Root Cellaring:
Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables
Mike and Nancy Bubel
Storey Publishing

Seed to Seed:
Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners
Suzanne Ashworth
Chelsea Green Publ. Co.

How to Grow More Vegetables*
(and Fruit, Nuts, Grains, and Other Crops)
*Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine
John Jeavons
10 Speed Press


Animal Husbandry:

Chickens in Your Backyard:
A Beginner's Guide
Rick and Gail Luttmann
Rodale

Keeping Chickens
(Self-Sufficiency Series)
Michael Hatcher
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Barnyard in Your Backyard:
A Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Rabbits, Goats, Sheep and Cattle
Ed. by Gail Damerow
Storey Publishing

The Hive and the Honeybee
Ed. by Dadant & Sons
Dadant Publications


General Self-Sufficiency:

The Backyard Homestead
Ed. by Carleen Madigan
Storey Publishing

Back to Basics:
A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills
Ed. by Abigail R. Gehring
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Self-Sufficiency For the 21st Century
Dick & James Strawbridge
DK


Food Preservation:

Cheesemaking
(Self-Sufficiency Series)
Rita Ash
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Putting Food By
Janet Greene, Ruth Hertzberg and Beatrice Vaughan
Plume (Penguin)

Independence Days:
A Guide to Sustainable Food Storage and Preservation
Sharon Astyk
New Society Publishers

Charcuterie:
The Craft of Salting, Smoking and Curing
Michael Ruhlman & Brian Polcyn
W. W. Norton


Miscellaneous:

Good Meat:
The Complete Guide to Sourcing and Cooking Sustainable Meat
Deborah Krasner
Stewart, Tabori and Chang

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