Self Sufficient Reading List?

[k0xxx]

With the days getting shorter I will have more time for reading, so I'm wondering what your recommendations would be, relating to self sufficiency.

Currently my little library consists of:

The Encyclopedia of Country Living ( of course )
Living on a Few Acres
Foxfire series (1 - 9)
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens

Any suggestions for over-winter reading?

Thanks,
Mark

 

[keljonma]

I try to find books in the library system so I can read them to determine if they are worthy of taking up space on my bookshelf.... These aren't in any particular order....

The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden by Kim Flottum

Home Farm: A Practical Guide to the Good Life by Paul Heiney

Country Life: A Handbook for Realists and Dreamers by Paul Heiney

How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency by Piers Warren

Today's Homestead by Dona Grant

100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden by Carolyn J Male

Backyard Poultry Naturally by Alanna Moore

Small-Scale Grain Raising by Gene Logsdon

All Flesh is Grass: Pleasures & Promises of Pasture Farming by Gene Logsdon

Living at Nature's Pace: Farming & the American Dream by Gene Logsdon

The Self-sufficient Life and How to Live It by John Seymour

Herbal Handbook for Farm & Stable by Juliette de Bairacli-Levy

The Wild Lawn Handbook: Alternatives to the Traditional Front Lawn by Stevie Daniels

 

[Zenbirder]

If you grow food it's a good idea to know new ways to cook natural foods. I cook very differently from how I was raised, and am still experimenting, learning, and changing how I feed our family. My most used books from the kitchen shelf are:

Stocking Up, Rodale Press

Putting Food By, Hertzberg, Vaughan & Greene

Rodale's Complete Book of Home Freezing, Hodges

Carla Emery's Old Fashioned Recipe Book
(Much more than a cookbook, an encyclopedia of country living)

Laurel's Kitchen, Robertson

Passionate Vegetarian, Dragonwagon
(a huge book great even for non vegetarians)

Vegan Vittles, Stepaniak
(I'm not vegan, but this book is so innovative that I find I use a lot of the techniques)

 

[MorelCabin]

If you go to MotherEarthNEws bookstore they have some really good reading there

 

[annmarie]

I just subscribed to Countryside Magazine, so I plan on studying them cover to cover as they arrive. I'm planning my list to Santa based on some of the suggestions I received on an earlier positing about good SS books. If anyone reads something they're particularly impressed with this winter, please pass the suggestions along!

 

[Beekissed]

I just subscribed to Countryside Magazine, so I plan on studying them cover to cover as they arrive. I'm planning my list to Santa based on some of the suggestions I received on an earlier positing about good SS books. If anyone reads something they're particularly impressed with this winter, please pass the suggestions along!

In every CS mag there is a page or two devoted to books of this kind on nearly every subject you could want. Such a neat mag!

 

[dacjohns]

These aren't really how to books but I think are good reading related to self sufficiency.

Animal, Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

 

[Wildsky]

I'll second the Omnivores Dilemma.

 

[Homesteadmom]

Frugal gardening from Rodale press.

 

[Zenbirder]

Frugal gardening from Rodale press.

Thanks! I just ordered a used hardcover for 0.41 cents plus 3.99 shipping from Amazon used books.