A while back on one of the (too) many email lists I'm on, there was a thread about what kinds of reference books we had on our shelves. Bookhound that I am, mine were too numerous to even consider listing off the top of my head, but I promised to pull together a blog post with a comprehensive list. I think this pretty much covers it, but considering that I have books stashed in multiple corners of my home, there may be some left out. I'll add them as I find them.
Animal Husbandry:
Raising Chickens
Raising Dairy Goats
Raising Pigs
Raising Sheep
Raising Turkeys
Your Goats
Pastured Poultry Profits
Raising Poultry Successfully
Raising Milk Goats Successfully
Keeping a Family Cow
The Family Cow
Small Scale Livestock Farming
All Flesh is Grass
The Backyard Beekeeper
Natural Beekeeping
Gardening:
The Four Season Garden
The New Organic Grower
Seed to Seed
The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control
Gardening with Heirloom Seeds
Great Garden Companions
How to Grow More Vegetables and Fruits
General:
The Encyclopedia of Country Living
Country Wisdom and Know-How
Handy Devices and How to Make Them
You Can Farm
Making Your Small Farm Profitable
Herbal:
A Handbook of Native American Herbs
Making Plant Medicine
Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook
Herbal Remedies
The Backyard Medicine Chest
Holistic Herbal
Peterson's Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs
The Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm and Stable
Homeopathic Care for Cats and Dogs
Kitchen:
Basic Butchering
Putting Food By
Ball Blue Book of Preserving
Preserving the Harvest
Preserving Summer's Bounty
Root Cellaring
The River Cottage Meat Book
Charcuterie
Nourishing Traditions
Wild Fermentation
Home Cheese Making
Skills:
Spinning in the Old Way
Foxfire v.1-3
Home Brewing
Modern Reloading
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Part farm journal, part spiritual journey, Touch the Earth Farm blog chronicles one family's adventure of living with the land.
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Enter Summer
Intro:
We are a family of five: myself, my husband and our three children, ages 11, 10 and 9, homesteading on 5.25 acres in the Northwestern Mountain Region of Maryland (zone 6b). Our land is home to many creatures, and our goals are to farm sustainably, to preserve biodiversity by growing heirloom plants and raising rare breeds of livestock and poultry, and to foster native habitats. The kids and I run a small CSA, which keeps us busy learning and playing.
July:
- seed starts for fall √
- continue succession planting √
- transplant seedlings √
- weed market garden √
- sell calf
Post Perusal:
- Ahimsa, or the ethics of meat eating
- Confronting My Own Hypocrisy
- Crude Awakening, or Preparing for Peak Oil
- From Foodie to Farmer
- Please Pass the Bubblewrap
- Food Security Series:
- Part I, pantry
- Part II, freezer
- Part III, growing
- Part IV, seed saving
- Sustainability series:
- Consumption
- Food
- Gasoline
- Electricity
- Waste
- Water
- Low Carbon Diet:
- Dumping on Garbage
- Reducing Hot Water Usage
Nightstand Reading:
To Do 2009:
blurb blogsbuy CSA bags- buy buck
- buy ram
- community outreach
- composting toilet
- continue making more hard cheeses
- fence in yard
financials for 2008- finish basement rooms
- learn to graft fruit trees
- keep better records
- learn to make goat's milk soap
- learn to tan hides
- learn to make tinctures and infusions
- make Navajo spindles
order more beehive equipmentorder seeds- organize saved seeds
- pasture water source
- plan cover crop and garden rotation
plant front medicinal garden- ramp up piglet marketing
- save seeds
- shear sheep √
- start seeds
- upload and order photos
- well pump
Tools for 2009:
aquarain water filter- bike
- candle molds
- canoe
- compost tea bubbler
- dutch oven
- Foxfire series
- garden tools √
- generator
- hand-pump or solar well
kill-a-watt- incubator
- livestock trailer
- mortar and pestle
- Nutrimill grain mill
- sausage stuffer
- soap molds
- tanning tools and guides
Pipedreams:
- 100 acres
- Biodiesel: tractor and farm truck
Cookstove- Jim: work from home flextime
- Solar hot water heater
- Solar panels on south-facing barn
- Strawbale home
- Yurt
Index:
- awards (2)
- bees (2)
- book reviews (4)
- bread (1)
- cats (4)
- cheese (2)
- csa (16)
- dark days challenge (19)
- family cow (9)
- farm to table (37)
- food for thought (48)
- food security (5)
- garden (43)
- giveaways (2)
- goals (29)
- goats (5)
- hubris (2)
- independence days (21)
- kitchen (10)
- library (1)
- livestock (46)
- low carbon diet (2)
- miscellaneous (13)
- one local summer (12)
- ongoing education (8)
- pantry (3)
- pigs (5)
- recipes (12)
- sheep (5)
- sustainability (29)
- to do (4)
- weather (10)
Blog Archive:
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June
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- Fuzzy Little Doelings
- Simple Living the Easy Way, Part II*
- Independence Days Week 9
- One Local Summer: Week 4
- Simple Living the Easy Way
- Independence Days Week 8
- One Local Summer: Week 3
- Library
- Independence Days Week 7
- One Local Summer: Week 2
- This week's CSA Share
- Review of World Made By Hand
- Independence Days Week 6
- A Cow by Any Other Name...
- Independence Days Week 5
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- Casaubon's Book
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- Dancing in a Field of Tansy
- Dirt Under My Nails
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- Free Range Living
- Going Whole Hog
- Green with a Gun
- Green, Blue, Brown
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- Home Is...
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- It Blows Here
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- Living the Frugal Life
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- The Purloined Letter
- Throwback at Trapper Creek
- Tyler Farm Homestead
- Unusually Unusual Farmchick
- Urban Hennery
- Wisdom of the Trowel
- Woody's Rocky Ridge
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- Casaubon's Book
- Chile Chews
- Crunchy Chicken
- Dog's Little Acre
- Eat Close to Home
- Farm Dreams
- Golden Acre Lives On
- Happily Home
- Hedges Happenings
- Justice Desserts
- Kaleidescope Living
- Life in the Lost World
- Naturally Simple
- Perry Hill Farm
- Red State Green
- Seeking Simplicity
- Stepwise
- The Potager
- The Zahn Zone
- Waste Wear Daily
- Where's Your Line
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8 comments:
I see you finally got the Foxfire books (or at least the first 3). I was gifted them last winter from a hippie relation who was back-to-the-land for a while, that, and some Whole Earth catalogs. I have a kitchen book you might like, especially with your access to whey: it's called Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning, and it's filled with all kinds of interesting old-school ways of putting things by.
Great list Danielle! Isn't it fun. I *love* the RC Meat book.
With the exception of the 'Skills' section, I own every single book you listed - how weird is that?
We run the book sales at the Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference every year, so I have great access (at wholesale prices!) to all sorts of farming books.
Great list & great minds think/ read alike, right?
Have a great day.
El, these are actually the originals that I grew up with, and they're so delicate that I hate to thumb through them. I used to love looking through them as a kid, and I remember, in particular, being fascinated by the section on carding and spinning wool.
Thanks for the recommendations—I'll definitely check them out.
Ahhhh, but Angie, the question isn't what you have that's the same, but what do you have that I *don't*. ;) I love, love, love getting new books! I feed my habit through the Discover card cash back bonus. We put our gas and other purchases on the Discover card, pay it off every month and get free books. Yay!
I think The Encyclopedia of Country Living is one of the best books EVER. I think there's a cookbook that goes with it too....
I had the entire Foxfire set at one time and passed it on years ago. (kicking self)
That is quite a list. I am going to print it of and put it in my farm notebook to refer to in the future when I am looking for some good books on farming etc.
Thanks for sharing, Kim
WOW! What a fantastic library you have. We are just in the begining stages of getting our garden going. Next year will be so much fun out there. We live in town so we are limited in what we can do, but with every trip to the grocery store we make more plans for gardening. Love your blog!
What a great list. I'd love to hear about which ones are your favorites and why sometime when you have lots of time. Now: off to the library to try to find some of the ones I have not read!
What a great list! I'll be referring back to it as I build my library. Mine is coming along but not nearly as extensive.
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