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Need Titles to New and Older Books about Homesteading, Smallhold Farming. Favorites?
01.25.10
| chickensoup
Posted on 01/25/2010 6:25:09 PM PST by Chickensoup
I am looking for recommendations for books and essays about smallhold farming and homesteading. Fun books and informative books. I love to read about what people do and have done. Please list your favorite. Alibris will be busy.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: farming; vanity
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Thank you
To: Chickensoup
I don't know if you're doing a survivalist type of thing but some writing of the late Mel Tappan touches on some of the subjects you mention, and heavily into firearms.
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posted on
01/25/2010 6:27:13 PM PST
by
MSF BU
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To: Chickensoup
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posted on
01/25/2010 6:27:54 PM PST
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
To: Chickensoup
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posted on
01/25/2010 6:28:01 PM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: MSF BU
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posted on
01/25/2010 6:28:30 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(We have the government we deserve. Is our government our traitor?)
To: Chickensoup
The Frugal American Housewife by Lydia Child.
Lots of interesting stuff in there, along with a few kooky things about using quicksilver to kill ants and stuff.
You can buy it on Amazon or read it for free at gutenberg.org
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posted on
01/25/2010 6:28:51 PM PST
by
LongElegantLegs
(Raise the fanged and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weaponed mistress...)
To: Mind-numbed Robot
Our library carries mystery stories, children’s books, oh, and did I say mysteries?
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posted on
01/25/2010 6:29:18 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(We have the government we deserve. Is our government our traitor?)
To: Chickensoup
Five Acres and Independence comes to mind.
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posted on
01/25/2010 6:29:22 PM PST
by
Nepeta
To: LongElegantLegs
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posted on
01/25/2010 6:29:51 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(We have the government we deserve. Is our government our traitor?)
To: Chickensoup
Five Acres and Independence: A Practical Guide to the Selection and Management of the Small Farm - M.G. Kains, Dover Publications.
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01/25/2010 6:30:03 PM PST
by
Rocko
To: Chickensoup
Here's another couple of places to start from:
http://www.homestead.org/
http://www.homesteadblogger.com/home.php
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posted on
01/25/2010 6:30:21 PM PST
by
highlander_UW
(There's a storm coming - little kid at a Mexican gas station in The Terminator)
To: driftdiver
I love Lehmans. I am also looking for essays, like EBWhite’s on his saltwater farm...
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posted on
01/25/2010 6:30:55 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(We have the government we deserve. Is our government our traitor?)
To: Chickensoup
old issues mother earth news....old issues rodales organic gardening magazine
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posted on
01/25/2010 6:32:30 PM PST
by
dennisw
(It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
To: Nepeta
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posted on
01/25/2010 6:33:07 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(We have the government we deserve. Is our government our traitor?)
To: Chickensoup
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posted on
01/25/2010 6:33:58 PM PST
by
freemama
To: Chickensoup
These books are all good references and drawn from the Firefox magazine.
The Foxfire Book, 1972, Anchor. ISBN 0-385-07353-4
Foxfire 2, 1973, Anchor. ISBN 0-385-02267-0
Foxfire 3, 1975, Anchor. ISBN 0-385-02272-7
Foxfire 4, 1977, Anchor. ISBN 0-385-12087-7
Foxfire 5, 1979, Anchor. ISBN 0-385-14308-7
Foxfire 6, 1980, Anchor. ISBN 0-385-15272-8
Foxfire 7, 1982, Anchor. ISBN 0-385-15243-4
Foxfire 8, 1984, Anchor. ISBN 0-385-17741-0
Foxfire 9, 1986, Anchor. ISBN 0-385-17743-7
Foxfire 10, 1993, Anchor. ISBN 0-385-42276-8
Foxfire 11, 1999, Anchor. ISBN 0-385-49461-0
Foxfire 12, 2004, Anchor. ISBN 1-4000-3261-X.
To: Chickensoup
To: Chickensoup
You gotta check out The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery.
Also books by Joel Salatin notably “You can Farm” and “Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal”.
There are thousands of others.
Thomas Jefferson said that if our Republic was to survive that at least 25 percent of the population must be farmers on the land.
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posted on
01/25/2010 6:36:16 PM PST
by
Poincare
To: Chickensoup
It really depends on your plans.
My favorite books are “The Apple Grower”, but that is because we are planning on an orchard.
There are a lot of good cheap books on Pigs and Chickens. I have found them to have good returns.
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posted on
01/25/2010 6:37:25 PM PST
by
Colvin
(Proud Owner '66 Binder PU, '66 Binder Travelall,)
To: Poincare
This is a nice list. Thank you
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posted on
01/25/2010 6:38:53 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(We have the government we deserve. Is our government our traitor?)
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