Need Titles to New and Older Books about Homesteading, Smallhold Farming. Favorites?

01.25.10 | chickensoup

[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.

[Chickensoup]

Thank you

[MSF BU]

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.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Try the library.

[driftdiver]

http://www.lehmans.com/ has some good books

[Chickensoup]

Thank you

[LongElegantLegs]

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

[Chickensoup]

Our library carries mystery stories, children’s books, oh, and did I say mysteries?

[Nepeta]

Five Acres and Independence comes to mind.

[Chickensoup]

Sounds neat
thanks

[Rocko]

Five Acres and Independence: A Practical Guide to the Selection and Management of the Small Farm - M.G. Kains, Dover Publications.

[highlander_UW]

Here's another couple of places to start from:

http://www.homestead.org/

http://www.homesteadblogger.com/home.php

[Chickensoup]

I love Lehmans. I am also looking for essays, like EBWhite’s on his saltwater farm...

[dennisw]

old issues mother earth news....old issues rodales organic gardening magazine

[Chickensoup]

sounds just great!

[freemama]

bookmarked

[blue-duncan]

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.

[JRandomFreeper]

Foxfire books,

/johnny

[Poincare]

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.

[Colvin]

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.

[Chickensoup]

This is a nice list. Thank you