[Susquehanna-Homestead]

My Favorite Homesteading/Small Farming Books: The Backyard Homestead, The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals, The Independent Farmstead, The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens, Keeping a Family Cow, The Small-Scale Poultry Flock, The Foxfire Books, (Joel Salatin’s books: Polyface Micro, You Can Farm, Pastured Poultry Profits), 5 Acres and Independence

[Hippocrates_Garden]

Wow. how much disk space does this site have?
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In no particular order

Finding the Mother Tree – Gaining at least an insight into the importance of not clear-cutting, that trees actually talk to each other, alert each other and actually feed each other via the fungal partners. To the degree they appear to help other species of trees and can not only recognize others of the same species, but appear to be able to “recognize” their own progeny, and are able to divert more to those than others.

The Black Swan – gaining an insight into the fact that many, if not most of the really revolutionary changes in society, could not have been truly predicted, and remembering, there are no “known” things in science, one data point can blow what is “known” out of the water. for instance, it was once “known” that all swans are white…. until someone found a black swan.

Food: A cultural Culinary History

Dirt (by David R. Montgomery”

Gaining Ground (Forrest Pritchard)

Locally Laid (Lucie B Amundsen)

The Hidden Half of Nature (David R. Montgomery)

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral ( Barbara Kingsolver)

Farmacology (Daphne Miller MD)

The Unsettling of America ( Wendell Berry)

The Social History of Agriculture (Christopher Isett)

Defending Beef ( Nicolette Hahn Niman)

Weapons of Mass Instruction & Dumbing us Down (John Taylor Gatto)

The Dirty Life ( Kristin Kimball)

Water for any Farm (Mark Shepard)

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And that’s just a portion from my phone’s Audible library. I’ve got well over a hundred books on there

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[Grampa-J]

Some cool books that I need to check out

[AnnS]

Interesting list.! The John Taylor Gatto book I always recommend is THE UNDERGROUND HISTORY OF AMERICAN EDUCATION.

[Squashmania]

I would love to walk around in your brain.

Bees- Honeybee Democracy (Thomas Seeley)

Keeping Bees With a Smile (Fedor Lazutin)

Donkeys – The Donkey Companion (Sue Weaver)

Walking with Henry (Rachel Anne Ridge)

Seed saving- Seed To Seed (Suzanne Ashworth)

The Earth Sheltered Solar Greenhouse (Mike Oehler)

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[JesusIsOurSaviour]

• “How To Survive The End Of The World As We Know It.” // Author: James Wesley Rawles

( Also founder and editor of Survival.Blog.com )

[JesusIsOurSaviour]

https://survivalblog.com/writings/

Tons of interesting books on worldly events and biblical prophecy. Applying how-to’s and easy to understand reads. Lots of useful information regarding homesteading, emergency preparedness, food and water storage, etc. Knowledge is power.

[kaypea]

Interesting…thanks

[JesusIsOurSaviour]

Glad to be useful. 😃 God bless you!

[BeeBon]

I was just thinking about James Rawls the other day and was trying to remember his website. Thanks for posting it.

[Squashmania]

The Small-Scale Poultry Flock by Harvey Ussery, foreword by Joel Salatin ©2011

This is a delightful read with cautionary tales, uplifting encouragement and wit and wisdom spawned from decades of being a “flockster”. Must read if you have feather heads, or want to get some. Inspirational and pleasant. I would vote for it twice,if I could🙂

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[kaypea]

Never read a Stephen King book. Is it an intense book? How’s the language?

[kaypea]

Thanks! You have been helpful! The subject of this book is very intriguing, if I can handle it…lol

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[Squashmania]

Yes! I am in love with Henry Bowman! I actually wrote a very sappy swooning letter to John, several years back, when he was still with us, and got a short but gracious reply. I could have framed it 😍🥰

An excellent dystopian future prepped book that has a bunch of prepping ideas is Molon Labe

(from the Greek response of king Leonidas to the Spartans. The Spartans were attacking the Greeks, and offered them to lay down their weapons and worship the Spartan leader, and no further death would come to them. King Leonidas’ response was Molon Labe…..come and take them)