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Books/Homesteading
Searching for the means and knowledge to a more self-reliant lifestyle? Browse these titles to learn what your grandparents knew.
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Homesteading:

Mastering the Craft of Making Sausage
Pork or beef, poultry or game, cased or uncased sausages, this book offers complete instructions with notes on grinding, mixing, seasonings and ingredients, stuffing, curing and storage.

The Farmstead Creamery Advisor
This book goes far beyond the issues of caring for livestock and basic cheesemaking and into the real business of successfully creating high-quality, handmade artisanal cheeses right on the farm.

Butchering, Smoking, Curing & Sausage Making
This hands-on guide is essential for small-scale farmers, hunters and anyone wanting to prepare and provide your own meat for the dinner table without a trip to the supermarket.

The Complete Root Cellar Book
Featuring over 30 plans for root cellars of all types, vegetable and fruit storage tips and 100 recipes for nutritious dishes using ingredients from the root cellar.

Alcohol Fuel
A guide to small-scale ethanol production that looks at basic equipment needs, fermentation recipes and distillation designs for those wanting to make the switch from gasoline to this renewable fuel.

Alcohol Can Be A Gas
This is the most comprehensive text on alcohol production and use ever written.

American Farmstead Cheese
The complete guide to making and selling artisan cheeses.

Anyone Can Build a Tub-Style Mechanical Chicken Plucker
Complete Instructions for the Kimball Whizbang

Anyone Can Build A Whizbang Apple Grinder & Cider Press
Subtitled: Simple Plans For A Remarkably Productive Home-Scale Cidermaking System

Anyone Can Build a Whizbang Chicken Scalder
Complete instructions for plucking chickens.

Artisan Farming Lessons, Lore, and Recipes
Although the setting of this book is New Mexico, the tales of the small artisan farmer could happen anywhere, with the crop being anything. The lifestyle is unique.

Atlas of American Artisan Cheese, The
This book reveals the hand-crafted dairy trend is not confined to Vermont. The book represents the first effort by a foodie to chronicle every hand-made cheese source in the country.

Barns and Outbuildings & How to Build Them
Illustrations, floor plans and building instructions.

Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game
Butchering, preserving, equipment needed, recipes.

Bug Busters
At a time when literally thousands of adults and children are treated yearly for pesticide mishaps, Bug Busters provides important information for anyone who is concerned with safe and intelligent pest control.

Build A Smokehouse
Plans to build everything from a simple smoke box to a smokehouse.

Cheese and Cheese-Making, Butter and Milk
This 1896 work provides instruction on the manufacture of specific cheeses, especially gourmet cheese varieties usually produced in Europe.

Cheesemaking 101 Video DVD
Ricki Carroll's cheesemaking workshop on video.

Chefs on the Farm
Discover why Quillisascut, a tiny goat-cheese farm named for a nearby creek, is at the forefront of a national movement known as 'sustainable food'.

Cold-Smoking & Salt-Curing Meat, Fish, & Game
Authentic home smoking and curing techniques.

Country Folk Medicine
Tales of skunk oil, sassafras tea, and other old-time remedies

Country Wisdom & Know-How
Everything you need to know to live off the land.

Design for Water
Design for Water is an accessible and clearly written guide to alternate water collection.

Earth Ponds A to Z
A resource guide for building ponds.

Farm Machinery
Principles of mechanics, instructions to build & repair.

Farmer John's Cookbook
Stories, fresh insights and intriquing

Feast Your Eyes
The unexpected beauty of vegetable gardens.

Fences, Gates & Bridges & How to Build Them
Best methods for a variety of devices.

Five Acres & Independence
Evaluating potential land & small farm management.

Fresh Grown Customer Communications in Print
Direct mail, newsletters, & brochures: build customer loyalty & attract more customers

Fresh Grown Publicity
An easy guide to getting news coverage, even if you know nothing about public relations or writing!

From Asparagus to Zucchini
More than a cookbook featuring 420 recipes, this book also offers cooking and storage tips for 53 vegetables and herbs to make the most of local and seasonal produce.

Garden-Fresh Vegetable Cookbook
Andrea Chesman's recipes are a fresh take on the truly fresh. The informative chapters brim with gardening tips, helpful kitchen notes and inspiring stories.

Handy Farm Devices & How to Make Them
Instruction for labor- & money-saving projects.

Harvest
A year in the life of an organic farm.

Herb Mixtures & Spicy Blends
More than 100 recipes for seasonings that you can make at home.

Home Cheese Making
No-nonsense introduction to world of cheesemaking.

Home Remedies from Amish Country
Powerful time tested remedies.

Home Remedies II
These natural home remedies will save you thousands! Increase the productivity of your livestock. Make your own homemade cleaners. Learn how to control pests with homemade remedies.

Home Sausage Making
How-to techniques for making & enjoying sausages.

Home Smoking and Curing
How to smoke-cure meat, fish and game.

How to Direct Market Your Beef
Shows how one ranching couple used their family's ranch to launch a profitable operation.

How To Keep Your Classic Tractor Alive
If you are using your tractor to help on the farm. compete in the local pulls, or for show, this book has everything that you'll need to know to keep it in perfect running condition.

How to Store Your Garden Produce
How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency has been completely revised and is the modern guide to storing and preserving your garden produce, enabling you to eat home-grown goodness all year round.

Just In Case How To Be Self-Sufficient When the Unexpected Happens
When the power fails, prepared families settle in, stay warm, and eat well. Are you prepared?


Mastering the Craft of Making Sausage

Keeping the Harvest
Many methods of preserving fruits, vegetables, herbs.

Living on an Acre
A practical guide to the self-reliant life.

Living on the Earth
Wide-range compendium of country living skills.

Making & Using Dried Foods
Alternative to canning or freezing food.

Milk-Based Soaps
Fundamentals of making & marketing, recipes.

New Good Food
Consumers have never been more ready for a practical and well researched guide on organics, whole foods, and buying local. Offering one-stop advice, New Good Food is that book plus more.

Pickles & Relishes
A how to for preserving the harvest.

Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning
Old world preserving techniques and recipes.

Preserving the Harvest
Subtitled 150 Recipes for Freezing, Canning, Drying, and Pickling Fruits and Vegetables

Put 'em Up!
Organized by vegetable and showing step-by-step, kitchen-friendly preserving techniques for the beginner or seasoned expert and including 175 tempting recipes.

Recipes For Life
A collection of recipes that combine a love of good food and a raw food lifestyle.

Root Cellaring
Natural cold storage of fruits & vegetables.

Rural Renaissance
Renewing the quest for the good life.

Rustic Construction
Detailed and heavily illustrated, Rustic Construction offers clear and precise instruction for making attractive

Shelters, Shacks & Shanties & How to Build Them
Temporary or long-term; natural & man-made materials.

Small is Possible
Subtitled Life in a Local Economy this book paints a loving and evocative picture of a community where local needs meet with local resources.

Superbia!
The dream of creating sustainable cities is a noble and inspiring one, but the harsh reality is that most people live in the suburbs.

The Backyard Homestead
Enjoy fresher, organic, better-tasting food all the time. The solution is as close as your own backyard. The Backyard Homestead shows you how it’s done!

The Big Book of Self-Reliant Living
Advice and Information on Just About Everything You Need to Know to Live on Planet Earth

The Book of Cheese
Designed as a reference for the student and home cheese-maker, this 1918 book is intended to interpret the process of making and handling a variety of cheeses.

The Bread Builders
Natural leavens, baking science, masonry oven construction.

The Encyclopedia of Country Living
A guide to be entirely self sufficient.

The Fabrication of Farmstead Goat Cheese
Introduction to the art of goat cheesemaking.

The Farmer and the Grill
A Guide to Grilling, Barbecuing and Spit-Roasting Grassfed Meat and for saving the planet one bite at a time.

The Food of a Younger Land
A fascinating look at the role food plays in our history and culture from the days of the Great Depression. Featuring authentic recipes and many anecdotes.

The Humanure Handbook
Exploration & guide to composting toilets.

The Naturally Clean Home
The Naturally Clean Home makes it fun to mix up chemical-free products that are easy on home and planet!

The Niman Ranch Cookbook
Explores the development of a meal from farm to table.

The Operation, Care and Repair of Farm Machinery
Classic detailed use and care of early farm machines.

The Soapmaker's Companion
Complete process of soapmaking.

The Ultimate Guide to Skinning and Tanning
A how to guide for skinning and tanning.

The Whole Organic Food Book
Safe, healthy harvest from your garden to your plate.

The Winter Harvest Handbook
Gardeners and farmers can use the innovative, highly successful methods Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise crops throughout the coldest of winters.

Toolbox for Sustainable City Living
More than a how-to manual, Toolbox is packed with accessible and relevant tools to help move our communities from envisioning a sustainable future toward living it.

Traditional American Farming Techniques
A guide to all aspects of farming from The Golden Age of Agriculture.

Traditional Feeding of Farm Animals
The classic treatise - now back in print.

Uprisings — The Whole Grain Bakers' Book
Recipes from 18 bakeries; special dietary indexing.

When Technology Fails
Manual for self-reliant living and emergency survival.

Whole Foods Companion
A guide for adventurous cooks, curious shoppers, and lovers of natural foods

Wild Fermentation
The flavor, nutrition and craft of live-culture foods.

Wild Predators? Not in My Backyard!
This book provides sound advice and sensible strategies for farm operators seeking protection from many species of wild predators.











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