SOme other books:
Foraging and Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook by Dina Falconi. (a beautiful book as well as a useful one. Pricey, but worth it). BotanicalArtsPress.com
Stocking Up III
Keeping a Family Cow – Joann Grohman
The Small-Scale Poultry Flock by Harvey Ussery
also his site: http://www.themodernhomestead.us/
The HOlistic Orchard – Micheal Phillips
Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning
Rosemary Gladstar Herbal remedy books
The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of NAtural Insect and Disease COntrol
Worms Eat My Garbage – MAry Appelhof
Let it Rot!
Small Scale Grain Raising – Gene Logsdon
Eliot COleman books
NAtural Goat Care – Pat Coleby
Gail Damerow chicken books
Some interesting ones I saw for future perusal:
Natural Beekeeping – Ross Conrad
Permaculture – Sepp Holzer
The Organic Grain Grower: Small-Scale, Holistic Grain Production for the Home and Market Producer – Jack Lazor
ONe area I have been particularly interested in is native plants: growing those that are uniquely native to my area and growing them instead of other, maybe more common, non-native crops. There’s less disease and upkeep. They are successful when weather gets weird. This past year, when we had a very strange summer, the best ones that performed were our Cherokee tomatoes, candy roaster squash, and muscadines and other native plants, including flowers.
For ex: sorghum. My grandma grew it on their farm for syrup production, but it can also be used as a chicken feed.
Just some thoughts…