 | The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $11.84 Awesome book! Several excerpts from other Storey books.
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 | Great Garden Companions: A Companion-Planting System for a Beautiful, Chemical-Free Vegetable Garden by Sally Jean Cunningham
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $9.48 Finally a book that makes sense of companion planting.
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 | All New Square Foot Gardening: Grow More in Less Space! by Mel Bartholomew
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $8.58 A new look at french-intensive planting to maximize your space.
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 | Home Cheese Making: Recipes for 75 Delicious Cheeses by Ricki Carroll
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $8.75 THE book for cheese making.
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 | The Self-sufficient Life and How to Live It by John Seymour
Buy used from: $15.90 My own personal bible for how I would like to live.
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 | The Victory Garden: The Essential Companion by James Wilson
Buy used from: $1.92 A great how-to plan out your gardening month-by-month.
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 | Soapmaker's Companion: A Comprehensive Guide with Recipes, Techniques & Know-How (Natural Body Series - The Natural Way to Enhance Your Life) by Susan Miller Cavitch
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $8.25 The soap making bible.
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 | Teach Yourself Visually Handspinning (Teach Yourself Visually Consumer) by Judith MacKenzie McCuin
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $10.70 How to hand spin.
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 | The Homebrewers' Recipe Guide: More than 175 original beer recipes including magnificent pale ales, ambers, stouts, lagers, and seasonal brews, plus tips from the master brewers by Patrick Higgins
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.95 Tasty recipes and a great starter book.
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 | Home Sausage Making : How-To Techniques for Making and Enjoying 100 Sausages at Home by Susan Mahnke Peery
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $14.94 great recipes.
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 | The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook by Christopher Kimball
Buy new: $30.60 / Used from: $1.66 Time tested recipes and great writing.
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 | Beginning Four Harness Weaving by Deborah Chandler
Buy used from: $105.95 She makes it look so easy.
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 | Teach Yourself Visually Knitting (Teach Yourself Visually) by Sharon Turner
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $14.06 Not my favorite knitting book - but these books are great for a newbie.
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 | Teach Yourself VISUALLY Sock Knitting (Teach Yourself VISUALLY Consumer) by Laura Chau
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $12.93 Again - not my favorite - but perfect for the beginner.
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 | Barnyard in Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, and Cows by Gail Damerow
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $10.50 A good place to start. I would have liked some more info about pigs. There is a sizable chapter on chickens/ducks/geese.
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 | Country Pine Furniture Projects: 32 Classic Pieces to Build for Your Home (American Woodworker) by Bill Hylton
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $14.10 Great plans for simple furniture - he also has a kitchen cabinet book that rocks.
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 | Home Baking: The Artful Mix of Flour and Traditions from Around the World by Jeffrey Alford
Buy used from: $17.92 I have really good luck with the recipes in this beautiful coffee-table cookbook.
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 | Soup Makes the Meal: 150 Soul-Satisfying Recipes for Soups, Salads, and Breads by Ken Haedrich
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $1.99 My go-to cookbook. And its laid out by season to work with those backyard crops. Check out is other cookbooks - he's the man.
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 | How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency by Piers Warren
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $7.81 Awesome veggie specific guide to keeping your harvest.
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 | Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-Ourselves Guide by Scott Kellogg
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $9.59 Good for the rain-barrel aquaculture tilapia plan.
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 | The Complete Compost Gardening Guide: Banner batches, grow heaps, comforter compost, and other amazing techniques for saving time and money, and producing ... most flavorful, nutritous vegetables ever. by Barbara Pleasant
Buy new: $12.97 / Used from: $11.77 Interesting suggestions for growing in bales, bags and compost itself.
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