An absolutely indispensable book from John Seymour. He shows you how to do the deep-bed system, then gives you helpful hints on how to grow all sorts of different vegetables and fruits, as well as how to harvest and store them. Well-written and well-illustrated, too. Highly recommended

Shows not how to grow more vegetables, but how to extend your growing season right through the winter without expensive greenhouses.

Another book about season-extension and vegetables appropriate for the Northeast of the United States.

A good introduction to permaculture, a technique that seeks to make horticultural systems mimic natural systems in order to decrease inputs (e.g. fertiizers and back-breaking weeding) and increase outputs.

An excellent book on permaculture written for temperate climates.

An older book about lowering your inputs into agricultural land by working with the land.

A bit repetitive, it’s important because of its emphasis on mulching and various techniques for it.

A new book about intensive gardening.

An important skill and more difficult than just using Ziploc bags.

Garlic is a wonderful vegetable which can be eaten on its own (pickled) or as a spice with many other dishes. It is also an important antibiotic and eating a lot seems to be good for you. This book is full of information, though geared towards a small-scale garlic farmer.

Don’t limit yourself to just strawberries and wild blackberries, though. This book is well worth the attention as Reich describes a number of berry plants that are disease-resistant and that give you lots of fruit for little effort.

This hard-to-find but indispensable book goes through the basics of what the advantages and disadvantages of each grain are, as well as how to harvest and thresh (ever use a flail?).

The sequel to The One-Straw Revolution, in which the author argues for a no-till approach to agriculture. This volume is just as cantankerous and preachy for as The One-Straw… but more practical.

To help us keep our deer friends out of the garden. Many low-tech, helpful solutions.

A book about selecting your own disease-resistant varieties.

An introduction to understanding the medium your plants are growing in.

A cookbook that focuses on whole foods and little cooking.