 | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $2.91 A bit high to aim, but it gave me lots of ideas on how to eat locally year 'round. I liked the recipes and the idea of eating local foods in season, even if I don't think I'm heading off to West Virginia to homestead.
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 | Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally by Alisa Smith
Buy used from: $2.54 Don't be this dumb: plan ahead to eat local foods. They started out without a source of grain! You can do better than this.
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 | Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $3.01 Exactly why you need to stop eating CAFO meat and find a local meat farmer. Support them now so they'll be in business when the oil crash comes!
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 | Putting Food By (Plume) by Janet Greene
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $7.65 This has been my canning bible. It's easy to eat locally in August, a lot harder in February.
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 | A Guide to Preserving Food for a 12 Months Harvest: Canning, Freezing, Smoking, and Drying; Making Cheese, Cider, Soap and Grinding Grain; Getting the Most from Your Garden (Ortho book series) by Mariel Dewey
Buy used from: $30.00 This was an oldy but a goody. This is stuff my grandparents knew and my grandchildren are going to WANT to know. Buy this book.
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 | Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables by Mike Bubel
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $7.50 What I like about this book is how specific and detailed it is. Which varieties keep best. What temperature and humidity to use. Recipes to use the vegetables you've got stored. It touches on making saurkraut and preserving nuts and eggs, too, though other books do pickling better.
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 | The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $8.10 Be aware of where your food is coming from. People are feeding you for THEIR benefit, not yours.
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 | Square Foot Gardening: A New Way to Garden in Less Space with Less Work by Mel Bartholomew
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $8.99 Even my town lot is large enough to grow some of my own food.
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 | Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series) by Steve Solomon
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $12.15 This book is filled with valuable information about how to make organic fertilizer, more on composting than I ever expected to learn, and some amazingly down-to-earth, commonsense stuff about making garden beds, tools and watering. It makes a good companion to Square Foot Gardening because it contradicts most of the stuff in that book, and an unexamined opinion isn't worth having.
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 | Landscaping with Fruits and Vegetables by Fred Hagy
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $20.98 My lot was filled with useless shrubs like yews and native honeysuckle. With some thought I've been able to redo hedges into cherry bushes, put in some nut and fruit trees and blueberries. Even daylilies are edible, though I don't expect to get that hungry. But, still, there's no reason not to get some of your own food from your own lawn. This book is filled with great ideas.
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 | The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden by Kim Flottum
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $9.99 Pollinators who give candle wax and a sugar substitute. A great idea.
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 | Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006 by Irma S. Rombauer
Buy new: $20.47 / Used from: $13.90 When I needed a recipe that started from scratch (as opposed to the ones that start "open a can of...") then I keep turning back to the Joy of Cooking. Need to dress a rabbit? Want to know how to turn a pumpkin into a pie? It's the Go To Book.
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