Backyard Agriculture & Homesteading
Sol Viva - Anna Eady
A look at intensive home gardening systems, plant stacking in greenhouses, and intense zone 1-2 food production. Also features information on food security, true freedom, and pacifism.
The Foxfire Book Series -Volumes 1-6
This collection features thousands of pages of Appalachian skills, culture, and lore concering country living. An incredible collection of information on everything from garderning to slaughtering pigs.
Four Season Harvest - Elliot Coleman
An excellent book on gardening in the northeast and growing year round in cold climate zones.
How to Grow More Vegetables than you Ever Thought Possible on Less Land than you Could Imagine - John Jeavons
This book features excellent hints, tricks, and practices for zone 1 intensive cultivation, it is especially helpful for suburban and urban applications.
Build Your Own Earth Oven - Kiko Denzer
Provides construction and design information for building your own wood fired earthen oven.
Roses Love Garlic, Carrots Love Tomatoes, Astrological Gardening - Louise Riotte
Three classic works filled with lore about companion planting, medicinal herbs and classic farming advice.
The Backyard Orchardist & The Backyard Berry Book - Stella Otto
These two great books cover just about all aspects of these pursuits. Includes many useful species and varieties to extend yield times, information on stacking and creating diversity.
Forest Gardening - Robert Hart
A wonderful work on growing and planning a warm temperate forest garden.
Redesigning the American Lawn - F. Herbet Bormann et al.
Outlines the ecological problems created by the promotion of the industrial lawn, chapters on freedom lawns and ecological gardening.
Paradise Lot - Eric Toensmeier & John Bates
The chronicles of one backyard in Holyoke, MA from a run-down lot into a lush, productive foodscape.
A look at intensive home gardening systems, plant stacking in greenhouses, and intense zone 1-2 food production. Also features information on food security, true freedom, and pacifism.
The Foxfire Book Series -Volumes 1-6
This collection features thousands of pages of Appalachian skills, culture, and lore concering country living. An incredible collection of information on everything from garderning to slaughtering pigs.
Four Season Harvest - Elliot Coleman
An excellent book on gardening in the northeast and growing year round in cold climate zones.
How to Grow More Vegetables than you Ever Thought Possible on Less Land than you Could Imagine - John Jeavons
This book features excellent hints, tricks, and practices for zone 1 intensive cultivation, it is especially helpful for suburban and urban applications.
Build Your Own Earth Oven - Kiko Denzer
Provides construction and design information for building your own wood fired earthen oven.
Roses Love Garlic, Carrots Love Tomatoes, Astrological Gardening - Louise Riotte
Three classic works filled with lore about companion planting, medicinal herbs and classic farming advice.
The Backyard Orchardist & The Backyard Berry Book - Stella Otto
These two great books cover just about all aspects of these pursuits. Includes many useful species and varieties to extend yield times, information on stacking and creating diversity.
Forest Gardening - Robert Hart
A wonderful work on growing and planning a warm temperate forest garden.
Redesigning the American Lawn - F. Herbet Bormann et al.
Outlines the ecological problems created by the promotion of the industrial lawn, chapters on freedom lawns and ecological gardening.
Paradise Lot - Eric Toensmeier & John Bates
The chronicles of one backyard in Holyoke, MA from a run-down lot into a lush, productive foodscape.
