Joey Green's Amazing Kitchen Cures: 1,150 Ways to Prevent and Cure Common Ailments with Brand-Name Products7 reviews Joey Green Rodale Books, 2002 Great little remedies and great for kids too. + interesting stuff + Amazing Book + nurseor             The Self-Sufficient Gardener10 reviews John Seymour Main Street Books, 1979 This Book should still be in print! + The ultimate vegetable gardening book + If I could have only one book + This Book should still be in print! + A Vegetable-Gardening Essential             The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency10 reviews John Seymour Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd, 2003 The quintessential homesteading book + Doesn't get any better than this book + also published as "The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It" + The New Self Sufficiency is a great deal + All the basics for the new homesteader             Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners29 reviews Suzanne Ashworth, Kent Whealy Seed Savers Exchange, 2002 Very Great Book + Essential Book + Love this book! + Fantastic book for those looking to start saving seed + Great book             The Vegetable Gardener's Bible: Discover Ed's High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening ...61 reviews Edward C. Smith Storey Publishing, LLC, 2000 MUST HAVE gardners reference + must-have gardening book + The Vegetable Gardener's Bible + Just Plain Wow! + I feel like an expert gardener!             Earth Knack5 reviews Bart Blankenship, Robin Blankenship Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2001 One of the best sources for this type of information + Good Gift + Informative Book + Earth Knack gives you the know-how + Eath Knack Stone Age Living Skills             Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance34 reviews John Storey, Martha Storey Storey Publishing, LLC, 1999 Great overall starter guide and reference + Handy reference + Very good reference + Basic Country Skills             Edible Wild Plants: A North American Field Guide15 reviews Thomas Elias, Peter Dykeman Sterling, 1990 A 'must' for people interested in edible wild plants + wildman + Top notch guide + GREAT book             Home Cheese Making: Recipes for 75 Delicious Cheeses36 reviews Ricki Carroll Storey Publishing, LLC, 2002 perfect for the home cheesemaker ready to try more advanced cheeses + it really gets you on your way to making cheese + Home Cheese Making. + Love it.             Primitive Technology II7 reviews Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2001 Highly Recommended by a Paleotechnologist!!! + GOOD BOOK + A go-to reference of ancestral skills! + The Books that keep on giving + I also bought the companion piece...             The American Frugal Housewife M. Lydia Child IndyPublish, 2006 First published in 1828, Lydia Maria Child's The American Frugal Housewife was an extremely popular nineteenth-century manual for homemakers. Interesting recipes and remedies, advice on parenting and the myriad responsibilities of housekeeping are all put forth in straightforward, no-nonsense, Yankee prose. Mrs. Child was an early feminist and abolitionist who supported her family through her ...             The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure, Third Edition64 reviews Joseph C. Jenkins Jenkins Publishing, 2005 Great for the environment + Humanure Handbook: Required Reading + poopalicious! + A true page turner! + Wish I could give it more than five stars!             The Pond Lovers2 reviews Gene Logsdon University of Georgia Press, 2003 A Love Affair with Small Waters + Nice blend of information and storytelling. Those who love Gene Logsdon's work will definitely want to add this book to their library. Along with his usual contrary take on proper pond building methods, he conveys the beauty, diversity, and endless joy generated by a small pond of water. If you've not read Mr. Logsdon, then this is a ...             Forgotten Arts and Crafts20 reviews John Seymour DK ADULT, 2001 Know the Facts Before Buying this Book John Seymoure is one of my favorite authors to read. He is brilliant, witty, wise and sincere about a subject that is dear to my heart: self-sufficiency and homesteding. That being said, please read this review before purchasing this book. This is an excellent book that explains to you how ...             The Illustrated Guide to Edible Wild Plants7 reviews Department of the Army The Lyons Press, 2003 Informative little book + A good resource to have + useful book. Good little book that covers quite a lot. Gives good information on those plants in the wild that can be used for food. Along with this it gives excellent clear color close up pictures of the plants with a description of their botanical structures, habitats and distribution, edible parts and other ...             Backyard Livestock: Raising Good, Natural Food for Your Family, Third Edition8 reviews Steven Thomas, George P. Looby Countryman, 2007 This is the best of the best + Everything you needed to know about raising your own animals + Everything to get started! Anyone who would like to put a few animals in the backyard for eggs or meat or milk or everything altogether, will save hundreds of headaches, and probably hundreds of dollars, by buying this book and taking Steven Thomas's suggestions seriously. There are now dozens of these kinds of books out ...             Women of the Northern Plains: Gender and Settlement on the Homestead Frontier, 1870-19302 reviews Barbara Handy-Marchello Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2005 lives and legacy of pioneer women "North Dakota pioneer women accepted what they had first seen as 'nothing,' made it into something they recognized, and claimed it as their own." Handy-Marchello writes about the varied ways the pioneer women claimed the empty and daunting frontier. Both immigrant women and "Yankee" women migrating ...             Handy Farm Devices: And How to Make Them22 reviews Rolfe Cobleigh The Lyons Press, 1996 Wonderful old farm devices Wonderful old farm devices, I am very happy I purchased this book. It is very simple and reminds me of how simple yet hardworking farmers were before modern inventions that make farming easier today. I think anyone that wants to still use the old way of doing things should check out this book. It ...             Build Your Own Earth Oven: A Low-Cost, Wood-Fired Mud Oven; Simple Sourdough Bread; Perfect Loaves26 reviews Kiko Denzer Hand Print Press, 2000 Practical and well conceived + Great Book + Build Your Own Earth Oven, 3rd Edition: A Low-Cost Wood-Fired Mud Oven; Simple Sourdough Bread; Perfect Loaves + Earth Oven, how to build and outdoor oven. + wood fired ovens             The Wild Vegetarian Cookbook8 reviews "Wildman" Steve Brill Harvard Common Press, 2002 A truly "must have" cookbook for anyone who loves to cook! + One Extraordinary Cookbook + ANOTHER GREAT BOOK! I'm not Euell Gibbons or Emeril, but if you were to cross those two together, it's as close as you'd be likely to come to finding someone who might be able to write a book as wonderful as "The Wild Vegetarian Cookbook" by "Wildman" Steve Brill. Wild food aficionados in particular have good reason ...