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Welcome to our Homesteader's Bookshelf

The Farmers of Squibwych Farm and our Staff at Evolved Farming provide you with insight on a collection of books that we think can make a difference on  your homestead.

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General Gardening

Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden: A Natural Approach to Pest Control

Jessica Walliser

Nature and Trees

Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast

Michael Wojtech

Permaculture Science

Compact Farms: 15 Proven Plans for Market Farms on 5 Acres or Less; Includes Detailed Farm Layouts for Productivity and Efficiency

Josh Volk

Scaling Your Homestead

Farm Marketing from the Heart

Charlotte Turner Smith

General Gardening

Gardening Without Work: For the Aging, the Busy & the Indolent (Ruth Stout)

Ruth Scott

Livestock: Goats

Holistic Goat Care: A Comprehensive Guide to Raising Healthy Animals, Preventing Common Ailments, and Troubleshooting Problems

Gianaclis Caldwell

Foraging

Mushrooms of Northeast North America: Midwest to New England

George L. Barron

Foraging

North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide To Edible And Inedible Fungi (Falconguide)

Orson Miller, Hope Miller

General Homesteading

Polyface Micro: Success with Livestock on a Homestead Scale

Joel Salatin

DIY and Building Things

Small Strawbale: Natural Homes, Projects & Design

Bill Steen, Athena Swentzell Steen, Wayne J. Bingham

Livestock: Pigs

Storey's Guide to Raising Pigs, 3rd Edition: Care, Facilities, Management, Breeds

Kelly Klober

Livestock: Chickens

The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens: Everything You Need to Know . . . and Didn't Know You Needed to Know About Backyard and Urban Chickens

Andy Schneider

General Gardening

The Hydroponic Garden Secret: How to Grow More Food Faster All Year Long

Susan Patterson

Homestead Life

The Rooted Life: Cultivating Health and Wholeness Through Growing Your Own

Justin Rhodes

Medicine

Wild Remedies: How to Forage Healing Foods and Craft Your Own Herbal Medicine

Emily Han and Rosalee de la Forêt

Livestock: Chickens

Backyard Chickens' Guide to Coops and Tractors: Planning, Building, and Real-Life Advice

Members of Backyard Chickens.com

Permaculture Science

Biodynamic Gardening: Grow Healthy Plants and Amazing Produce with the Help of the Moon and Nature's Cycles

DK

Cooking

Everyday Happy Herbivore: Over 175 Quick-and-Easy Fat-Free and Low-Fat Vegan Recipes

Lindsay Nixon

General Gardening

Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting

R. J. Ruppenthal

General Gardening

Grow All You Can Eat in 3 Square Feet: Inventive Ideas for Growing Food in a Small Space

DK

General Gardening

Landscaping with Fruit: Strawberry ground covers, blueberry hedges, grape arbors, and 39 other luscious fruits to make your yard an edible paradise. (A Homeowners Guide)

Lee A. Reich

Foraging

Mushrooms: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar North American Species (Wildlife and Nature Identification)

James Kavanagh

Scaling Your Homestead

Pastured Poultry Profit$

Joel Salatin

Permaculture Science

Practical Permaculture: for Home Landscapes, Your Community, and the Whole Earth

Jessi Bloom

Livestock: General

Small-Scale Livestock Farming: A Grass-Based Approach for Health, Sustainability, and Profit

Carol Ekarius

General Homesteading

The Backyard Homestead Seasonal Planner: What to Do & When to Do It in the Garden, Orchard, Barn, Pasture & Equipment Shed

Larkin Hansen

Homestead Life

The Egg and I

Betty MacDonald

Cooking

The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

Jeff Hertzberg M.D., Zoë François, et al.

General Homesteading

The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading: An Encyclopedia of Independent Living (Ultimate Guides)

Nicole Faires

Scaling Your Homestead

You Can Farm

Joel Salatin

Preserving

Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving: 400 Delicious and Creative Recipes for Today

Judi Kingry, Lauren Devine

General Gardening

Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening

Louise Riotte

Medicine

Evidence-based Herbal Medicine

Michael Rotblatt, Irwin Ziment

Permaculture Science

Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture

Toby Hemenway

General Gardening

Grow It! : The Beginner's Complete Organic Small-Farm Guide

Langer, Richard W.

Foraging

Midwest Foraging: 115 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Burdock to Wild Peach

Lisa M. Rose

General Gardening

No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture: Pesticide-Free Methods for Restoring Soil and Growing Nutrient-Rich, High-Yielding Crops

Bryan O'Hara

DIY and Building Things

Polyface Designs: A Comprehensive Construction Guide for Scalable Farming

Joel Salatin

Medicine

Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide: 33 Healing Herbs to Know, Grow, and Use

Rosemary Gladstar

Livestock: Goats

Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats, 5th Edition: Breed Selection, Feeding, Fencing, Health Care, Dairying, Marketing

Jerry Belanger, Sara Thomson Bredesen

General Homesteading

The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!

Carleen Madigan

Permaculture Science

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World

Peter Wohlleben

Permaculture Science

The New Create an Oasis with Greywater 6th Ed: Integrated Design for Water Conservation, Reuse, Rainwater Harvesting, and Sustainable Landscaping

Art Ludwig

General Gardening

The Whole Okra: A Seed to Stem Celebration

Chris Smith

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