As newbie’s to homesteading, gardening, and basically everything self-sufficient living, we are working on building up our library of resources. Here are the books we’re starting with…
The Grow System: The Essential Guide to Modern Self-Sufficient Living—From Growing Food to Making Medicine, by Marjory Wildcraft
The Grow System provides a comprehensive strategy for producing healthy food and herbal medicine at home and reclaiming the skills our ancestors used every day. It helps connect us to the environment and empowers us to lead healthier lives, without relying on big systems that are out of our control and insecure. It offers a path to a rich, reliable, and deeply satisfying life.
The Old Farmer’s Almanac: Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook
Only The Old Farmer’s Almanac has the experience and longevity to offer the very best tried-and-true information, tips, and advice about all things gardening and growing. With the Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook, we are a patient master gardener passing down the secrets of growing great food to every gardener.
Learn how to grow your own herbs and make plant-based remedies with the definitive guide to herbal wellness. The Practical Herbal Medicine Handbook teaches you to make your own natural medicines with over 100 DIY herbal treatments, a directory of over 44 healing herbs, and photo-illustrated step-by-step techniques.
Self-Sufficient Living: Vegetable Gardening, Canning and Fermenting, Keeping Chickens, and More, by Abigail Gehring
In this book, Gehring offers a guide to homesteading skills that is as charming as it is practical. Full of sweet illustrations and gorgeous photographs, step-by-step instructions for essential skills such as building a chicken coop are interspersed with country lore and old-fashioned tips and tricks.
The Grow System, by Marjory Wildcraft, is already amazing and we’re looking forward to diving deep into the others, taking copious notes we’ll share on the blog as we go!