Reading List

I have a bunch of books I wanted to read. I've read tons of books on gardening, homesteading, energy friendly construction, livestock management, etc. But this is the big list that I want to finish. There are a few video training things on here too, so maybe this is more of a "learning list" than anything else. As I discover more books, they get added here and are presented in no particular order.
  1. ☐ The Urban Farmer
  2. ☐ The Market Gardener Toolkit (film)
  3. ☑ Permaculture Chickens (film)
  4. ☐ The Family Cow
  5. ☐ Feeding Poultry
  6. ☑ Success with Baby Chicks
  7. ☑ Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats
  8. ☑ Storey's Guide to Keeping Honeybees
  9. ☐ The Farmstead Creamery Adviser
  10. ☐ Raising the Family Cow
  11. ☐ Water for Every Farm
  12. ☐ Salad Bar Beef
  13. ☐ Small Cattle for Small Farms
  14. ☐ Small-Scale Livestock Farming
  15. ☐ Pastured Poultry Profits
  16. ☑ The Small Scale Poultry Flock
  17. ☐ Song of Increase
  18. ☐ The Rocket Powered Oven
  19. ☑ Stress Free Chicken Tractor Plans
  20. ☑ Pastured Poultry Packet
  21. ☐ Salad Bar Beef
  22. ☐ The Cattle Health Handbook
  23. ☐ The Essential Guide to Calving
  24. ☐ The Lean Farm
  25. ☐ Plant Propagation
  26. ☐ Chicken Health Handbook
  27. ☐ Compact Farms
  28. ☐ The Biological Farmer
  29. ☐ The Independent Farmstead
  30. ☐ The Holistic Orchard
  31. ☐ The Farmer's Office
  32. ☐ The Carbon Farming Solution
  33. ☐ The Art and Science of Grazing
  34. ☐ Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self Reliant Gardening
  35. ☑ The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Grower's Handbook
  36. ☑ Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden
  37. ☐ The Scything Handbook
  38. ☑ The Scythe Book
  39. ☐ Peening the European Scythe (DVD)
  40. ☐ Mowing Techniques with the European Scythe (DVD)
  41. ☐ Sacred Economics
  42. ☐ Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
  43. ☐ Teaming with Fungi: The Organic Grower's Guide to Mycorrhiza
  44. ☐ Teaming with Nutrients: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition
  45. ☐ Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan
  46. ☑ Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years
  47. ☑ Just Enough
  48. ☑ The Japanese Bath
  49. ☑ Small Scale Grain Raising
  50. ☑ Fences, Gates, and Bridges: A Practical Manual
  51. ☑ Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture
  52. ☑ Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them
  53. ☑ The Bio-Integrated Farm
  54. ☑ Ten Acres Enough: The Classic 1864 Guide to Independent Farming
  55. ☑ Limits to Growth
  56. ☑ Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Update
  57. ☑ Restoration Agriculture
  58. ☑ Holistic Management
  59. ☑ Home production of Quality Meats and Sausages
  60. ☑ Meat Smoking and Smokehouse Design
  61. ☑ The Art of Fermentation
  62. ☑ Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them
  63. ☑  Gardening for the Million
  64. ☑  Home Vegetable Gardening: A Complete and Practical Guide...
  65. ☑ Garden Design and Landscaping
  66. ☑ Canning & Preserving
  67. ☑ Seed Saving for beginners
  68. ☑ The Ultimate Gardening Guide: Top Tips
  69. ☑ Every Step in Canning The Cold-Pack Method
  70. ☑ Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5
  71. ☑ JeBouffe Home Canning Step by Step Guide
  72. ☑ The Permaculture Kitchen
  73. ☑ Edible Perennial Gardening
  74. ☑ Perennial Vegetables
  75. ☑ Dry-Farming: A System of Agriculture for Countries Under a Low Rainfall
  76. ☑ Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land
  77. ☑ The Naturally Bug-Free Garden
  78. ☑ Homegrown Humus
  79. ☑ Gardening When it Counts
  80. ☑ The Solar Food Dryer
  81. ☑ Japanese Hot Pots
  82. ☑ Root Cellaring
  83. ☑ Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning
  84. ☑ Solar Gardening
  85. ☑ Four-Season Harvest
  86. ☑ Gaia's Garden
  87. ☑ All New Square Foot Gardening
  88. ☑ Texas Organic Vegetable Gardening
  89. ☑ Companion Planting
  90. ☑ Homegrown Whole Grains
  91. ☑ How to Raise the Perfect Dog
  92. ☑ Roses and Rose Growing
  93. ☑ The Art and Science of Natural Plaster
  94. ☑ The Butterfly Book
  95. ☑  Cacti & Succulents
  96. ☑  The Texas Bluebonnet
  97. ☑  Xeriscaping for Central Texas
  98. ☑ Vegetable Literacy
  99. ☑ The New Age Herbalist
  100. ☑ Preserving Summer's Bounty
  101. ☑ Dictionary of Cuisine
  102. ☑ Life in Moving Fluids
  103. ☑ Drainage of Agricultural Lands
  104. ☑ Getting Food from Water
  105. ☑ Ground Water Management
  106. ☑ Create an Oasis with Greywater
  107. ☑ Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Vol 1
  108. ☑ Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Vol 2
  109. ☑ The Passive Solar Energy Book
  110. ☑ Ranching West of the 100th Meridian
  111. ☑ Born-Again Dirt
  112. ☑ The Japanese Bath
  113. ☑ The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up
  114. ☑ The Encyclopedia of Woodworking Techniques
  115. ☑ Wood Engineering and Construction Handbook
  116. ☑ Step by Step Outdoor Projects
  117. ☑ The Encyclopedia of Woodworking
  118. ☑ How to Repair and Restore Furniture
  119. ☑ Wenddell Berry: New Collected Poems
  120. ☑ The Market Gardener
  121. ☑ The Unsettling of America
  122. ☑ The Humanure Handbook
  123. ☑ The One Straw Revolution
  124. ☑ Permaculture: A Designer's Manual
  125. ☑ Edible Forest Gardens, Volume 1
  126. ☑ Edible Forest Gardens, Volume 2
  127. ☑ Introduction to Permaculture
  128. ☑ Sepp Holzer's Permaculture
  129. ☑ The New Self Sufficient Gardener
  130. ☑ Mycelium Running
  131. ☑ A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
  132. ☑ Pest Control for Organic Gardening
  133. ☑ Rocket Mass heaters: Superefficient Woodstoves You Can Build
  134. ☑ Folks, This Ain't Normal
  135. ☑ Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
  136. ☑ The Backyard Homestead
  137. ☑ Mushrooms Demystified
  138. ☑ Paradise Lot
  139. ☑ Earth User's Guide to Permaculture
  140. ☑ Thinking in Systems: A Primer
  141. ☑  Sepp Holzer: The Rebel Farmer
  142. ☑ The Hand-Sculpted House
  143. ☑ The Mushroom Cultivar
  144. ☑ How to Grow More Vegetables
  145. ☑ You Can Farm
  146. ☑ The Permaculture Handbook
  147. ☑ Nourishing Traditions
  148. ☑ Nourishing Broth
  149. ☑ The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care
  150. ☑ The Fourfold Path to Healing
  151. ☑ Edible Wild Plants
  152. ☑ The $50 and Up Underground House Book
  153. ☑ Essence of Permaculture
  154. ☑ David Holgren: Collected Writings & Presentations
  155. ☑ Dig for Revolution
  156. ☑ Agroforestry: A Decade of Development
  157. ☑ A Practical Manual of Beekeeping
  158. ☑ Growing Food: A Guide to Food Production
  159. ☑ Agricultural Economics: Volume 4
  160. ☑ Aquarium Plants: Their Identification, Cultivation, and Ecology
  161. ☑ A Fishkeeper's Guide to Aquarium Plants
  162. ☑ A Guide to Bees and Honey
  163. ☑ Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game
  164. ☑ Cheesemaking Made Easy
  165. ☑ Commercial Greenhouse Production
  166. ☑ Drying Fruits and Vegetables
  167. ☑ Vegetable Gardening Encyclopedia
  168. ☑ Great Garden Formulas
  169. ☑ Growing Under Glass
  170. ☑ Handbook of Plant Nutrition
  171. ☑ The Green World: Horticulture
  172. ☑  Texas Master Gardener Handbook
  173. ☑ Indian Medicinal Plants: An Illustrated Dictionary
  174. ☑ Step by Step Landscaping
  175. ☑ Magic Mushrooms Around the World
  176. ☑ The Texas Manual on Rainwater Harvesting
  177. ☑ The Bountiful Solar Greenhouse: A Guide to Year-Round Food Production
  178. ☑ Seeds of Concern: The Genetic Manipulation of Plants
  179. ☑ The Natural Way of Farming: The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy
  180. ☑ American Garden Series: Vegetables
  181. ☑ Designing Ecological Habitats: Creating a Sense of Place
  182. ☑ Beyond You and Me: Inspirations ad Wisdom for Building Community
  183. ☑ Designing Productive Meetings and Events
  184. ☑ Ecovillage Design Education
  185. ☑ Your Own Edible Rooftop Garden
  186. ☑ A Resource Book for Permaculture: Solutions for Sustainable Lifestyles
  187. ☑ A Facilitator's Handbook for Permaculture: Solutions for Sustainable Lifestyles
  188. ☑ The Farmer's Handbook (vol 1-5)
  189. ☑ Gaian Economics: Living Well within Planetary Limits
  190. ☑ Interest and Inflation Free Money
  191. ☑ How to Set up a Worker's Co-Op
  192. ☑ How Mushrooms can Help Save the World
  193. ☑ The Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home
  194. ☑ Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
  195. ☑ Earthship Vol 1
  196. ☑ Earthship Vol 2
  197. ☑ Earthship Vol 3
  198. ☑ Handbook of Gravity-Flow Water Systems for Small Communities
  199. ☑ The Old Timer Page: The Way We Used to Do it (Walton Feed)
  200. ☑ The Art of Fire
  201. ☑ The Foxfire Book Vol 1
  202. ☑ The Foxfire Book Vol 2
  203. ☑ The Foxfire Book Vol 3
  204. ☑ The Foxfire Book Vol 4
  205. ☑ A Toolbox for Sustainable Living

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