by Carleen Madigan
What you can produce on a quarter acre: vegetables, fruit, chickens, and more. A friendly overview.
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Abigail R. Gehring
A broad illustrated guide to traditional skills: building, growing, preserving, and crafts. Covers a lot of ground without going deep.
Kim Flottum
A beginner's guide to keeping bees in small spaces. Honey keeps for a very long time.
Carla Emery
Carla Emery's massive reference on growing, raising, preserving, and cooking food. If you only keep one homesteading book, many people pick this one.
Eliot Wigginton
The second Foxfire volume, with more traditional Appalachian skills from spinning to wagon making.