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📚Books on Sustainability, Organic Gardening, Homesteading🛖🍄🌾
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items Here you will find books about organic gardening, soil health, companion planting, composting, homesteading, food preservation, seed saving, mushrooms, nature, rock hounding, & more! *As an affiliate I earn from qualifying purchases at no cost to...
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Homesteading
Vegetable Gardening
Soil Health
Food Preservation
Nature & Man
Mushrooms
Homesteading
Traditional life skills, homesteading, permaculture, harvesting rainwater, & composting
This is a complete guide to traditional skills for living a fully self-sustainable lifestyle!
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (Back to Basics Guides)
Gaia's Garden has a wealth of information on home-scale permaculture
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition
This 8-book-in-1 Backyard Homestead Bible contains all the information you need to power your home with renewable energy, grow fruits and vegetables sustainably, raise animals, and keep honeybees!
The Backyard Homestead Bible [8 Books in 1]: The Practical Guide to Building Your Own Mini-Farm from Scratch | Exclusive Bonus on How to Avoid Waste by Turning Surplus Food into Cash
If you want to reduce your footprint on the earth and live a more sustainable lifestyle, this book is for you!
The Modern Homestead Garden: Growing Self-sufficiency in Any Size Backyard
Great book for anyone considering collecting rainwater!
Harvesting Rainwater for Your Homestead in 9 Days or Less: 7 Steps to Unlocking Your Family's Clean, Independent, and Off-Grid Water Source with the QuickRain Blueprint
From understanding different composting systems to mastering techniques and methods, this guide covers it all!!
The Composting Bible: [5 in 1] Transform Your Waste into Rich Soil With This Easy Gardener's Guide to Composting for Optimal Organic Gardening and Improved Soil Health
Vegetable Gardening
Books on vegetable gardening
This book will help you understand every aspect of starting and maintaining a vegetable garden!!
The Vegetable Gardener's Bible, 2nd Edition: Discover Ed's High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening Regions: Wide Rows, Organic Methods, Raised Beds, Deep Soil
Great resource for the beginner or returning gardener who’s been out for a while. It’s an awesome guide & her YouTube channel is also great!
The First-Time Gardener: Growing Vegetables: All the know-how and encouragement you need to grow - and fall in love with! - your brand new food garden (Volume 1) (The First-Time Gardener's Guides, 1)
Gardener's handbook with beautiful color photos! It covers many subjects and offers useful info and tips. It also has pages for your own planning, records and observations.
The Old Farmer's Almanac Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook (Old Farmer's Almanac (Paperback))
Soil Health
Soil health & companion planting
This book goes over many growing methods, the ins and outs of soil science, composting, soil testing and more
BASIC SOIL SCIENCE for SUCCESSFUL VEGETABLE GARDENING: 7 Simple Steps to Ensure Your Traditional, Raised-Bed, Container, or No-Till Garden Isn't a Weed-Filled Failure (Bruce's Basic Garden Guides)
This book is a must-have for anyone interested in organic gardening and putting life back into your dead soil. It explains how we are killing our soil and also how to mend the soil back to the condition that it was intended to be in order to grow cro...
Secrets of the Soil : New Solutions for Restoring Our Planet
Companion planting can attract beneficial insects, minimize pests & disease, improve soil quality, and increase yields. This book shows you how to use evidence-based companion planting strategies to create a thriving, chemical-free vegetable gard...
Companion Planting for Beginners: Pair Your Plants for a Bountiful, Chemical-Free Vegetable Garden
Food Preservation
Canning, dehydrator cookbook, & seed saving
This book has hundreds of recipes, methods, canning tips and advice!!
The All New Ball Book Of Canning And Preserving: Over 350 of the Best Canned, Jammed, Pickled, and Preserved Recipes
Great book if you are starting out and new to dehydrating food
Limited-time deal: Complete Dehydrator Cookbook: How to Dehydrate Fruit, Vegetables, Meat & More
The Seed Saving Bible is packed with valuable information on harvesting & storing seeds all year round.
The Seed Saving Bible: 11 in 1. The Comprehensive Guide to Harvesting and Storing Seeds for Fresh, Flavorful Produce All Year Round. Expert Guidance for a Sustainable Garden-to-Table Experience
Nature & Man
Incredible books on the relationship between nature & man
This book is very well researched & it will change the way you view the world around you!! In the book, he discusses the history of electricity and he makes a compelling case that many environmental problems, as well as the major diseases of indu...
The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life
Classic book originally published in 1973! This book helps you explore the inner world of plants and its fascinating relation to mankind.
The Secret Life of Plants
This book is very interesting & gives incredible insight on the relationships between fungi and other living things.
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Mushrooms
Books on foraging, growing, & harvesting mushrooms
Good book on mushroom cultivation
Mushroom Cultivation for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Growing Your Own Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms at Home, Indoors and Outdoors. | + BONUS: 10 Beginner-Friendly Low Investment DIY Projects
This is a good book for beginners w/ nice illustrations
The Complete Mushroom Hunter, Revised: Illustrated Guide to Foraging, Harvesting, and Enjoying Wild Mushrooms - Including new sections on growing your own incredible edibles and off-season collecting
The ultimate guide to healing properties of medicinal mushrooms! This book features over 300 detailed plant profiles for easy mushroom identification.
The Fungal Pharmacy: The Complete Guide to Medicinal Mushrooms and Lichens of North America
Huge book that covers literally everything! If you had to have only one book on the cultivation of mushrooms, i'd pick this one!!
Radical Mycology: A Treatise on Seeing & Working With Fungi
Rockhounding
Rockhounding for beginners
Great beginners guide to rockhounding!
Rockhounding Bible: 10 In 1: The Most Complete Beginner’s Guide For All Ages On How To Find, Identify And Collect Precious Gems, Minerals, Geodes, Fossils & More. FULL-COLOR EDITION
Book Stands
My favorite book stands
Adjustable bamboo book stand w/ wheels! I like that this stand is nice and durable for reading heavy books.
Limited-time deal: Wishacc Book Stand for Reading, Rolling Extra Large Lectern Stand with Wheels, Bamboo and Sturdy Metal Build, Height Adjustable, 180 Degrees Swing (15.4 x 11 Inches)
Large mobile stand-up desk with adjustable height! This is perfect if you work from home on your laptop.
SIDUCAL Mobile Stand Up Desk, Adjustable Laptop Desk with Wheels Storage Desk Home Office Workstation, Rolling Table Laptop Cart for Standing or Sitting, Rustic Brown