The Homestead Bookshelf


Homesteading

Five Acres and Independence by M.G. Kains

Made From Scratch by Jenna Woginrich

The Foxfire Books by Elliot Wigginton

The Homesteader's Handbook by Rich Israel and Rennie Slay

Back to Eden by Jethro Kloss

Permaculture: A Designer's Manual by Bill Mollison

Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway

Living on the Earth by Alicia Bay Laurel

MaryJane's Idea Book, Cook Book, Life Book by MaryJane Butters

Keeping Chickens

Chick Days by Jenna Woginrich

Minnie Rose Lovegeen's Recipe for Raising Chickens

Keep Chickens! Tending Small Flocks in Cities, Suburbs and Other Small Spaces by Barbara Kilarski

Homemade Living: Keeping Chickens With Ashley English




In the Farmhouse Kitchen

The Little House Cookbook by Barbara M. Walker

Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon

Fix it and Forget-It Cookbook by Dawn Ranck and Phyllis Good

The Moosewood Cookbook by Molly Katzen


Magazine Publications

Countryside and Small Stock Journal

MaryJane's Farm

Bakckyard Poultry

Backwoods Home




The Outdoors 

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

The Geography of Childhood by Gary Paul Nabhan and Stephen Trimble

Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv

Hands on Nature by The Vermont Institute of Natural Science

Home Ground ed. Barry Lopez

Listening for Coyote by William Sullivan



Field Guides

Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast by Pojar and MacKinnon

Northwest Trees by Arno and Hammerly

Birds of the Willamette Valley Region by Nehls, Aversa, and Opperman

Animal Tracks of Washington and Oregon by Ian Sheldon

All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Guide to Western Mushrooms by David Arora

Mushrooms Demystified by David Arora


Hiking Guides

Hiking Oregon's History by William Sullivan

Hiking Hotsprings of the Pacific Northwest by Evie Litton

Atlas of Oregon Wilderness by William Sullivan

The "100 Hikes" Series by William Sullivan
(Eastern Oregon, Southern Oregon, Central Oregon Cascades, Oregon Coast and Coast Range, Northwest Oregon)




Reading for Young'Uns

Homesteading:

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

Blue Willow by Doris Gates

Our Own May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm

Bound for Oregon by Jean van Leeuwen

Nature:

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'dell

The Fledgling by Jane Langton

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Brian's Return by Gary Paulsen


Illustrated Books:

Fairy Houses...Everywhere by Brian and Tracy Kane

The Story of the Root Children by Sybille von Olfers