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| prairielandherbs |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 12:08:55 PM
I found reference to a old thread about people's favorite books about sustainable living....but I couldn't find the thread. (I completely admit to being search impaired). I'm really interesting in building up my library on this subject...can anyone point me to the thread, or, can we start another?!? :)
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| rain4nights |
Posted - Feb 22 2008 : 1:32:57 PM
Reader's Digest: Back to Basics - has a little bit of everything you might want to dabble in. How to buy land, how to build a fence, how to raise various livestock, how to grow food, how to can, spin, dye, make soap... literally everything. Not too deep into each subject, but has lots to whet the appetite and lots of good bibliographical references.
Here's 3 good books on eating locally (more why-to than how-to): "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" (someone already mentioned it), "The Omnivore's Dilemma", "Plenty".
Also, anything by Gene Logdson, he's all about doing the most with the least (especially least effort!).
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| prairielandherbs |
Posted - Feb 19 2008 : 9:29:32 PM
Oh how cool! I *just* got this one in my mailbox!!!!!!!! I am glad to know my money was well spent! I'll be loking through it this weekend for sure! Thank you! :)
-maggie
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Originally posted by Rebekka Mae
Maggie-
Little House on a Small Planet- It is THE BEST book about living small that I have found, other green remodeling books etc. seem geared toward people who are building new. This book will make you feel FABULOUS about living in a little home whether it be an apartment, cottage, teepee or farmhouse with a practical emphasis on living simply.
Warmly, Rebekka
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Virginia Woolf
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| mikesgirl |
Posted - Feb 19 2008 : 5:21:10 PM
I love Backwoods Home - not so crazy about Back Home. I really don't care for any of the survivalist (guns, etc.) stuff in some of these magazines, but if you can overlook it, there is some great content regarding homesteading in them. My favorite, though, is Countryside.
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| Rebekka Mae |
Posted - Feb 19 2008 : 08:25:24 AM
Maggie-
Little House on a Small Planet- It is THE BEST book about living small that I have found, other green remodeling books etc. seem geared toward people who are building new. This book will make you feel FABULOUS about living in a little home whether it be an apartment, cottage, teepee or farmhouse with a practical emphasis on living simply.
Warmly, Rebekka
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| MasterGardener |
Posted - Feb 19 2008 : 08:21:43 AM
John Seymour has another book called "The Self-Sufficient Life And How to Live It" which teaches, well just about anything and everything...how to build, grow, process...etc.
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| emma.birdwhistle |
Posted - Feb 19 2008 : 07:55:07 AM
I love anything by John Seymour. I haven't read as many of his books as I'd like to, as they're a bit hard to find around here (he was British), but Farming for Self-Sufficiency is one of my favorites. I love the way he writes, and admire the way he makes self-sufficiency sound perfectly reasonable, and perfectly achievable.
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| sewgirlie |
Posted - Feb 13 2008 : 7:19:46 PM
Elizabeth!! That is so cool that you met your husband through your writing. I love stories like that.
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| babysmama |
Posted - Feb 13 2008 : 7:16:21 PM
My husband and I actually met through the Countryside magazine. I had written an article which was published in there and he wrote to me. The rest is history! So of course I have to recommend that magazine to everyone! 
-Elizabeth |
| Libbie |
Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 5:28:25 PM
Hey - thanks - it's good to be back! I've been in contact with Miss Wilma - thanks for the "heads-up!"
XOXO, Libbie
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| frannie |
Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 5:23:21 PM
tina,
your booksite is wonderful. i faved it so i can check it out later when i need a book. i have several of the books you mention, but you had a lot of new ones i havent seen before and i have been reading about this topic for about 2 decades. i had no idea you sold books.
love
fran
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| mikesgirl |
Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 4:55:50 PM
Elizabeth - we must think alike! I had mentioned both of those magazines and that book!!
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| prairielandherbs |
Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 08:34:07 AM
that's it. I MUST get subscriptions to those 2 magazines. :) |
| babysmama |
Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 08:19:30 AM
These two aren't books either but are awesome when it comes to homesteading. Countryside magazine and Backwoods Home magazine.
A book I like is "Back to Basics".
-Elizabeth |
| Marybeth |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 7:14:37 PM
I don't know if that is the thread or not. It seemed to me the other one had just how-to books, but this may work. Thanks Libbie. MB
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| Marybeth |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 7:10:53 PM
Well, Libbie glad to have you baaaack. I think Miss Wilma has been looking for you too.
We miss you ya know. MB
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| Libbie |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 4:37:25 PM
Could this be the one? http://www.maryjanesfarm.org/snitz/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4576
XOXO, Libbie
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| Libbie |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 4:31:10 PM
Okey-dokey! I'm baaaack!!! Let me see where that thread it -- thanks, Mary Beth!
XOXO, Libbie
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 4:25:21 PM
animal, vegetable, miracle is a MUSTHAVE book!
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| Marybeth |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 4:13:59 PM
I don't know where the thread went either. It has been up a couple of times. Libbie started it and should know where it is hidden. but where is Libbie? Haven't heard from her in a while.
An excellent book that i could relate to is 'Country Women" It tells you how to do most anything. MB
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 3:14:24 PM
I offer a wide selection of sustainable living books here in case you'd like to check any of them out:
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| mikesgirl |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 3:03:33 PM
Yes - Rodale press books are great. Backwoods Homes also publishes anthologies that are SO helpful and practical. Readers Digest Back to Basics has some good info in it too.
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| La Patite Ferme |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 3:01:31 PM
I would add Organic Gardening to the magazine list and anything by Rodale Press to the book list. Rodale publishes OG. They have gardening, canning, farm building, etc books. I also found one about frugal living and finances.
I have also been successful with used books from my Friends of the Library book sales. It's kinda hit or miss though. |
| prairielandherbs |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 1:23:05 PM
Hi Jen! I just started subscribing too - only have 2 issues so far and I completely agree. am LOVING it. Sherri, I will check out those magazines, thank you! |
| mikesgirl |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 12:45:19 PM
Book - Carla Emery's Encyclopedia of Country Living - (I met her - what a nice, down to earth person she was) and magazines - Countryside and Backwoods Home. I find both of them much more practical than MEN.
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| jenbove |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 12:37:24 PM
Not a book, Maggie, but I just started subscribing to Mother Earth News magazine & am very impressed. I've dog-eared all sorts of pages in the last 2 issues!
Here's the website: www.motherearthnews.com
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