Fall at the Fair! Books for the Urban Farmer

Enjoy this list of books about gardening and urban homesteading that follows the theme for our SweetBean Reading Challenge in August!

Updated July 3, 2024
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Ball canning back to basics : a foolproof guide to canning jams, jellies, pickles, and more
Paper Book
Can it, pickle it, and store it with confidence.  If you can boil water, you can make your own delectable jams and jellies, try your hand at fresh-pack pickling, and jar savory sauces. Ball Canning Back to Basics focuses on the building-block...
Can it, bottle it, smoke it : and other kitchen projects
Solomon, Karen.
Paper Book
Have you ever wanted to . . . Bottle your own soda? Press your own tofu? Smoke your own cheese? Boil your own bagels? Ferment your own miso? Can your own tomatoes? Roast your own coffee?nbsp; Can It, Bottle It, Smoke It walks you through a slew of satisfying...
Cheese making : essential guide for beginners
Ash, Rita
Ebook
A comprehensive yet concise guide to making cheese at home, featuring step-by-step instructions, recipes, advice, troubleshooting tips, and more. Inside this book you will find everything you need to know to begin making cheese, from the tools and equipment for the job...
Epic homesteading : your guide to self-sufficiency on a modern, high-tech, backyard homestead
Espiritu, Kevin
Paper Book
Followed by millions @epicgardening, Author Kevin Espiritu has built a modern, high-tech homestead on a modest urban lot. In Epic Homesteading, he teaches you how to do the same, wherever you live. As Kevin has proven--thanks to his enthusiasm and willingness...
Homesteading : a backyard guide to growing your own food, canning, keeping chickens, generating your own energy, crafting, herbal medicine, and more
Gehring, Abigail R
Paper Book
Whether you want to live off the grid as part of the modern back to nature movement, or simply learn new skills that will make your home more comfortable and your garden grow, this companion to the bestseller Back to Basics, is for you! Who doesn't want to shrink their...
Mini farming : self sufficiency on a 1/4 acre
Markham, Brett L.
Paper Book
Go back to basics--compost, raising chickens, water and irrigation, dealing with pests, and much more--with this unique, full color bestseller (over 400,000 sold). Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent...
The self-sufficiency bible : window boxes to smallholdings - hundreds of ways to become self-sufficient
Dawson, Simon.
Paper Book
In today's economic climate, self-sufficiency is increasingly seen as a viable means of taking control of our lives and safeguarding the future and this book helps readers do this. Each chapter focuses on a key topic for living a more self-sustainable life and offers practical information and expert...
Self-sufficiency for the 21st century
Strawbridge, Dick.
Paper Book
Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century includes something for everyone, from urban apartment dwellers to suburbanites to countryside residents.  With step-by-step guidance and techniques, Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century teaches you how to reduce waste,...
The self-sufficiency garden : feed your family and save money
Richards, Huw
Paper Book
Eat homegrown food all year round and save money on your weekly shop by following a simple plan for self-sufficiency. Huw Richards and Sam Cooper have spent the past two years planning and trialing their very own self-sufficiency garden in a 10x12.5m plot and now they've worked...
Self-sufficiency handbook : your complete guide to a self-sufficient home, garden, and kitchen
Bridgewater, Alan
Paper Book
Worried about ever-rising fuel bills and longing for the day when you can be off-grid and independent? Anxious about the quality of the food you eat and planning to go organic? Yearning to get back to the way it was but don't know where to start? This book will show you how to achieve the eco...
Self-sufficiency : a complete guide to baking, carpentry, crafts, organic gardening, preserving your harvest, raising animals, and more!
Gehring, Abigail R.
Paper Book
Now, more than ever, people across the country are turning toward simpler, greener, and quieter ways of living--whether they're urbanites or country folk. Following in the footsteps of Back to Basics and Homesteading, this large, fully-illustrated book provides the entire family with...
Step-by-step projects for self-sufficiency : grow edibles, raise animals, live off the grid, do it yourself
Cool Springs Press
Ebook
Build a self-sufficient life with these 60+ photo-illustrated projects for growing and preserving your own food, keeping animals, harnessing alternative energy, and more. Learning to do more things yourself is healthy, rewarding, and fulfilling, and...
Sustainable market farming : intensive vegetable production on a few acres
Dawling, Pam.
Paper Book
Growing for 100 - the complete year-round guide for the small-scale market grower. Across North America, an agricultural renaissance is unfolding. A growing number of market gardeners are emerging to feed our appetite for organic, regional produce. But most of the available...
The urban farmer : growing food for profit on leased and borrowed land
Stone, Curtis
Paper Book
Strategies and techniques for making a living with intensive food production in small spaces There are 40 million acres of lawns in North America. In their current form, these unproductive expanses of grass represent a significant financial and environmental cost. However, viewed...
The Urban Homestead
Coyne, Kelly
Ebook
The expanded, updated version of the best-selling classic, with a dozen new projects. "A delightfully readable and very useful guide to front- and back-yard vegetable gardening, food foraging, food preserving, chicken keeping, and other useful skills for anyone interested in...

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