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📚Books on Sustainability, Organic Gardening, Homesteading🛖🍄🌾

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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

Traditional life skills, homesteading, permaculture, harvesting rainwater, & composting
 
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This is a complete guide to traditional skills for living a fully self-sustainable lifestyle!
Back to Basics: Guide to Traditional Skills
 
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Gaia's Garden has a wealth of information on home-scale permaculture
Gaia's Garden: Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Ed.
 
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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]
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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
 
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Great book for anyone considering collecting rainwater!
Harvesting Rainwater for Your Homestead in 9 Days
 
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From understanding different composting systems to mastering techniques and methods, this guide covers it all!!
The Composting Bible: [5 in 1] Gardener's Guide

Vegetable Gardening

Books on vegetable gardening
 
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This book will help you understand every aspect of starting and maintaining a vegetable garden!!
The Vegetable Gardener's Bible, 2nd Edition
 
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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
 
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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

Soil Health

Soil health & companion planting
 
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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
 
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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: Solutions for Restoring Earth
 
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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 Plants

Food Preservation

Canning, dehydrator cookbook, & seed saving
 
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This book has hundreds of recipes, methods, canning tips and advice!!
The All New Ball Book Of Canning & Preserving
 
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Great book if you are starting out and new to dehydrating food
Complete Dehydrator Cookbook: Dehydrate Food
 
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The Seed Saving Bible is packed with valuable information on harvesting & storing seeds all year round.
The Seed Saving Bible: 11 in 1 Guide

Nature & Man

Incredible books on the relationship between nature & man
 
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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: History of Electricity
 
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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
 
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This book is very interesting & gives incredible insight on the relationships between fungi and other living things.
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds

Mushrooms

Books on foraging, growing, & harvesting mushrooms
 
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Good book on mushroom cultivation
Mushroom Cultivation for Beginners: Guide
 
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This is a good book for beginners w/ nice illustrations
The Complete Mushroom Hunter, Revised Guide
 
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The ultimate guide to healing properties of medicinal mushrooms! This book features over 300 detailed plant profiles for easy mushroom identification.
The Fungal Pharmacy: Guide to Medicinal Mushrooms
 
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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: Seeing & Working With Fungi

Rockhounding

Rockhounding for beginners
 
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Great beginners guide to rockhounding!
Rockhounding Bible: 10 In 1 Beginner’s Guide

Book Stands

My favorite book stands
 
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Adjustable bamboo book stand w/ wheels! I like that this stand is nice and durable for reading heavy books.
Wishacc Book Stand, Rolling Lectern, Adjustable
 
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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