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Self sufficiency is a relative thing in our modern world. It can be as small and simple as a tomato plant in a container - a small crop of fresh tomatoes can be a wonderful and inspiring thing! Complete self sufficiency is another thing entirely - will require the right circumstances, a lot of knowledge, and complete commitment to have a chance of success! You have to choose where your comfort zone is along this continuum. We do recommend that you seek some self-sufficiency - it is hard to find a greater satisfaction!
Survival is a hot topic these days, and means different things to different people. How much to get by for how long? Self sufficiency is one answer, but in our Willits valley we are always working towards survival as a community.
What books to include in this category? There is an argument for nearly every book we offer. We were strongly tempted to include How To Grow More Vegetables because you are not going to survive without a sustainable organic garden. What we have included though, are the most obvious books - directly about survival and self-sufficiency, basic tools, water management, and so on. Highly recommended: The Encyclopedia of Country Living - a true omnibus practically written by Carla who lived it her whole life.
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| Acorns and Eat ‘em |
Suellen Ocean, 1993, 86 pp.
Acorns were the major food staple of the original residents, the Pomo. Suellen makes collecting and eating acorns easy. She gives you a lot of acorn lore, especiallty how and where to harvest acorns, with 34 original delicious recipes. Acorn pancakes, peanut butter accord cookies, yum! |
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| Experimental 33-Bed GROW BIOINTENSIVE Mini-Farm: :Growing Complete Fertility, Nutrition and Income - Booklet 36 |
| John Jeavons, 2011, 34 pp This booklet is our newest plan, based upon 40 years of solid research, for growing all your food, compost and a modest income on a little as 3,300 sq ft of growing beds. This is based on conservative intermediate-level GROW BIOINTENSIVE yields. It has been designed for longer growing season areas with warmer nights, as opposed to Booklet 14, and similarly uses a 3-bed plan as its basis, which can then be scaled up to a full mini-farm. Contains delicious recipes based on the crops grown. |
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| City Chicks: Keeping Micro-flocks of Chickens as Garden Help |
| Patricia Foreman, 2010, 464 pp.
City Chicks is already the definitive book on urban chickens. The author Patricia Foreman has 20 years of hands-on experience keeping backyard chickens. Author of earlier books on chicken-raising, she now has the right book at the right time. As a pharmacist, she tells you how to care for your chickens herbally and with home remedies.
"City Chicks is a revelation! It's time someone connected gardenng to raising and keeping hens. This book is filled with excellent advice so that everyone can confidently practice good earth stewardship, not to mention have a prize garden!". - Michael Metallo, President, National Gardening Associatigon |
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| Creating a Forest Garden |
Martin Crawford, 2010, 384 pp.
This was my coffee-break book for about a month and I am still in awe. A brilliant, well-organized book that walks you through the whole process of creating a sustainable forest garden that produces on multiple veritcal levels and largely defends and fertilizes itself. Crawford has something like 500 plants on two acres and regularly picks 20 varieties for his salads which change with the seasons, and recommends you have 50 varieties even for a small garden. The comprehensive directory of over 450 trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennals, herbs, annuals root crops and climbers are mind boggling; almost all edible, but also medicinal, nitrogen-fixing, fiber and even wax producing plants. |
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| Dried, Cut, and Edible Flowers. - Booklet 18: |
Dried, Cut, and Edible Flowers for Pleasure, Food and Income
Louisa Lenz, Booklet 18,1990, 60 pp.
Flowers enrich our lives, are often quite useful for vegetable growing by serving as food sources for pollinating insects, can be part of a good business, and many are even good to eat! Cultivation of dried and cut flowers, information on edible flowers, and economic data on mini-farming flowers commercially. Illustrated. |
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| Edible Landscaping |
| Rosalind Creasy, 2010, 384 pp.
Ros coined the now-ubiquitous term "edible landscaping" in 1982 when she published her first book on the subject. Drawing on the author's decades of research and experience, this book presents everything you need to know to create an inviting home landscape that will yield mouth watering vegetables, fruits, nuts, and berries. The comprehensive Encyclopedia of Edibles-a book in itself-provides horticultural information, culinary uses, sources, and recommended varieties; and appendices cover the basics of planting and maintenance, and of controlling pests and diseases using organic and environmentally friendly practices. |
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| The Encyclopedia of Country Living |
Carla Emery, Updated, 10th edition, 2008, 922 pp.
We first met Carla Emery over twenty years ago, when she had just finished the first edition of this classic book. Subtitled “An Old Fashioned Recipe Book,” but full of much more than just food recipes, this is a basic handbook of self-sufficient living. Recipes and instructions for just about anything you might want to do on a homestead, and not just for country folks. Anyone who wants to do more for themselves can enjoy this book, and Carla’s neighborly style of writing makes you want to get on with it! |
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| Flour Power |
Marleeta Basey, 2004, 288 pp.
From the cover: Qucik, Easy, and Inexpensive
The only complete guide available on the subject of home milling. If you are looking for a whole-grain health bonanza with just a few minutes of kitchen time, you've picked the right book! Modern flour mills and bread machines turn breadmaking into a task no more complicated, nor expensive, than grinding beans and brewing breakfast coffee. Flour Power tells you how to compare, locate and buy one of the dozens of different mills on the market, how to buy the "right" wheat and how to make delicious, light whole meal loaves - every time.
Guaranteed Whole-Grain Health
Why bother grinding flour at home? Flour Power explains why virtually all commercial flours (even "whole wheat") have lost fiber, vitamins, mineral, enzymes and phytochemicals during processing and storage. A diet rich in whole grains has been linked to vastly improved health, but in many cases researchers aren't absolutely certain which components in the whole grain are actually doing the good work. The only safe way to get all the health benefits is to eat all the grain.
Flour Power also tells you how to:
-make a gourmet cook euphoric
-replace "bad" carbs with "good" carbs
-add whole-grain health to low-carb diets
-roll oats at home
-ensure food self-sufficiency in case of natural disasters
-get whole grains in the diets of gluten sufferers
-grind flour manually, if you prefer
-grind wheat, corn, rye, beans, spelt, quinoa, even peanut butter
-prepare healthful (and delicious) quick breads, cakes, cookies, muffins, cornbread and
-much more from home-milled flours |
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