Bookshelf

Books we’ve read that moved us:

The Sheer Ecstasy of being a Lunatic Farmer – Joel Salatin   Excellent
The Vegetarian Myth – Lierre Keith  Excellent
Animals Make Us Human – Temple Grandin.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle – Barbara Kingsolver
Omnivore’s Dilemma – Michael Pollan
Coming Home to Eat – Gary Paul Nabhan     
Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal – Joel Salatin
In Defense of Food – Michael Pollan
Fields of Plenty – Michael Ableman
Dogs of Dreamtime – Karen Shanley
For The Love of A Dog – Patricia B. McConnell, PH.D.

Farming
Holistic Resource Management –  Allan Savory
Salad Bar Beef   –   Joel Salatin
Pastured Poultry Profits – Joel Salatin
Family Friendly Farming – Joel Salatin
You Can Farm – Joel Salatin
Bio-Dynamic Farming Practice – Sattler-Wistinghausen
Weeds and What They Tell – Ehrenfried Pfeiffer
Intensive Grazing Management – Burt Williams
Grass Productivity – Andre Voisin
Soil, Grass and Cancer – Andre Voisin
Plowman’s Folly – Edward Faulkner
A Second Look – Edward Faulkner
Greener Pastures on Your Side of the Fence – Bill Murphy
Fertility Pastures and Cover Crops – Newman Turner
An Agricultural Testament – Sir Albert Howard
Chicken Tractor – Andy Lee
Beef Cattle Science – M. E. Emsinger
Chicken Health Handbook – Gail Damerow
Pasture Perfect – Jo Robinson
Permaculture One  – Bill Mollison
Permaculture Two – Bill Mollison
Permaculture:  A Designer’s Manual
Meeting the Expectations of the Land – Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry, Bruce Colman
Small Scale Grain Raising – Gene Logsdon
Weed the Soil, Not the Crop – Anne and Eric Nordell
Water for Every Farm, The Keyline Plan –  P.A. Yeoman
Living Water – Olof Alexandersson
Animals in Translation – Temple Grandin
Weeds of the West – Western Society of Weed Science
Weeds, Control without Poisons – Charles Walters
Man Must Measure, Livestock Production – Jan Bonsma
Feeds and Feeding – Frank Morrison

Gardening

Growing Vegetables When it Counts – Steve Solomon  Territorial Seed founder
Water-wise Vegetables – Steve Solomon
Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades – Steve Solomon (3rd edition or later per author)
Winter Harvest Handbook – Eliot ColemanThe New Organic Grower – Eliot Coleman
Four Season Harvest – Eliot Coleman
Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties – Carol Deppe
Seed to Seed – Suzanne Ashmun
Gardening for Profit – Peter Henderson
The Vegetable Garden – MM. Vilmorin

Veterinary
Homeopathy for the Herd – Edgar Schaefer DVM
Alternative Treatments for Ruminant Animals – Paul Detloff, DVM
The Treatment of Cattle by Homeopathy – George Macleod, DVSM
Natural Cattle Care – Pat Coleby   (horse and goat edition are also available)
Merck Veterinary Manual
Treating Dairy Cows Naturally – Hubert J. Karreman, DVM
Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West – Michael Moore  Not just a field guide, good instructions for preparations.
Making Plant Medicine – Richo Cech

Other:

Ecology Of A Cracker Childhood – Janisse Ray
Wild Card Quilt – Janisse Ray  
1491 – Charles C. Mann
Wagons West – Frank McLynn