Maple on Tap
This is the only book you need to produce your own maple syrup, with step-by-step instructions and invaluable advice based on Blue Ribbon-winning maple syrup producer Rich Finzer's 20 years of experience.

The Seed Underground
Janisse Ray brings us the inspiring stories of ordinary gardeners whose aim is to save time-honored open-pollinated varieties that will be lost forever if people don’t grow, save and swap the seeds.

Butchering, Smoking, Curing & Sausage Making
This hands-on guide is essential for small-scale farmers, hunters and anyone wanting to prepare and provide your own meat for the dinner table without a trip to the supermarket.

Farms With a Future
Farms With a Future will help guide farmers to manage for long-term sustainability and build a triple-bottom-line farming business focused on economic viability, social justice, and ecological soundness.

Fearless Farm Finances
Farms with a Future explores the passion, creativity, and entrepreneurship that’s needed to help family farms find their niche and remain sustainable and successful in an age of agribusiness and consolidation.

How to Not go Broke Ranching
Real-life advice on making ranching operations more profitable, less dependent upon purchased inputs and a better way to live and raise a family.

Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking
Whether you’re a serious home-scale artisan cheesemaker or just beginning to experiment, this comprehensive, user-friendly guide will take you from your first quick mozzarella to ultimately designing your own unique cheeses.

Pickled Pantry
From apples to zucchini, 150 recipes for pickles, relishes, chutneys and more.

Pure Beef
The perfect cookbook for beef lovers, Pure Beef includes 140 recipes to create a delicious ranch-to-table dining experience, accompanied by a full-color photo recipe insert and landscape images throughout.

The Farmstead Creamery Advisor
This book goes far beyond the issues of caring for livestock and basic cheesemaking and into the real business of successfully creating high-quality, handmade artisanal cheeses right on the farm.

The Gourmet Butcher...from Farm to Table DVD
The Gourmet Butcher DVD shows the step-by-step butchering process for beef, pork and lamb; breaking down the carcass into primal cuts, turning these into gourmet or retail cuts, then transforming them into table-ready gourmet dishes.

Mastering the Craft of Making Sausage
Pork or beef, poultry or game, cased or uncased sausages, this book offers complete instructions with notes on grinding, mixing, seasonings and ingredients, stuffing, curing and storage.

The Art of Fermentation
The Art of Fermentation is a comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation — how the process works, parameters for safety, techniques for effective preservation, troubleshooting, and more.

Alcohol Fuel
A guide to small-scale ethanol production that looks at basic equipment needs, fermentation recipes and distillation designs for those wanting to make the switch from gasoline to this renewable fuel.

Back to Basics Handbook
A concise guide to voluntarily simplify life in the modern age with information on buying and working land, increasing energy efficiency, raising livestock, growing your own food, enjoying your harvest year-round, skills and crafts from the land and more.

Canning, Pickling and Preserving
With simple step-by-step instructions and stunning photos, this book gives a quick introduction to the basics of canning, pickling, freezing and drying.

Fermentation Workshop DVD
With Sandor as a guide, fermentation is more than just preserving food: it’s a method of self-sufficiency, a crucial historical component to all agricultural movements, and utterly delicious.

Healthy Choices Cookbook
Featuring over 1,000 traditional and modern recipes for making healthy, nutritious food without using sugar, white flour or artificial ingredients

Homemade Contrivances
Originally published in 1897, this book is full of practical innovative ideas from an era when farmers had to make things themselves or do without. Especially for do-it-yourselfers, this book has ideas to help on every part of the farm.

Jerky
Homemade jerky is far superior, less expensive and surprisingly simple to make compared to the commercial kind. This book has all the information to make your own delicious jerky using beef, venison, fish or fowl.

The Art of Bread Making DVD
Instructional and entertaining, these busy homesteading, home schooling and home keeping ladies live on a 90-acre working farm and delight in living off the land. A great way for visual learners to learn.

The Art of Candle Making DVD
Instructional and entertaining, these busy homesteading, and home schooling ladies live on a 90-acre working farm. A great way for visual learners to learn, and especially valuable for beginning and intermediate candle makers.

The Art of Canning DVD
Instructional and entertaining, these busy homesteading, home schooling and home keeping ladies live on a 90-acre working farm and delight in living off the land. Especially valuable for those beginning canning.

The Art of Soap Making DVD
Instructional and entertaining, these busy homesteading, home schooling and home keeping ladies live on a 90-acre working farm and delight in living off the land. Especially valuable for those beginning soap making.

The Home Creamery
Fresh and easy instruction to whip up buttermilk, yogurt, cream cheese, crème fraîche, mozzarella, goat cheese and other dairy delights right in the kitchen — no specialized equipment, complicated aging or exotic ingredients needed.

Alcohol Can Be A Gas
This is the most comprehensive text on alcohol production and use ever written.

American Farmstead Cheese
The complete guide to making and selling artisan cheeses.

Anyone Can Build a Tub-Style Mechanical Chicken Plucker
Complete Instructions for the Kimball Whizbang

Anyone Can Build A Whizbang Apple Grinder & Cider Press
Subtitled Simple Plans For A Remarkably Productive Home-Scale Cidermaking System

Anyone Can Build a Whizbang Chicken Scalder
Copiously illustrated with charts and diagrams, this book tells you everything you need to know to make the ultimate homemade poultry scalder.

Artisan Farming Lessons, Lore, and Recipes
Although the setting of this book is New Mexico, the tales of the small artisan farmer could happen anywhere, with the crop being anything. The lifestyle is unique.

Barns and Outbuildings & How to Build Them
Illustrations, floor plans and building instructions.

Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game
Butchering, preserving, equipment needed and recipes.

Build A Smokehouse
Plans to build everything from a simple smoke box to a smokehouse.

Cheese and Cheese-Making, Butter and Milk
This 1896 work provides instruction on the manufacture of specific cheeses, especially gourmet cheese varieties usually produced in Europe.

Cheesemaking 101 Video DVD
Ricki Carroll's cheesemaking workshop on video.

Cold-Smoking & Salt-Curing Meat, Fish, & Game
Authentic home smoking and curing techniques.

Country Wisdom & Know-How
Everything you need to know to live off the land.

Design for Water
An accessible and clearly written guide to alternate water collection.

Earth Ponds A to Z
A resource guide for building ponds.

Farm Machinery
Principles of mechanics, instructions to build and repair.

Farmer John's Cookbook
Stories, fresh insights and intriguing.

Feast Your Eyes
The unexpected beauty of vegetable gardens.

Fences, Gates & Bridges & How to Build Them
Best methods for a variety of devices.

Five Acres & Independence
Evaluating potential land and small farm management.

From Asparagus to Zucchini
More than a cookbook featuring 420 recipes, this book also offers cooking and storage tips for 53 vegetables and herbs to make the most of local and seasonal produce.

Handy Farm Devices & How to Make Them
Instruction for labor- and money-saving projects.

Home Cheese Making
No-nonsense introduction to world of cheesemaking.

Home Remedies from Amish Country
Powerful, time-tested remedies.

Home Remedies II
These natural home remedies will save you thousands! Increase the productivity of your livestock. Make your own homemade cleaners. Learn how to control pests with homemade remedies.

Home Sausage Making
How-to techniques for making and enjoying sausages.

Home Smoking and Curing
How to smoke-cure meat, fish and game.

How to Direct Market Your Beef
Shows how one ranching couple used their family's ranch to launch a profitable operation.

How To Keep Your Classic Tractor Alive
If you are using your tractor to help on the farm, compete in the local pulls or for show, this book has everything that you'll need to know to keep it in perfect running condition.

Living on an Acre
A practical guide to the self-reliant life.

Living on the Earth
Wide-range compendium of country living skills.

Making & Using Dried Foods
Alternative to canning or freezing food.

Milk-Based Soaps
Fundamentals of making and marketing, plus recipes to get you started.

Pickles & Relishes
A how to for preserving the harvest.

Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning
Old world preserving techniques and recipes.

Preserving the Harvest
Subtitled 150 Recipes for Freezing, Canning, Drying, and Pickling Fruits and Vegetables

Put 'em Up!
Organized by vegetable and showing step-by-step, kitchen-friendly preserving techniques for the beginner or seasoned expert and including 175 tempting recipes.

Root Cellaring
Natural cold storage of fruits and vegetables.

Rustic Construction
Detailed and heavily illustrated, Rustic Construction offers clear and precise instruction for making attractive

Shelters, Shacks & Shanties & How to Build Them
Temporary or long-term; natural and man-made materials.

Superbia!
The dream of creating sustainable cities is a noble and inspiring one, but the harsh reality is that most people live in the suburbs.

The Atlas of American Artisan Cheese
This book reveals the hand-crafted dairy trend is not confined to Vermont. The book represents the first effort by a foodie to chronicle every hand-made cheese source in the country.

The Backyard Homestead
Enjoy fresher, organic, better-tasting food all the time. The solution is as close as your own backyard. The Backyard Homestead shows you how it’s done!

The Big Book of Self-Reliant Living
Advice and Information on Just About Everything You Need to Know to Live on Planet Earth

The Book of Cheese
Designed as a reference for the student and home cheese-maker, this 1918 book is intended to interpret the process of making and handling a variety of cheeses.

The Bread Builders
Natural leavens, baking science, masonry oven construction.

The Complete Root Cellar Book
Featuring over 30 plans for root cellars of all types, vegetable and fruit storage tips and 100 recipes for nutritious dishes using ingredients from the root cellar.

The Encyclopedia of Country Living
A guide to be entirely self sufficient.

The Fabrication of Farmstead Goat Cheese
Introduction to the art of goat cheesemaking.

The Food of a Younger Land
A fascinating look at the role food plays in our history and culture from the days of the Great Depression. Featuring authentic recipes and many anecdotes.

The Naturally Clean Home
The Naturally Clean Home makes it fun to mix up chemical-free products that are easy on home and planet!

The Niman Ranch Cookbook
Explores the development of a meal from farm to table.

The Operation, Care and Repair of Farm Machinery
Classic detailed use and care of early farm machines.

The Soapmaker's Companion
Complete process of soapmaking.

The Ultimate Guide to Skinning and Tanning
A how to guide for skinning and tanning.

The Whole Organic Food Book
Safe, healthy harvest from your garden to your plate.

The Winter Harvest Handbook
Gardeners and farmers can use the innovative, highly successful methods Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise crops throughout the coldest of winters.

Traditional American Farming Techniques
A guide to all aspects of farming from The Golden Age of Agriculture.

Uprisings — The Whole Grain Bakers' Book
Recipes from 18 bakeries; special dietary indexing.

Urban Homesteading
City-dwellers in search of sustainable solutions are picking up a shovel and hoe and turning their closets, roofs, fire escapes and decks into fruitful gardens, bountiful orchards and forage-friendly poultry habitats.

When Technology Fails
Manual for self-reliant living and emergency survival.

Wild Fermentation
The flavor, nutrition and craft of live-culture foods.