Urban Farm and Self-Sufficiency
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Growing Good Food: A Citizen's Guide to Backyard Farming
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Acadia Tucker
4.32 avg rating — 113 ratings 3. 
Growing Perennial Foods: A Field Guide to Raising Resilient Herbs, Fruits, and Vegetables
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Acadia Tucker
4.39 avg rating — 131 ratings 4. 
Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
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Jill Jonnes
3.82 avg rating — 302 ratings 5. 
Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City
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Eric Toensmeier
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 962 ratings 
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The Fruitful City: The Enduring Power of the Urban Food Forest
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Helena Moncrieff
3.86 avg rating — 90 ratings 6. 
Adasiyyih: The Story of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Model Farming Community
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Paul Hanley
4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings 9. 
Photographic Atlas of Botany and Guide to Plant Identification
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James L. Castner
4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings 9. 
Hives in the City: Keeping Honey Bees Alive in an Urban World
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Alison Gillespie
4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings 11. 
Botany in a Day: Thomas J. Elpel's Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families
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Thomas J. Elpel
4.45 avg rating — 1,242 ratings 11. 
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The Nurse-Herbalist: Integrative Insights for Holistic Practice really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Taste, Memory: Forgotten Foods, Lost Flavors, and Why They Matter
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David Buchanan
3.87 avg rating — 139 ratings 14. 
Backyard Farming: Composting: How to Plan, Build, and Maintain Your Own Compost System for a Healthy and Vibrant Garden
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Kim Pezza
3.81 avg rating — 75 ratings 16. 
The Forager's Feast: How to Identify, Gather, and Prepare Wild Edibles (Countryman Know How)
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Leda Meredith
4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings 16. 
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The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food
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Ben Hewitt
3.58 avg rating — 1,106 ratings 18. 
Cool Season Gardener: Extend the Harvest, Plan Ahead, and Grow Vegetables Year-Round
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Bill Thorness
4.19 avg rating — 31 ratings 20. 
Northeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Beach Plums to Wineberries (Regional Foraging Series)
by:
Leda Meredith
4.38 avg rating — 257 ratings 20. 
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Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems 4.21 avg rating — 150 ratings
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One Acre and Security: How to Live Off the Earth Without Ruining It
by:
Bradford Angier
3.87 avg rating — 76 ratings 
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The Beast in the Garden: The True Story of a Predator's Deadly Return to Suburban America
by:
David Baron
4.13 avg rating — 1,737 ratings 32. 
The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics Guide
by:
John Seymour
4.30 avg rating — 2,082 ratings 
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The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden
by:
Kim Flottum
4.13 avg rating — 1,103 ratings 34. 
Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness 4.01 avg rating — 1,797 ratings
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Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance
by:
M. John Storey
4.23 avg rating — 1,008 ratings 38. 
Backyard Roots: Lessons on Living Local from 35 Urban Farmers
by:
Lori Eanes
3.90 avg rating — 62 ratings 40. 
Keeping Bees with Ashley English: All You Need to Know to Tend Hives, Harvest Honey & More
by:
Ashley English
4.08 avg rating — 210 ratings 40. 
Garbage in the Cities: Refuse Reform and the Environment
by:
Martin V. Melosi
3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings 42. 
Top-Bar Beekeeping: Organic Practices for Honeybee Health
by:
Les Crowder
4.39 avg rating — 321 ratings 43. 
The Weekend Homesteader: A Twelve-Month Guide to Self-Sufficiency
by:
Anna Hess
3.83 avg rating — 733 ratings 44. 
Fresh Eggs Daily: Raising Happy, Healthy Chickens...Naturally
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Lisa Steele
4.39 avg rating — 494 ratings 45. 
Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking: The Ultimate Guide for Home-Scale and Market Producers 4.39 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Patio Raptors: Lessons from life with a flock of urban chickens
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Meredith Skyer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 48. 
The Modern Herbal Dispensatory: A Medicine-Making Guide
by:
Thomas Easley
4.55 avg rating — 922 ratings 49. 
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Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources
by:
M. Kat Anderson
4.58 avg rating — 494 ratings 51. 
The Holistic Orchard: Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way
by:
Michael Phillips
4.47 avg rating — 477 ratings 52. 
Mycorrhizal Planet: How Symbiotic Fungi Work with Roots to Support Plant Health and Build Soil Fertility
by:
Michael Phillips
4.26 avg rating — 74 ratings 
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The Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Essential Plants for Human Survival
by:
Katrina Blair
4.04 avg rating — 141 ratings 55. 
Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment
by:
Allan Savory
4.42 avg rating — 149 ratings 56. 
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2: Water-Harvesting Earthworks
by:
Brad Lancaster
4.58 avg rating — 203 ratings 57. 
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape
by:
Brad Lancaster
4.48 avg rating — 500 ratings 58. 
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Homegrown Whole Grains: Grow, Harvest, and Cook Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rice, Corn and More
by:
Sara Pitzer
4.05 avg rating — 175 ratings 60. 
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The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
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Carol Deppe
4.19 avg rating — 691 ratings 63. 
Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats 4.19 avg rating — 13,991 ratings
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The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach
by:
Ben Falk
4.36 avg rating — 790 ratings 
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The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!
by:
Carleen Madigan
4.14 avg rating — 5,633 ratings 68. 
Backyard Farming on an Acre (More or Less): Eat Healthy, Save Money, and Live Sustainably in the Space You Have
by:
Angela England
4.03 avg rating — 184 ratings 69. 
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Beekeeping: Step-by-Step Guide For Beginner and Advanced Beekeepers
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Kristen Towne
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 72. 
The Thinking Beekeeper: A Guide to Natural Beekeeping in Top Bar Hives
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Christy Hemenway
4.14 avg rating — 179 ratings 73. 
Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture
by:
Ross Conrad
3.94 avg rating — 313 ratings 
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Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens: Care / Feeding / Facilities
by:
Gail Damerow
4.29 avg rating — 1,757 ratings 77. 
Creating Your Off-Grid Homestead: Radical Inspiration and Practical Advice
by:
Teri Page
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 78. 
The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
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Scott Nearing
4.12 avg rating — 2,001 ratings 79. 
Making Home: Adapting Our Homes and Our Lives to Settle in Place
by:
Sharon Astyk
3.77 avg rating — 175 ratings 80. 
Possum Living: How to Live Well without a Job and With (Almost) No Money
by:
Dolly Freed
3.62 avg rating — 1,373 ratings 81. 
The Contrary Farmer (Real Goods Independent Living Book)
by:
Gene Logsdon
4.23 avg rating — 590 ratings 
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Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening
by:
Sepp Holzer
4.37 avg rating — 1,152 ratings 84. 
The Good Life Lab: Radical Experiments in Hands-On Living
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Wendy Tremayne
3.69 avg rating — 494 ratings 85. 
Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community
by:
Heather Flores
3.83 avg rating — 1,072 ratings 
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Miraculous Abundance: One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers, and Enough Food to Feed the World 4.20 avg rating — 486 ratings
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The Small-Scale Poultry Flock: An All-Natural Approach to Raising Chickens and Other Fowl for Home and Market Growers
by:
Harvey Ussery
4.54 avg rating — 505 ratings 
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Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables
by:
Mike Bubel
4.11 avg rating — 1,762 ratings 94. 
Canning for a New Generation: Updated and Expanded Edition: Bold, Fresh Flavors for the Modern Pantry
by:
Liana Krissoff
4.05 avg rating — 2,496 ratings 95. 
The Beekeeper's Bible: Bees, Honey, Recipes & Other Home Uses
by:
Richard A. Jones
4.51 avg rating — 725 ratings 96. 
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Farming with Native Beneficial Insects: Ecological Pest Control Solutions 4.51 avg rating — 37 ratings
