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Who's your favorite Farming/Gardening/Homesteading author?
I'd have to put Gene Logsdon at the top of my list. Salatin isn't bad either...
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Gene Logsdon, Eliot Coleman and Joel Salatin.
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Because I can totally relate and everything she talks about is within the realm of possibility for me NOW, I am adoring Novella Carpenter and her urban farmer stuff.
Previously, Salatin (Bought his new one the same time I got Novella's) and the good folks of Appalachia via the Foxfire series.
I've also really loved the $64 Tomato by William Alexander and Polan's books are a good read, even though most I don't directly equate with "gardening" or homesteading.
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10/27/11, 06:09 PM
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John Seymour. He's UK-focussed, but I love the way he writes 
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Jackie Clay for me.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder. Not exactly step by step how-to books, but certainly good inspiration. Everybody should go back and read those books again (or for the first time) with an adult's perspective.
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10/27/11, 07:23 PM
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Laura Ingalls Wilder. Not exactly step by step how-to books, but certainly good inspiration. Everybody should go back and read those books again (or for the first time) with an adult's perspective.
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The DD's had those books when we were homeschooling them. Have no idea what happened to them over the years, but they're on my list to purchase again.
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John Seymour. He's UK-focussed, but I love the way he writes |
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Jackie Clay, Eliot Coleman for me.
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10/27/11, 08:39 PM
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Eliot Coleman...practical, educational and really well written!
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10/27/11, 11:54 PM
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John Vivian..w on as a new homesteader by when we started out on our "adventures".. and then of course, Helen and Scott Nearing and ...Living the Good Life and their other many books. Ah...memories..makes me feel old..?? 
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Laura Ingalls Wilder. Not exactly step by step how-to books, but certainly good inspiration. Everybody should go back and read those books again (or for the first time) with an adult's perspective.
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For homesteading inspiration, I would pick Ansel Adams and Winslow Homer.
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10/28/11, 09:12 AM
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Jackie Clay here.
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10/28/11, 04:19 PM
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Toby Hemenway "Gaia's Garden", best book I've read beside the Bible
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10/28/11, 04:31 PM
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I have a very extensive book collection and
"The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live it"
is one of my all-time favorites.
JMHO,
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Bradford Angier and for a contemporary author who writes not so much about homesteading but the rural lifestyle of Northern Kentucky in the 30s, 40s and 50s I read everything I can get my hands on by Wendell Berry.
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Lo those many years ago, I bought a Seymour book at a B. Dalton's off of the sale table. That book got rained on, lost it's cover, ended up in a three ring binder, and I finally bought the new edition.
When I met my future husband, he was thinking "farming, yeah, great" but had never been exposed to the idea of small scale. Seymour to the rescue.
After many twists and turns we're getting back into serious gardening.
I try to read Logsdon's Contrary Farmer every spring, and he's right, don't plant multiflora rose as a living fence. Groan.
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Anyone know if John Vivian is still around? His "Manual of Practical Homesteading" remains a well-thumbed volume on my bookshelf. Last I heard he was living in eastern Maine but had health problems of some sort. That was a number of years ago, though.
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