Book reviews – homesteading books, real food books, gardening books, recipe books, herbalism books, preparedness books.
“Permaculture Guide to Reed Beds: Designing, building and planting your treatment wetland system” provides the reader with detailed instructions for building an environmentally friendly wastewater treatment system. Wetlands are nature’s water treatment plants, and the author shows us how to safely adapt them on a household scale.
“Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square Inch Gardener’s Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting” by R.J. Ruppenthal shows you how to grow food in small spaces with minimal inputs. The author explores options from container gardener and dwarf fruit trees to sprouting and mini mushroom farms. There’s a chapter on making fermented foods,…
The Minimalist Gardener is a perfect book for those who claim they don’t have the time or space for gardening. Filled with colorful photos and easy to read essays, this book invites you to explore the possibilities of low input gardening. By using plants that want to grow and placing them to make it easy…
This post is by Amber Bradshaw of My Homestead Life. I recently had the opportunity to review Going Off The Grid, The How-To Book Of Simple Living and Happiness by Gary Collins. We want to move off the grid, so I am reading anything I can get my hands on that deals with off grid living. The…
“The Forest Garden Greenhouse” by Jerome Osentowski will open your eyes to greenhouse possibilities well beyond simple season extension. From tropical fruit production, to worm farm, to plant nursery, to lush oasis in a snowy landscape, these greenhouses are an investment in abundance. Innovative options like indoor forest gardens play valuable roles in relocalizing food…