A list of resources as suggested by our presenters

Books Recommended by Irvington SkillShare Presenters
Note: Bookmamas carries many of these!

Gardening:

Trowel and Error: Over 700 Tips, Remedies and Shortcuts for the Gardener by Sharon Lovejoy.
Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots: Gardening Together with Children
The Way We Garden Now, Katherine Whiteside (a series of pick-and-choose projects, including some for kitchen gardening)
The All New Square Foot Gardening, Mel Bartholemew
Gaia's Garden, Toby Hemmingway (about domestic permaculture)
Grocery Gardening, Van Krevelin (new this year, and more of an introductory book)
Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long by Eliot Coleman

Vermiculture:

Worms Eat My Garbage

Chickens:

Chickens : tending a small-scale flock for pleasure and profit / by Sue Weaver.
Keep chickens! : tending small flocks in cities, suburbs, and other small spaces / Barbara Kilarski.
Raising chickens. Haynes, Cynthia.
Storey's guide to raising chickens : care, feeding, facilities / Gail Damerow.
Chickens in your backyard: a beginner's guide. Rick and Gail Luttmann.
Chicken coops : 45 building plans for housing your flock / Judy Pangman.
The chicken health handbook / Gail Damerow.
Keeping chickens : getting the best from your chickens / Jeremy Hobson and Celia Lewis

Homesteading:

Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life, by Jenna Woginrich
Radical Homemakers, by Shannon Hayes
The Backyard Homestead, Storey Publishing (great intros on lots of subjects)
The Urban Homestead (Expanded & Revised Edition): Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Process Self-reliance Series) By Kelly Coyne, Erik Knutzen
Scott Kellog and Stacy Pettigrew's Toolbox for Sustainable City Living

Solar Cookery:

Cooking with Sunshine: The Complete Guide to Solar Cuisine with 150 Easy Sun-cooked Recipes, by Lorraine Anderson and Rick Palkovic
Solar Cooking for Home and Camp, by Linda Frederick Yaffe


Food Ethics:

Diet for a Hot Planet by Anna Lappe

Cooking:

Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook by Beth Hensperger
Fix it and Forget it Cookbook by Phyllis Pellman Good (there are several different editions/variations on this cookbook)
Fresh from the Farmers' Market: Year-Round Recipes for the Pick of the Crop by Janet Fletcher
The Harvest Eating Cookbook: More than 200 Recipes for Cooking with Seasonal Local Ingredients by Keith Snow
The Farmer John Cookbook
Simply in Season, by Mary Beth Lind and Cathleen Hockman-Wert


Preserving:

Ball Blue Book, the Guide to Home Canning and Freezing (may be out of print but used are available at Amazon)
Saving the Seasons


Beekeeping:

THE BACKYARD BEEKEEPER- Kim Flottum
THE BEEKEEPER'S HANDBOOK- Diana Sammataro & Alphonse Avitabile
PLAN BEE- Susan Brackney
NATURAL BEEKEEPING- Ross Conrad

Fermenting:

Wild Fermentation, by Sandor Katz

Foraging:

Feasting Free on Wild Edibles, by Bradford Angier
Edible Wild Plants: A North American Field Guide by Elias and Dykeman.
Stalking the Wild Asparagus, by Euell Gibbons
Harrington's How to Identify Plants.
Newcomb's Wildflower Guide

Herbal Medicine:

Healing with Whole Foods, by Paul Pitchfor
The Green Pharmacy, by Jim Duke

Bread:

Bernard Clayton's New Complete Book of Breads

Native Plants:

Go Native! by Harstad
Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens, by Doug Tallamy