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With so many questions about goats, other animals etc. How about everyone sending in thier favorite, most usefull, most read books, magazines, catalogs etc. We will start the list with Countryside Magazine as a given, information and inspiration! My two cents is: Jeffers Catalog 1-800-Jeffers Livestock, Equine, pet catalogs full of everything the feed store carries at lower prices. Caprine Supply Catalog caprinesupply.com everything you ever wanted to order for a goat and things you never needed! The very best newbie book GoatKeeping 101., subscriptions to Dairy Goat Journal and Caprine Supply in here also (my Favorite goat tabloids) Goat Medicine Vet Text, My Goat Bible Back to Basics by Readers Digest, it is our homesteading bible and is tattered and torn from use, literally every subject is covered. And sorry guy's but The Womenly Art of Breast Feeding, as a mom in the late 70's nobody was nursing and it gave me courage. O.K. who's next??????

-- Vicki McGaugh (vickilonesomedoe@hotmail.com), February 29, 2000

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Old back issues of Countryside, Mother Earth News, and Backwoods Home magizine, mostly culled from the library resale table are good ones; so is the Carla Emery book, The Encyclopedia of Country Living, and Stocking Up III....a MUST, if you are canning or otherwise preserving your homegrown food.

-- Leann Banta (thelionandlamb@hotmail.com), February 29, 2000.

Raising Sheep the Modern Way, by Paula Simmons

Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades by Steve Solomon

The Soapmaker's Companion by Susan Miller Cavitch

Making the Best of Basics by James Talmage Stevens

Five Acres and Independence by M.G.Kains

Woodstove Cookery by Jane Cooper

How to Live Without Electricity and Like it by Anita Evangelista

The Manual of Practical Homesteading by John Vivian

and especially: Living the Good Life by Helen and Scott Nearing (plus their other books

Country Women by Jeanne Tetrault and Sherry Thomas

All the Foxfire Books

The Have-More Plan by Ed and Carolyn Robinson

There's plenty more that I like but really, I can find it all in Countryside magazine.

-- sheepish (rborgo@gte.net), February 29, 2000.


Oops sorry...got a little off topic from animals..doh!

-- sheepish (rborgo@gte.net), February 29, 2000.

Ok, heres my list: The Encylopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery Countryside magazine Old Mother Earth News, pre 1980 Goat Kingdom on the internet http://www.cybergoat.com Hoegger Goat Supply I have more but these are a few.

-- Bernice (geminigoats@yahoo.com), February 29, 2000.

Gosh, I'm on a roll here, forum hog that I am. Oops, that wasn't meant to slam any hogs...

I forgot: Tightwad Gazette(s) I, II, and III by Amy Dacyczyn. Good thrify tips for us frugality addicts....

-- sheepish (rborgo@gte.net), February 29, 2000.



I've got most of the books and magazines listed above, and a lot more. Best? All of them. Most useful? all of them. It depends so much on what I need at any given moment. Old Organic Gardening magazines. Old Popular Mechanics magazines and books. Books from Rodale and Organic Gardening. The Reader's Digest books like Back to Basics, Crafts, how to fix it, all of that group is helpful. I've got thousands of books, how can I pick just a few? Gerbil

-- Gerbil (ima_gerbil@hotmail.com), March 01, 2000.

O.K. when did you all sneek into my house and look on my bookshelfs? Noone mentioned PUTTING FOOD BY or THE BALL CANNING BOOKS .Next time can you please knock before coming in or give a call will do tea.

-- Patty Gamble (fodfarms@slic.com), March 01, 2000.

Sounds like we all like the same reading material! There are some good ones mentioned that I don't have yet, but will certainly look for! My brother in law calls me a "Book Farmer" everytime I mention that I learned or read something that says...He scoffs. However, without the books, and all of you, I would never have ventured into all the experiences we have had living in the country! Keep up the good work, and add "Mentor" to your resume's! Thanks! Jan

-- Jan Bullock (Janice12@aol.com), March 01, 2000.

I like Wendell Berry's "Farming: A Handbook" (poetry, really) and Gene Logsdon's writings. "Poultry Health Handbook" is helpful for me, still a beginner with only 3 years experience. Someone once said (who, when, where I forget!) that all these animal books re: healthcare are enough to scare you from doing anything. I agree up to a point. Which is probably why I'm STILL trying to decide on goats! I like the book "Goat Husbandry" though.

-- Anne (healthytouch101@hotmail.com), March 05, 2000.

THANKS GUYS!!! I just phoned and ordered ALL FOUR of the Jeffers catalogs.

I found the first of the FOXFIRE books at a flea market a few weeks ago for $4 and I've read all of them from the library. would love to have my own entire set!!!

Will be checking out some of these other books and magazines too.

I still also love BACKWOODS HOME magazine because I began reading it right after they began it, in about 1990 and then that led me to COUNTRYSIDE... Any of the BACKWOODS home anthologies are great too.

-- Suzy Lowry Geno (slgt@yahoo.com), March 07, 2000.



Any issue of Countryside Magazine- all of mine are worn to a frazzle, because most are second hand anyway.

I get so many things from the net and the library that I have no list- just scraps of paper with ideas and info scribbled on them- most of the time without the sourc - yep, that's dumb.

Sheepish, you startled me by listing "Country Women" by Jeanne Tetrault and Sherry Thomas - that book gave me the courage to screw up and not quit. I loved, and used, that book so much, that I gave it to a friend who was just beginning her venture; I knew if she had a problem, it was probably covered or had a reference book to look for, in that book.

-- Sylvia (slydy@intrstar.net), March 07, 2000.


Sylvia,

Yup, I got a lot of courage out of that book, too. A friend of mine gave it to me and inscribed the frontis with: "This is to help you keep your dream alive".

These days, even knowing that I have realized a lot of that dream, I remember that inscription in that particular book. I have days when I still need a lot of courage, and try to remember that girl in the late 60's and early 70's (me) who wanted so very much to move back to the land. It helps me when I get anxious, angry, or depressed...days when I am feeling like I still don't know what I am doing! Then I just buck up, and do the best I can. And I'm not doing too bad, after all!

That book really was helpful. I loved the parts about the "ladies auxiliary" and fighting fires in California by making sandwiches for the men! Sheesh! I'd rather fight fires *together* and make sandwiches *together*!

-- sheepish (rborgo@gte.net), March 07, 2000.


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