What's in your Homestead Library?

I was given my favorite gift from my awesome husband, an Amazon gift card.I decided to use it to add to our homestead library. There are so many great books out there that it is usually way to hard to decide. Here is what I came up with this time.

         In her book, Natural Goat Care, Pat Colby takes us on her journey of caring for her goats. She tells us of preventative ways to keep livestock healthy, without the medicines

Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, 3rd Edition
“Everything you need to know about chickens, all in one easy-to-understand volume: Breed selection, health issues, care and maintenace, incubating, hatching, feed and shelter, egg and meat production, and more.


Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats: Breeds, Care, Dairying


The Complete Book of Butchering, Smoking, Curing, and Sausage Making: How to Harvest Your Livestock & Wild Game

Build a Smokehouse: Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-81

How to Build Animal Housing: 60 Plans for Coops, Hutches, Barns, Sheds, Pens, Nestboxes, Feeders, Stanchions, and Much More

Fences for Pasture & Garden

Gail Damerow

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)

Barbara Kingsolver,

 These were already in our library,

The Encyclopedia of Country Living: An Old Fashioned Recipe Book by Carla Emery

Country Women: A Handbook for the New Farmer by Jeanne Tetrault and Sherry Thomas

The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!

        Small-Scale Livestock Farming: A Grass-Based Approach for Health, Sustainability, and Profit

          How to Raise Goats by Carol A. Amundson

 These are just a few of the books that I think every homsteader should have in their library.This list doesn't include the gardening and herbal medicine books in our library. I plan on getting all the Storey's Guides that we will need.What are your favorite books you think should be in a homesteaders library?