Reference Books

I’ve always adored books and have a good collection.  So when I started working on new skills, the first thing I thought of was getting some good reference books.  But a lot of them were borrowed and returned leaving my reference shelf bare.  So I’ve slowly been adding to my collection and trying to fill in gaps.  Here is what I have now.

Do you keep a reference collection?  I’d love to hear what you have or hear any feedback if you think I’m missing anything.

UPDATED 6/20/10 Now that I’m buying dry goods in bulk and have all those home dehydrated and canned goods in my pantry, I’ve added a bunch of pantry cooking books to the collection.
UPDATED 4/12/10 Thinking of the upcoming garden and added a couple books on cooking vegetables.

• Adventures in Sourdough Cooking & Baking
• The Amazing Wheat Book – Info on: gluten (wheat meat), grains, breads, cookies, seasonings, sauces, breakfast cereals, vegetarian dishes, and more! Details … and hundreds of healthy nutritious recipes.
• Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills, Third Edition
• The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!
• The Candlemaker’s Companion: A Complete Guide to Rolling, Pouring, Dipping, and Decorating Your Own Candles
• Chickens: A Beginner’s Handbook (from backwoods home)
• The Complete Book of Small-Batch Preserving: Over 300 Recipes to Use Year-Round
• Cookin’ with Home Storage
• Country Beans – 2nd Edition
• Dinner Is In The Jar: Quick and Easy Dinner Mixes in Mason Jars or Mylar Bags (bw)
• Edible Wild Plants: A North American Field Guide to Over 200 Natural Foods
• The Encyclopedia of Country Living
• Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
• Home Cheese Making: Recipes for 75 Delicious Cheeses
• The Joy of Pickling, Revised Edition: 250 Flavor-Packed Flavor-Packed Recipes for Vegetables and More from Garden or Market
• Natural Meals In Minutes – High-Fiber, Low-Fat Meatless Storage Meals-in 30 Minutes or Less!
• The New Organic Grower: A Master’s Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (A gardener’s supply book)
• Ortho’s All About Herbs (Ortho’s All About Gardening)
• Respect the Spindle: Spin Infinite Yarns with One Amazing Tool
• Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners
• Soapmaker’s Companion: A Comprehensive Guide with Recipes, Techniques & Know-How (Natural Body Series – The Natural Way to Enhance Your Life)
• Vegetable Love
• Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook
• The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses