Recommended Reading

These are free online texts. If you know have any of your own recommendations, let us know and we will add them to our list!

Community Gardening 101 from FoodShare

Day Range Poultry by Andrew W. Lee, Patricia Foreman & Gene Logsdon
Domestic Animals by Richard Lamb Allen

First Lessons in Beekeeping

Five Acres and Independence A Handbook for Small Farm Management by Maurice Grenville Kains

Food From the Wild by Ian Burrows

Growing and Using Herbs and Spices by Milo Miloradovich

Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms by Paul Stamets

How to Grow More Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops by John Jeavons

Organic Gardener's Composting by Steve Solomon

Permaculture in a Nutshell by Patrick Whitefield

Pioneer Days in the Township of Nipissing

Plants and Beekeeping by F. N. Howes

Rare Breeds {Livestock} by Lawrence Alderson

Reap Without Sowing: Wild Food from Nature's Cornucopia by Erika E. Gaertner

Reflections of Restoule by June Hample

Small Farm Handbook by Shirley Humphrey & Eric Mussen

Starting a Community Garden

Starting From Seed by Karan Davis Butler

The Apple Grower: A Guide for the Organic Orchardist by Michael Phillips

The Backyard Beekeeper by Kim Flottum & Weeks Ringle

The Basics of Permaculture Design by Ross Mars

The Book of Draft Horses by Donna Campbell Smith

The Book of the Farm by Henry Stephens & John S Skinner

The Complete Book of Herbs and Spices by Sarah Garland

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

The First Book of Farming by Charles L. Goodrich

The Green Pharmacy by James Duke

The Herbalist's Way by Nancy Phillips, Michael Phillips & Rosemary Gladstar

The Household Book of Practical Receipts by George W M Reynolds

The Household Cyclopedia by Thomas Kelly

The Illustrated Horse Management by Edward Mayhew

The Manual of Women

The Permaculture Garden by Graham Bell

The Permaculture Way by Graham Bell

The Ultimate Container Garden by David Joyce

The Wild Vegetarian Cookbook by Steve Brill

The Woodland Way: A Permaculture Approach to Sustainable Woodland Management by Ben Law

The Young Farmer, Some Things He Should Know by Thomas Forsyth Hunt

Roasted Root Veggies & Maple Syrup

For the northern locavore, a whole winter of eating root veggies can get boring. The good news is that we are currently at the tail end of maple syrup season, and this was a fantastic year for it in this region.

Here is a recipe with ingredients that can be found here in this region at this time of year (including the maple syrup!).


Roasted Veggies & Maple Syrup

3 Russet Potatoes
2 Large Carrots
2 Large Parsnips
1/2 a Rutabaga
1 Yellow Onion
1 Tablespoon Butter
3 Tablespoons Maple Syrup
Dried Mint (to taste)
Dried Sage (to taste)
Freshly-ground Pepper (to taste)

Roast in the oven at 350 for about one hour.

It's great with a couple of scrambled eggs and mint tea!

A take on a recipe from Laurel's blog.