Thank you for these very much. Sending love. 🫂💙🫂 This is very needed right now.

Willing to share knowledge gained from your Amish neighbors? I would really enjoy a video like that. Thank you for all that you do! 💖🙏🏼💖

Willing to share knowledge gained from your Amish neighbors? I would really enjoy a video like that. Thanks for your videos. Big fan of yours for years! 💖

Try roasting the radishes. It's a game changer.

Wow! I know I'm very late to this video, but I have to let you know that I've been a long-time subscriber and I lost your channel somehow but I'm so glad I found it again and that you're still making videos. ❤ I am super interested in sustainable living, homesteading and foraging, so watching your videos makes me feel less alone and like I found a kindred spirit. Thank you for sharing your life and being my inspiration for many years! 💖

I love watching your videos, you have such an easy peaceful way about you. I loved Animal Vegetable Miracle too, thank you for sharing your top 6 books. I love to read, always have and I love to hear other people's reviews so I can look for new books. I actually hope you share more of the books you read.

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I love Sam ! He’s such an inspiration, I have that book as well. Also I never thought about Ai writing foraging books. Ugh good to know now though!

Trusting AI is as bad as trusting opinionated "alternative news" sources.

❤ your videos! Realistic and not all negative but also not all perfect and positive either. Very authentic and balanced 😊 Rare to Find! Homestead Tessie is another really good one. Well Done and Thank you! 😊

Do you listen to Shannon's podcast? I absolutely love it

I don’t comment often anymore, but I still watch and love every one of your videos.

I agree with you on eating seasonally. And home grown produce taste so much better from the garden. I had a really nice garden in the backyard which I'll be doing again this year. My dad would come over just to come get my veggies from the garden lol. That's a 30 min drive for him to come by just for the veggies, lol. He did visit, but was he snacking on my tomatoes, he sure was, or eating my strawberries and blueberries from the garden while he visited, he sure did, lol. I had so many veggies that I had to share with my friends at the trailer and they could all tell the difference from Backyard garden veggies and the ones from the store. Hands down they loved the garden veggies better. I'll be adding to the garden this year, I'm so excited for it. Come on spring. :)

Great video. I’ve read Radical Homemakers and Barbara Kingsolver’s book and Braided Sweetgrass sound like books I’ll enjoy. As an Australian I can recommend a few great Permaculture and sustainable living authors including Linda Woodrow (Permaculture Home Garden inspired me years ago) and Rhonda Hetzel. Another favourite is Jenny Allen’s Paradise in Your Garden. Matthew Evan’s is a Tasmanian farmer who has written some great books that I actually need to read. Some of his may appeal to those living in colder climates. I’m in a sub tropical climate but still really enjoy your videos. Thank you for sharing.

Great recommendations. I have braiding sweet grass in my to read pile. If you are interested in plants, I just finished The Light Eaters. It's all about the biology of plants. It changed the way that I view plants and the natural world. It's not often that I come across a book that does that.

Awww I love many of these books also

Thank you! I have only read one of these and am very eager to get my hands on the others!

Gosh how do you know if it is a fake acting like a person or real? My gosh why is our world getting so scarey :( I actually ordered Babara's book right off the batt. Honestly I have followed a lot of everything for years and have learned a ton from you to, as you know I am sure, so I always love to just read and follow up and grow, even at 61...so if you love that book that much I know I have to read it :) I also dog ear etc., my books cookbooks included. I love finding a cookbook at any of my thrift etc., stores that they just left the tabls or bookmarks in the cookbooks with the person having loved a recipe. Usually those recipes are wonderful. I so enjoyed this. hugs

Lovage is amazing. I have a plant that’s taller than me. I’m in zone 5 in Ontario. I’m happy to save seeds and send it your way if your seeds don’t work out.

I have that same sixth sense with plants. I just see them and understand at some level.

Animal Vegetable Miracle was an inspiration for me as well. I've thought of it often since I read it in 2008.

I really enjoyed Farm City by Novella Carpenter. I also love Animal, Vegetable, Mineral! I actually scored Braiding Sweetgrass for free from a bookstore that was giving away books. I haven't read it yet though.

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I just ordered two of these on Audible. Thank you for the recommendations,

Have been following you for a long time. First time commenting but really love your way of life and how you do things and who you are. Loved the Animal, Vegetable, Miracle too! And I'm planning to get a couple of the other books. Thank for sharing.

I am planting flower bulbs for the first time! And this year I hope to finally get my luffa gourd harvest! I've failed the last 2 years 🫢😬

Thank you so much for making this video. I've been wanting to buy good books like this but I just didn't trust them. This is beyond helpful ❤

Thank you so very much I am new to all of this and I absolutely love that you shared the books that you have that you find the most information in I definitely will be checking out all these books and that will keep me through the winter here in New Hampshire in the United States it is snowy here and cold and we're getting a storm coming in Thursday stay safe you and your family you're such a blessing and so genuine to watch Thank you beyond words

This is so beautiful and inspiring. Thank you. I wish the world valued self reliance more. Even 10-20% self reliance would change so much of society and politics. I always wanted to read Animal, Vegetable Miracle, and now I will. Prodigal Summer and Small Wonder were big for me. *I just found out the library has it on audiobook, narrated by Barbara!

“Ignore my mess because I ACTUALLY live here” took me out 🤣 truth!! I’m so excited to see how your seeds do this year! I’m making plans to container garden again since I have limited space. Thanks for always being an inspo for that too! Anything I can grow in will be filled with some kind of food/flower

This is marvelous! Thank you for these recommendations - looking forward to adding a few to my list (some I already own - yay)!

It's funny how in English you say "dog ear" in books. In Belgium in Dutch we say "monkey ears". I've put the Barbara Kingsolver book on my to read list.

❤ Yes, I have Animal vegetable miracle.. I am going to put that on my night stand to read with my spouse. Thanks for your videos 😊❤🎉 I did read The Poison Wood Bible for a book club by her. I believe you have indigenous ancestry or are neurodivergent 😊I know I am both and it keeps me learning about the same things. 😊 Great Book List! Thank you! 😊

oh I need to go back to Braiding Sweetgrass, and I'll definitely check out the other books too

Is Radical Homemakers for only men and women or is it for all genders? I'm non-binary and the way you highlighted men and women made me question

Yeah! Thank you for sharing. I ❤ all your dog-ears in books.

Self reliance in combination with building community reliance like with how you trade with your neighbours is so important right now. We can't excel at everything so channeling our energy strategically in concert with our community is the happiest future ahead.

Yes, Braiding Sweetgrass is so wonderful! And Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is worth reading every year!😍

Thank you so much for these recommendations! I am off to explore them as they all look amazing.

There is something about us Ukrainians that love our herbs. lol My mom is the same too. Amazon is so problematic. Thriftbooks is the main place (for me) to go. Braiding Sweetgrass is that one book I've been hearing about forever but never got around to reading. I need to check it out. Have you read anything by Stephen Harrod Buhner? There is a ton of discussion about the medicinal use of herbs. You may like it.

Hi! I love this video! I love books too! And I love to Learn. All. The. Time! I have the Sam Thayer books! I ordered other 5 on eBay, and one on Amazon. I can’t wait to read them! I’ll probably start all 5 books at the same time! I roll like that! Thank you! Thank you! For making this video! I love it! 🤎🌻🤎🌻🤎🌻

Hi! I love this video! I love books too! And I love to Learn. All. The. Time! I have the Sam Thayer books! I ordered other 5 on eBay, and one on Amazon. I can’t wait to read them! I’ll probably start all 5 books at the same time! I roll like that! Thank you! Thank you! For making this video! I love it! 🤎🌻🤎🌻🤎🌻

Yasss braiding sweetgrass is so amazing

Your book recommendations have never failed... Thank you! The only one of these I've read, is Braiding Sweet grass and I love it! I just bought the " young adult " version for my teenage daughter... ( I'll probably read it too )

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Try french breakfast radishes. They grow quicker and not as strong. I like them with lime and salt.

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I thing you are awesome! I was vegetarian (only eat cheese) for many years and for me personnaly it damaged my health. Now i live on a beef farm, have my own milk cow (Poppy), do my own chickens and eggs (still have trouble to eat eggs cause the texture…) grow my veggies and apple and feed my animals with it too and goodness i feel you! It is so much work but wow i am so gratefull for it! If you want to connect i think we would have much to chat about! Take care

Nice barns!