From Amazon.com - From planning an expedition, to packing essential kits, to discovering what to do on a trail, The Survival Handbook is an invaluable tool when you’re in the great outdoors.Among a myriad of outdoor skills, it teaches readers how to make shelters, find water, and spot, catch, and cook wild food. And if there’s an emergency, it shows which essential first-aid techniques to use when, how to mount a rescue, and even how to get yourself found. 7. Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre – In a long-term, grid down, WROL situation the ability to maximize food production on your land – whatever the size – will be essential. This books contains volumes of information on doing just that. One of my personal favorites and given to me by my brother.

Via Amazon.com – Start a mini farm on a quarter acre or less, provide 85 percent of the food for a family of four and earn an income.

Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family’s food on just a quarter acre—and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require. Even if you have never been a farmer or a gardener, this book covers everything you need to know to get started: buying and saving seeds, starting seedlings, establishing raised beds, soil fertility practices, composting, dealing with pest and disease problems, crop rotation, farm planning, and much more. Because self-sufficiency is the objective, subjects such as raising backyard chickens and home canning are also covered along with numerous methods for keeping costs down and production high. Materials, tools, and techniques are detailed with photographs, tables, diagrams, and illustrations.

 8. The Forager’s Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants – Unless you posses the knowledge and skills to identify that which you can eat in the woods – this book is for you.

Via Amazon.com - A practical guide to all aspects of edible wild plants: finding and identifying them, their seasons of harvest, and their methods of collection and preparation. Each plant is discussed in great detail and accompanied by excellent color photographs. Includes an index, illustrated glossary, bibliography, and harvest calendar. The perfect guide for all experience levels.

 #9. Encyclopedia of Country Living, 10th Edition – Another information packed book to assist living in a tie without electricity and other “modern” resources. Excellent addition to the preparedness bookshelf.

Via Amazon.com - This book is phenomenal! Besides offering general information on
gardening and variations on the usual ways to prepare and preserve
produce, Carla Emery includes thousands of other exotic and old
fashioned recipes. That alone would be remarkable, but she doesn’t stop
there. She covers information on every aspect of farming and
homesteading from buying a farm to delivering your own baby—yes, if you
are all alone when you go into labor!

Here is a general idea of what she includes, as well as some of the
weirder specifics:

How to get water – dowsing, getting it to your farm, using it, pollution
concerns
Living primitively – shelter, backwoods refrigeration, campfire kitchens
Alternative energy – information and resources, using a solar cooker (We
have one, and they really do work.)
Washing clothes by hand
Quilting
Candle making – paraffin and beeswax
Foraging – also poisonous plants and mushrooms
Wood – harvesting, heating, wood cook stoves
Fertilizing your soil
Raising earthworms for gardening, bait, or money making
Using draft horses and oxen
Grain (all kinds!) – planting; mowing by hand; binding sheaves and making
shocks to cure them;
threshing by hand, with animals, or machinery; winnowing; drying;
storing; grinding; and protecting from pests
Preserving food – canning, freezing, drying, salting, larding, fermenting,
jams and juices, making vinegar
Saving seeds for next year plants
Herbs – culinary, not medicinal
Pressing oil from seeds
Acorns – making meal and flour
Bamboo – growing, recipes, and various other uses
Wild Rice – foraging and growing your own
Flax – growing and making linen
Maple sugaring – collecting sap and making syrup
Dandelion root or chicory coffee
Beekeeping – keeping bees, harvesting and using wax and honey
Animals
Raising, feeding, and caring for all types of livestock
Building barns, fences, chicken coops, rabbit hutches, etc.
Pastures, forage, hay, feeds
Predator control
Diseases and veterinary care
Reproduction from breeding to births
Dehorning, castrating, hoof trimming
Sheep shearing and using wool
Pigs – housing, fencing, and how to catch a pig!
Rabbit raising
Poultry – chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, guineas; hatching chicks;
preserving eggs and testing them for safety; using feathers
Dairying – milking and milk handling; all types of dairy products; cream
separators and butter churns
Butchering – preserving meat; making sausage, soap, and lard; tanning
hides; making pickled pig feet!
Home funerals and burying your dead 

#10. Holy Bible – no explanation should be needed.

Any other suggestions? Glad my shelf holds more than 10!!

Take care all - 

Rourke