Read this first!
Before you do anything.... Read the first book!
Farming on the Wild Side
by Nancy & John Hayden
I've been intensively no-till farming 3 acres for a decade. This book would have saved me years of time and thousands of dollars, doing stuff that I didn't need to be doing. I've read all the books.... Watched hours of youtube.... NOTHING beats the wisdom found in 'Farming on the Wild Side'... Nothing.
Spend the $25 bucks! - https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/farming-on-the-wild-side/
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Edible Forest Gardens - Volume One
Edible Forest Gardens - Volume Two
by Dave Jacke with Eric Toensmeier
Two book set, $100. Available in PDF format for free.
Here are two more books that are a great start to your library
Creating a Forest Garden
By Martin Crawford
$30, also available in PDF format for free.
This book covers all the plants of the seven layer forest garden in detail. Huge number of very useful reference tables by plant forest-layer and uses.
http://www.amazon.com/Creating-Forest-Garden-Working-Nature/dp/1900322625
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Regenerative Agriculture
By Richard Perkins - The new edition was published in 2020.
This isn't an inexpensive publication, but it's worth every penny. The 740 pages covers...
Farm design, water, agri-forestry, tree crops, mushrooms, no-dig market gardening, pasture chickens, egg mobiles, pasture pigs, market analysis and farm financial planning. Complete with facts & figures, charts and tables, profits for each farm enterprise... it will blow you mind!!!
THE MOST EXHAUSTIVE book ever written about profitable small farming.
Available here for about $75 US dollars - https://www.regenerativeagriculture.co/