Can you feel it? Spring is right around the corner! It seems difficult to fathom when you are knee-deep in snow but there is life brimming below the earth surface in anticipation of the warm breezes that will heading our way. Now is the best time to pick up some farm fresh books to read to help you plan your garden, get ideas for crafts, discover new recipes or even prepare to start beekeeping this Spring.
These are a few of my new favorite selections on my bookshelf, I hope they inspire you to think lovely thoughts of Spring and to pick up a new hobby or two!
Always Look on the Bright Side: Celebrating Each Day to the Fullest
Over 500 lovely suggestions for living life to the fullest. A fabulous way to begin your renewal in Spring.
Backyard Beekeeper – Revised and Updated, 3rd Edition
Backyard Beekeeper makes the tradition of beekeeping an enjoyable and accessible backyard pastime that will appeal to gardeners, crafters, and cooks everywhere. The expanded edition gives you even more information on “greening” your beekeeping with sustainable practices, pesticide-resistant bees, and urban and suburban beekeeping.
Body Into Balance: An Herbal Guide to Holistic Self-Care
Learn to use herbs effectively as an integral part of your daily self-care routine for treatment of diseases and improvement of well-being.
Buck, Buck, Moose is the first comprehensive, lushly photographed, full-color guide to working with and cooking all forms of venison, including deer, elk, moose, antelope and caribou.
Cable Left, Cable Right: 94 Knitted Cables
Expert knitter Judith Durant, eliminates the mystery of cable patterns with detailed, in-depth instructions for creating 94 different styles of cable, from perfectly plain to fantastically fancy
With 45 ready-to-color pages include a mixture of intricately hand-lettered phrases and charming scenes of farm life and outdoor beauty — including chickens, honey bees on flowers, and barns. It’s a great pick for sustainable chicks who love the adult coloring book craze!
Discover new ways to serve ingredients you already have in your pantry, fridge or freezer.
Every Which Way Crochet Borders: 139 Patterns for Customized Edgings
Crocheting is our DIY passion this year and this book offers step-by-step instructions and symbol charts for 139 creative new border designs within reach for beginning and advanced crocheters alike. If you’re ready to chart your own crocheted course, Edie Eckman offers plenty of helpful design advice, including how to choose an appropriate border for each project and how to incorporate an element from the main stitch pattern into a new border design.
Want to learn more about gardening, preserving, and raising rock star chicks? Be sure to also check out my book, Getting Laid: Everything You Need to Know About Raising Chickens, Gardening and Preserving with Over 100 Recipes!
The first guide to timber framing written specifically for beginners.
Information about healing included highly targeted regimens of nutrition, supplements, and lifestyle adjustments, with fruits and vegetables playing a major role.
Chock full of traditional Southern favorites and updated delights.
Natural Color: Vibrant Plant Dye Projects for Your Home and Wardrobe
Using sustainable methods and artisanal techniques, designer, artist, and professor Sasha Duerr details achievable ways to apply these limitless color possibilities to your home and wardrobe.
Natural Hair Coloring: How to Use Henna and Other Pure Herbal Pigments for Chemical-Free Beauty
Natural hair care expert Christine Shahin shows you how to use nontoxic plant pigments — henna, indigo, amla, and cassia — to color your hair naturally, whatever your hair type or ethnicity.
Lighthearted yet authoritative, Spit That Out! cuts through the information overload, sorts cloth from disposable, and empowers readers to make simple but impactful changes.
The Help Yourself Cookbook for Kids
60+ easy plant based recipes kids can make to stay healthy and save the world
The Homestead Planner & Logbook: Record All Your Important Information for Easy, One-Stop Reference
Easily keep track of the work you’ve put into your homestead or small farm – or figure out the work you need to put into it – with the help of this convenient planner. Ideal for homesteaders and small farmers working anything from 2 to 40 acres.
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Do you have any new farm fresh books for Spring reading on your bookshelf? Please feel free to share and suggest!
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I don’t have a specific book in mind but I need to get me a good patio read for Spring!
I so want to read The Rooster Bar by John Grisham.
thank you
Barbara Montag
I don’t! But I read every single day, I love to read.
I want to re-read The Stand.
I want to read Chaos by Patricia Cornwell.
I would love to read I’ll Be Your Blue Sky by Marisa de los Santos
Some great ideas there I’m thinking Body Into Balance: An Herbal Guide to Holistic Self-Care would be a great read
the art of the deal
I’d love to read Fall From Grace from Danielle Steel.
I like them all but my first choice is Body Into Balance: An Herbal Guide to Holistic Self-Care.
I would like to read Melissa’s Southern Cookbook
The entire Wildcard series again.
I would love to read a new cookbook this and find some good recipes for Easter.
I want to read Chaos by Patricia Cornwell.
Out of the ones you listed, I think I would like to read Melissa’s Southern Cookbook. I am cookbook obsessed!!
I want to read Fall From Grace by Danielle Steel
I’ve just started reading Y Is For Yesterday by Sue Grafton.
I don’t have any specific book that I want to read. I go to Amazon and choose what looks good at the time. thank you!
A biography of MIlton hersHey
I would love to find a good book on Amazon to read about traveling with kids/toddlers/babies
Always Look on the Bright Side: Celebrating Each Day to the Fullest sounds like a good one or harry potter books!
I would love to read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
I plan to read Body Into Balance: An Herbal Guide to Holistic Self-Care –thank you for the suggestion!
I would like to read Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton.
I’d like to read the Eishenhorn Trilogy
17th suspect by James Patterson
The Stand
I want to read Sleeping Beauties by Stephen & Owen King.
Accidental Hero by Danielle Steel
I would like to read Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.
I would love to read Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film.
I want to read the maze runner series
I want to read Fire and Fury
I enjoy cookbooks so hoping to read the pioneer woman’s newest cookbooks.
I am reading the Hannah Swensen Mysteries by Joanne Fluke. I am on book 4 with 18 to go plus 2 releases in 2018. My spring list is full!
I’m finishing up The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks. I have dvd saved on Netflix for when I finish it.
Raspberry Danish Murder
I’d like to read the Every Which Way Crochet Borders: 139 Patterns for Customized Edgings this Spring. Thanks for the giveaway!
I would love to read The Cruel Prince by Holly Black. Thanks for the giveaway!
The Murder House
From your list the “Cupboard To Table Cookbook” looks interesting…
My daughter read wonder, and we watched the movie, so I would love to read the book as well!
I’d like to read how to timber frame so I can learn how to get started
I would like to read Hillary Clinton’s book.
I really haven’t thought about it.
The Great Alone.
I want to read The Light Between Oceans
I am currently working my way through the David Baldacci novels.
I want to read An American Family.
I would like to read Dan Brown’s Origin.
Am not sure as yet which book to read it’s hard to choose
Maybe the Hena book; not sure exactly what book, maybe evern a good mystery.
World War Z
A good mystery would be fun to read.
I would love to read any of Elin Hildebrand’s more recent books as I have enjoyed her early work and have to catch up on the ones she’s had out over the past few years.
Fall From Grace from Danielle Steel.
Scourged by Kevin Hearne. It comes out in April, so I have a wait! 🙂
I want to read Milk and Honey.
I’d like to read 99 Red Balloons
I would love to read through the Cable Left, Cable Right: 94 Knitted Cables book! I have been learning to knit but I haven’t tackled cables yet!
I want to read 99 Red Balloons!
I wouldn’t mind re-reading Confessions of a Shopaholic
I want to read Colleen Hoover’s new book. Thank you
The bible.
I would love to read through the cupboard to table book. I’m always looking for some new and exciting recipes to try out, what better way than to use the items you already have on hand!
I would love to read your book and The Homesteader Planner
I’d like to read God is an Englishman” By Delderfield
I need to read All the Light We Cannot See
I have just started re-reading the Red Wall series as an encouragement to helping a neighbor with learning to enjoy reading.
Molly’s Game is on my list 🙂
Learn to timber frame sounds good.
Every Which Way Crochet Borders: 139 Patterns for Customized Edgings
I’d love to read a baseball book called Diamonds in the Rough, but I accidentally left it on an airplane 8 years ago and haven’t been able to find another copy since.
Always look on the bright side sounds like a great book to read to start your day!
I’d like to read “5 Conversations You Must Have With Your Daughter” by Vicki Courtney.
I am thinking about reading the Series of Unfortunate Events series.
Fire and Fury!
I would like to check out “Medical Medium Life-Changing Foods: Save Yourself and the Ones You Love with the Hidden Healing Powers of Fruits & Vegetables”.
I want to read Outlander this spring.
I want to read The Disaster Artist
I would love to read The Homestead Planner & Logbook: Record All Your Important Information for Easy, One-Stop Reference. We bought a farm so this would be a fabulous resource.
I would like to read Fall From Grace.
i want to read the silent wife and milk and honey
I’d love to read Always Look on the Bright Side: Celebrating Each Day to the Fullest.
tales of known space by larry niven
I haven’t decided yet.
not sure yet.
There isn’t any one specific book I have on a list. I want to read a good, buckle your seatbelt and hold on tight, sci-fi thriller. Thanks.
I would love to read Nicholas Sparks book Forever My Girl.
I’m starting a book on Georgia O’Keefe that my husband got me for Christmas. The weather has been perfect here for reading a bit outside in the afternoon.
I’d like to read a new mystery book this spring
I’ll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara I’m buying it!
I am going to have to get a copy of the Homestead Planner & logbook.
I want to win The Girl on the Train.
I just started the Steele series by Helen Hardt. I have read the first two. I’d love to read the next in that series.
I would love to go through Melissa’s Southern Cookbook!
I would like to read Natural Hair Coloring: How to Use Henna and Other Pure Herbal Pigments for Chemical-Free Beauty.
I would love to read Body Into Balance: An Herbal Guide to Holistic Self-Care
Would like to read The Stand.
I don’t know – there are too many great ones coming out.
I would like to read Cupboard To Table Cookbook
Melissa’s Southern Cookbook for sure.
I’d like to read The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah.
“Lincoln in the Bardo” by George Saunders!
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
Cupboard To Table Cookbook
!!! Sounds suuuper handy and inspirational.
Anything by Robyn Carr.
I want to read the book “Every Day”.
Cupboard To Table Cookbook
I’d like to read the Writer’s Market 2018.
The Help Yourself Cookbook for Kids—> listed on this page. My son needs to learn better cooking skills.
Just purchased this one to read —> Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Steve Coll
I could really use this one: The Homestead Planner & Logbook: Record All Your Important Information for Easy, One-Stop Reference
Thanks for the contest.
slehan at juno dot com
Out of the ones you mentioned the book “Learn to Timber Frame ” sounds interesting and useful! Thanks and God Bless! ILuvTheEucharist @ aol dot com
I want to catch up on books written by Karen Kingsbury.
One of the ones I would like to read is he Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
want to read The Rooster Bar by John Grisham love his books
I would like to read The Thirst by Jo Nesbo
I would like to read A Plague of Giants.
I would say The Hobbit.
I’m not sure yet but summer fun.
Getting Laid: Everything You Need to Know About Raising Chickens, Gardening and Preserving ― with Over 100 Recipes!
I’m looking into getting chickens.
I am looking at reading The Great Gatsby in depth once again for the twelfth time this coming month.
I want to read The Hunger Games.
It’s hard to pick one book that I am anxious to read, but I am trying to read through the whole series of The Chronicles of St. Mary’s by Jodi Taylor.
I’m wanting to read A Wrinkle in Time soon. Especially with the new movie coming out.
want to read Chaos.
I’m going to read unbroken
It by Stephen King is a book I have been wanting to read.