Morgan Gold of Gold Shaw Farm shares his top literary picks for building a comprehensive and practical homestead library.

This modestly helpful guide by gardener Espiritu (Grow Bag Gardening) offers advice on how readers can be more self-sufficient by growing their own food, harvesting solar power, and reusing water.

Melinda Moustakis, author of the award-winning “Bear Down, Bear North,” a 2012 collection of Alaska-based short stories, has returned with a related novel. Set in the 1950s, “Homestead” is the story ...