Brooklyn Forager

This book gave me my first taste of canning and preserving.  It serves as an invaluable resource for the basics of food preservation.

I love working through the farmers' market seasons with this book.  Deborah Madison is a local food icon and has created a beautiful and interesting masterpiece.

This is the basic set of tools that I use in my fledgling canning attempts.  It really has everything you will need to get started with minimum financial investment.

Prepare to hear about this magazine a lot.  Each issue features varied information about new clean ingredients and healthy tasty recipes.  It includes a 14-day eating plan in each issue for those who want to really get serious about eating clean and aren't sure where to start. (Note: this link goes to a single issue, but the whole magazine is available through Amazon or www.cleaneatingmag.com)

Barbara Kingsolver's memoir of a year eating as locally as she can, mainly from her own produce and preserved goods.  For me, this was the game changer.  This is what I aspire to be able to do one day.