Just note with the encyclopedia of country living, much of the advice is outdated and all of it is very much depending on where you live.
For example, the saying where I live is an acre and a half for a cow and a calf. Where my folks live you need closer to 10 acres for the two animals.
The USDA has hyper local guides for native and garden plants and native and farmed animals. Mostly in PDF so they can be easily printed.
Best resource are the people who lived it. My grandfather was 102 when he passed and (when I could get him to stop talking about world war 2 for five minutes) filled in a lot of blanks for me in old time food storage.
My number one piece of advice for people learning this stuff: Nursing home activity staff know who the residents are who grew up on farms and in the country and are DESPERATE for volunteers. Go to a home and ask to spend time with those residents. That's what I do. It's how I learned most of the wild craft skills I have. The residents love it, it helps the community, and you learn.
Correct. "Indigenous plants/animal [insert state] USDA" brings up good listings on Google, too.
Your county extension probably has all the guides in print form for you, generally for free.
The farm animal and plant guides are in the resources for new farmers. They're buried and I can't find them back, but they're there.
Good to know. I'm trying to dig up direct links to those USDA guides.
I mostly value the Encyclopedia of Country Living for it's old world skills (canning, food preservation, etc), but I'm fortunate also to live in a rural area with a lot of farmers and I have ready access to relatives and friends who are well-versed in those old world skills and they've been happy to teach them to me.