Homestead


The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!
The Encyclopedia of Country Living
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics Guide
The Backyard Homestead Guide To Raising Farm Animals
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills
Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach
All New Square Foot Gardening
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners
Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
Barnyard in Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, and Cattle
The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
Desert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyPilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie DillardWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauThe Good Life by Scott NearingFire Season by Philip Connors
Homestead Memoirs
125 books — 10 voters

A Field Guide to the Ecology of Eastern Forests by John C. KricherReading the Forested Landscape by Tom WesselsBotony in a Day by Thomas J. ElpelIndian New England Before the Mayflower by Howard S. RussellTree Crops by J. Russell Smith
Poor Proles Almanac
34 books — 1 voter
Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauPest Control for Organic Gardening by Amber RichardsOff Grid by BackwoodsStronghold by BackwoodsThe Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
Living in the Middle of Nowhere
70 books — 24 voters

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeHatchet by Gary PaulsenElderberries by Alicia BayerBy the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Best How To Survive Books
84 books — 41 voters
Still Points North by Leigh  NewmanCabin by Eric   WadeRough Waters by Nancy Danielson MendenhallThe Great Alone by Kristin HannahRinn's Crossing by Russell Heath
Rural Alaska
52 books — 10 voters

Charles Frazier
I passed out cigars to the men, and we lit them with a twig caught alight in the fire and passed the bottle around. Charley was doing most of the talking, telling a hunting story from the days of elk and bison, neither of which anyone in attendance except Charley had ever seen. He made them epic animals in his story, inhabitants of an old and better world not to come around again. He then told of his lost farmstead at the old mound village of Cowee, before one of the many disastrous treaties had ...more
Charles Frazier , Thirteen Moons

Jarod Kintz
You need skills to be good at homesteading. You need farming, carpentry, and above all, you need to be able to impersonate Elvis. When society collapses, that’s probably what will save your life.
Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

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