Homesteading


The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!
The Encyclopedia of Country Living
The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics Guide
The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills
Homesteading: A Backyard Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Medicine, and More (Back to Basics Guides)
Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
The Backyard Homestead Guide To Raising Farm Animals
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens
Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living
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
127 books — 13 voters
The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Knots & Ropework by Geoffrey BudworthComplete Book of Decorative Knots by Geoffrey BudworthThe Book of Camping Knots by Peter  OwenThe Ashley Book of Knots by Clifford W. AshleyThe Bluejacket's Manual by U.S. Department of the Navy
Practical Knots & Knotting
17 books — 4 voters

Eight Minutes by Gregory N. WhitisLet's Call It a Doomsday by Katie HenryLast Girls by Demetra BrodskyThe First State of Being by Erin Entrada KellyIt's the End of the World as I Know It by Matthew Landis
Doomsday Prepping in YA Fiction
23 books — 10 voters

This Girl Is Different by J.J.  JohnsonOff Grid and Free by Ron MelchioreMoosed Up by Tiffinie HelmerWildwood by Elinor FlorenceEducated by Tara Westover
life off the grid
5 books — 4 voters
Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonCradle to Cradle by William McDonoughThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Urban Homestead by Kelly CoyneThe Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Being "Green"
390 books — 243 voters

The homesteading generation's belief in education created the same Hobson's choice that so many farm families had to face. Children educated to become nurses, teachers, lawyers, pharmacists, insurance agents, doctors or police officers do not in general return to carry the family farm into the future. To use their education, they have to leave home and farming. And to complete this bittersweet irony, their children's success in other occupations were exactly what the homesteader generation had h ...more
Richard Edwards, Great Plains Homesteaders

Janisse Ray
Here in the country, on a little farm in southern Georgia, I am building a quiet life of resistance. I am a radical peasant, and every day I take out my little hammer, and I keep building.
Janisse Ray, The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food

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