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
Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables
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)
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life
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
Growing Perennial Foods by Acadia TuckerSeasons at the Farm by Shaye ElliottHam for the Holidays by Christina ToschDelicious Deep Fryer Recipes by Daniel HumphreysThe Fruit Forager's Companion by Sara Bir
Cooking from the Garden
42 books — 7 voters

The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Knots & Ropework by Geoffrey BudworthComplete Book of Decorative Knots by Geoffrey BudworthThe Book of Camping Knots by Peter  OwenThe Bluejacket's Manual by U.S. Department of the NavyThe Ashley Book of Knots by Clifford W. Ashley
Practical Knots & Knotting
17 books — 4 voters
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

DIY Hydroponic Gardens by Tyler BarasAquaponic Gardening by Sylvia BernsteinHydroponic Food Production by Howard M. ReshHydroponics by Andy JacobsonField Guide to Urban Gardening by Kevin Espiritu
hydroponics and aquaponics
17 books — 2 voters
Moosed Up by Tiffinie HelmerThis Girl Is Different by J.J.  JohnsonWildwood by Elinor FlorenceOff Grid and Free by Ron MelchioreEducated by Tara Westover
life off the grid
5 books — 4 voters

Laura Ingalls Wilder
I declare to goodness, I don't know but sometimes I believe in women's rights. If women were voting and making laws, I believe they'd have better sense. (Mrs. McKee to Laura, regarding homesteading laws) ...more
Laura Ingalls Wilder, These Happy Golden Years

There are many more ways we can adapt. For example, instead of using up our energies harping about big farmers (whom of course we need right now to provide enough food for all of us), buy your own little patch of land to turn into an oasis of food and wildlife abundance. More and more people are doing this rather than standing around wringing their hands about global warming. Your little sanctuary will not be prone to disappear when the inevitable financial crises hit the big commercial farms.
Gene Logsdon, Gene Everlasting: A Contrary Farmer's Thoughts on Living Forever

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