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
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
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)
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
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love
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"
388 books — 237 voters

The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla EmeryThe Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It by John SeymourSeed to Seed by Suzanne AshworthThe Backyard Homestead by Carleen MadiganBall Blue Book Guide to Preserving by Ball Corporation
Homesteading
282 books — 108 voters

The Bloated Belly Whisperer by Tamara Duker FreumanIt Starts with Food by Dallas HartwigThe Whole30 by Melissa UrbanWhat's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective ... by Martha Char LoveBreaking the Vicious Cycle by Elaine Gottschall
Best Books for Gut Unf*cking
51 books — 38 voters
Let's Call It a Doomsday by Katie HenryLast Girls by Demetra BrodskyIt's the End of the World as I Know It by Matthew LandisPrepped by Bethany MangleThe World Ends in April by Stacy McAnulty
Doomsday Prepping in YA Fiction
22 books — 5 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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