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Homesteading Books
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The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre! (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,646 ratings — published 2009
The Encyclopedia of Country Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,141 ratings — published 1977
The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,095 ratings — published 1973
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,137 ratings — published 2007
The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,537 ratings — published 2008
Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,764 ratings — published 1979
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,909 ratings — published 2001
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.05 — 112,771 ratings — published 2007
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,463 ratings — published 2006
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)
by (shelved 69 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.89 — 951 ratings — published 2009
Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,897 ratings — published 2008
The Backyard Homestead Guide To Raising Farm Animals (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.26 — 699 ratings — published 2011
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,783 ratings — published 1995
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens: Care / Feeding / Facilities (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,761 ratings — published 1995
Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.80 — 643 ratings — published 2011
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,117 ratings — published 2010
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,749 ratings — published 1998
Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.29 — 9,613 ratings — published 2006
The Weekend Homesteader: A Twelve-Month Guide to Self-Sufficiency (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.82 — 739 ratings — published 2012
Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,611 ratings — published 2011
The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.36 — 793 ratings — published 2013
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,369 ratings — published 2009
Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,007 ratings — published 1999
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,291 ratings — published 1990
All New Square Foot Gardening (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.16 — 9,602 ratings — published 1981
Little House in the Suburbs: Backyard farming and home skills for self-sufficient living (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.06 — 593 ratings — published 2012
The Winter Harvest Handbook: Four Season Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,322 ratings — published 2009
The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,009 ratings — published 1970
Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,230 ratings — published 1999
Barnyard in Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, and Cattle (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.04 — 690 ratings — published 2002
Five Acres and Independence: A Handbook for Small Farm Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.99 — 544 ratings — published 1972
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,028 ratings — published 2007
The Small-Scale Poultry Flock: An All-Natural Approach to Raising Chickens and Other Fowl for Home and Market Growers (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.54 — 508 ratings — published 2011
Barnheart: The Incurable Longing for a Farm of One's Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,556 ratings — published 2011
Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats: Breeds, Care, Dairying (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.24 — 596 ratings — published 2000
The New Complete Book Of Self Sufficiency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.45 — 763 ratings — published 1975
Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,961 ratings — published 1975
How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,711 ratings — published 1979
The Quarter-Acre Farm: How I kept the patio, lost the lawn, and fed my family for a year (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,411 ratings — published 2011
The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.19 — 693 ratings — published 2010
Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,125 ratings — published 2010
Home Cheese Making: Recipes for 75 Delicious Cheeses (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,406 ratings — published 2002
The Snow Child (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.01 — 168,887 ratings — published 2012
Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,008 ratings — published 2001
Chick Days: An Absolute Beginner's Guide To Raising Chickens From Hatchlings To Laying Hens (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.15 — 622 ratings — published 2011
Reader's Digest Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,066 ratings — published 1981
Introduction to Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,252 ratings — published 1991
The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,283 ratings — published 1989
The Woodland Homestead: How to Make Your Land More Productive and Live More Self-Sufficiently in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.16 — 185 ratings — published 2015
Free-Range Chicken Gardens: How to Create a Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.11 — 920 ratings — published 2012
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“Aspirins and sleeping pills are not going to cure America's tensions although they may help temporarily. To get at the real source of our anxieties we must find serenity within ourselves.”
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“From the moment that the first plow blade bit into the crust, the homesteaders began to destroy the foundations of their new life, and in a very few years the crust was gone--used up, scattered, blown away by the dry summer winds.”
― Bad Land: An American Romance
― Bad Land: An American Romance
