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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 — 5,637 ratings — published 2009
The Encyclopedia of Country Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,138 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 — 2,089 ratings — published 1973
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,132 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 — 2,536 ratings — published 2008
Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,762 ratings — published 1979
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,898 ratings — published 2001
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.05 — 112,576 ratings — published 2007
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,446 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 — 952 ratings — published 2009
Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,898 ratings — published 2008
The Backyard Homestead Guide To Raising Farm Animals (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.26 — 697 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 — 1,778 ratings — published 1995
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens: Care / Feeding / Facilities (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,757 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 — 18,079 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 — 1,742 ratings — published 1998
The Weekend Homesteader: A Twelve-Month Guide to Self-Sufficiency (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.83 — 737 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 — 4,593 ratings — published 2011
Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.29 — 9,603 ratings — published 2006
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 — 10,363 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 — 1,008 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 — 2,293 ratings — published 1990
The Winter Harvest Handbook: Four Season Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,316 ratings — published 2009
All New Square Foot Gardening (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.16 — 9,592 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 Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,006 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 — 1,229 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 — 543 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 4.19 — 2,022 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 — 506 ratings — published 2011
Barnheart: The Incurable Longing for a Farm of One's Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,551 ratings — published 2011
Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats: Breeds, Care, Dairying (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.23 — 594 ratings — published 2000
The New Complete Book Of Self Sufficiency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.45 — 758 ratings — published 1975
Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,951 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 — 1,709 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 — 1,410 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 — 2,122 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 — 167,734 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 — 5,996 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 — 1,065 ratings — published 1981
Introduction to Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,251 ratings — published 1991
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 4.15 — 184 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 — 918 ratings — published 2012
Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.94 — 893 ratings — published 2010
“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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“My ducks give me eggs, and I took two of those eggs and nurtured them under a dome to produce two ducklings. In a way, I am their mother, and I think Hallmark should make a special card to honor me.”
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