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Self Sufficiency Books
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The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,100 ratings — published 1973
The Encyclopedia of Country Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,162 ratings — published 1977
The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre! (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,672 ratings — published 2009
The New Complete Book Of Self Sufficiency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.45 — 779 ratings — published 1975
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,167 ratings — published 2007
The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,536 ratings — published 2008
All New Square Foot Gardening (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,771 ratings — published 1981
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 15 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.89 — 965 ratings — published 2009
Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.27 — 347 ratings — published 2010
The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.18 — 696 ratings — published 2010
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,934 ratings — published 2001
The Self-Sufficient Gardener: A Complete Guide to Growing and Preserving All Your Own Food (Using the New Deep Bed Method to Grow More Food in Less Space)
by (shelved 12 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.42 — 556 ratings — published 1978
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,789 ratings — published 1995
Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,012 ratings — published 1999
Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,065 ratings — published 1977
Little House in the Suburbs: Backyard farming and home skills for self-sufficient living (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.07 — 596 ratings — published 2012
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,490 ratings — published 2006
Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,770 ratings — published 1979
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.77 — 204,638 ratings — published 1854
Barnheart: The Incurable Longing for a Farm of One's Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,563 ratings — published 2011
Country Wisdom & Know-How (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.34 — 980 ratings — published 2004
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.05 — 113,254 ratings — published 2007
The Forgotten Arts and Crafts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.28 — 266 ratings — published 1984
Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.93 — 898 ratings — published 2010
Self-Sufficiency: A Complete Guide to Baking, Carpentry, Crafts, Organic Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More! (Self-Sufficiency Series)
by (shelved 9 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.42 — 159 ratings — published 2010
The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,018 ratings — published 1970
The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,353 ratings — published 2006
Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,896 ratings — published 2008
The Self Sufficient-ish Bible: An Eco-living Guide for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.94 — 170 ratings — published 2008
The Essential Urban Farmer (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.15 — 274 ratings — published 2011
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,724 ratings — published 1988
SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,579 ratings — published 1986
Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,232 ratings — published 1999
Just in Case: How to be Self-Sufficient when the Unexpected Happens (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.85 — 492 ratings — published 2008
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,299 ratings — published 1990
Make Your Place: Affordable, Sustainable Nesting Skills (DIY)
by (shelved 7 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,275 ratings — published 2007
Good Life Lab: Radical Experiments in Hands-On Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.69 — 492 ratings — published 2013
Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,282 ratings — published 2010
Small Scale Grain Raising: An Organic Guide to Growing, Processing, and Using Nutritious Whole Grains, for Home Gardeners and Local Farmers (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.17 — 318 ratings — published 1977
Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.53 — 3,572 ratings — published 2012
Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival (Bushcraft Survival Skills Series)
by (shelved 7 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,341 ratings — published 2014
Homegrown Whole Grains: Grow, Harvest, and Cook Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rice, Corn and More (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.06 — 174 ratings — published 2009
Lost Crafts: Rediscovering Traditional Skills (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.67 — 220 ratings — published 2009
Reader's Digest Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,070 ratings — published 1981
One-Woman Farm: My Life Shared with Sheep, Pigs, Chickens, Goats, and a Fine Fiddle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.80 — 887 ratings — published 2013
How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,277 ratings — published 2009
The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.37 — 796 ratings — published 2013
Where There Is No Dentist (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.06 — 181 ratings — published 1983
Worms Eat My Garbage: How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,676 ratings — published 1982
Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-Ourselves Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.93 — 533 ratings — published 2008
“For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves”
― The Book of Bright Ideas
― The Book of Bright Ideas
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave. You may have all the splendours of the mind and the soul, in which case you're a noble slave, or an intelligent servant, but you're not free. And you can't hold this up as your own tragedy, for your birth is a tragedy of Fate alone. Hapless you are, however, if life itself so oppresses you that you're forced to become a slave. Hapless you are if, having been born free, with the capacity to be isolated and self-sufficient, poverty should force you to live with others.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
