The Self-Sufficient Home: How to Provide for Your Family and Prepare for the Unexpected

by Nancy Hoffman

Your guide to self-sufficient living in today's world!

Whether you're looking to lead a healthier life, protect the environment, or save money, The Self-Sufficient Home will show you how to transition from your current lifestyle to a self-sufficient one with hundreds of tips that you can start doing right now. You'll not only improve your day-to-day life with these basic living skills, but will also prepare yourself for any disaster that might arise in your area. Complete with advice and detailed instructions for living more simply, this book teaches you everything you need to know about building a self-sufficient home, such With The Self-Sufficient Home , you'll be able to keep your family healthy, safe, and happy as you rediscover the simple--and secure--pleasures of a self-sufficient lifestyle.

Genres: Nonfiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published July 31, 2014

Reviews

[Two Readers in Love · Rating 2 out of 5]

A high-level guide that would be useful for someone in the early planning stages of considering a move towards a more self-sufficient lifestyle, but you would need to much more research to actually implement most of the ideas in the book.

For instance, the author introduces you to the concept of geothermal heat but does not do a geothermal versus solar use-case scenario, cost comparison, practical land and structure considerations, etc.

[Marcy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very useful and informative!

[Jacob Goldberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent overview of all the different ways to be more sustainable. Enough info to give you insight into what you can investigate further without bogging you down with too many details

[Kayla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Informative and interesting, this is a great book for anyone looking into how to create a home to live on their own, without too much reliance on outside sources. It does seem to assume that you have a decent amount of land in order to do this, but as long as you remember to take what you need at the moment and expand from there, this is a great guide to follow. I will definitely be reading it again.

[Patricia · Rating 1 out of 5]

If you know anything at all about homesteading or self-sufficiency, you know more than this book will tell you. Granted, it does have a semi-detailed set of instructions for processing chickens and/or turkeys, but that's followed by a useless section on butchering hogs. There are many better resources out there... this is the Reader's Digest Condensed version and not worth it.