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
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills
The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables
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)
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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
DIY Hydroponic Gardens by Tyler BarasAquaponic Gardening by Sylvia BernsteinHydroponic Food Production by Howard M. ReshHydroponics by Andy JacobsonField Guide to Urban Gardening by Kevin Espiritu
hydroponics and aquaponics
17 books — 2 voters
Surviving The Cuts, And Other Disasters by Korban BlakeEasy Food Dehydrating and Safe Food Storage by Susan GastThe New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency by John SeymourDuct Tape 911 by James   HubbardThe Ultimate Situational Survival Guide by Robert   Richardson
Best Prepper-Homesteading Books
18 books — 9 voters

The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Knots & Ropework by Geoffrey BudworthComplete Book of Decorative Knots by Geoffrey BudworthThe Book of Camping Knots by Peter  OwenThe Bluejacket's Manual by U.S. Department of the NavyThe Ashley Book of Knots by Clifford W. Ashley
Practical Knots & Knotting
17 books — 4 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

Jonathan Raban
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.
Jonathan Raban, Bad Land: An American Romance

Emily Matchar
[Leslie Bennett] You have a teenager who desperately wants to separate...If you don't have a career, these New Domesticity types are likely to find themselves standing in the kitchen with all these domestic skills and no outlet for them, no way to earn a living.... [A]t that point your kids are not thanking you for having made the hand-pureed baby food and for giving them homemade cookies. They don't feel you've done them a big favor; they say, "Why didn't she ever grow up and take responsibilit ...more
Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity

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