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
The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills
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
Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living
Growing Perennial Foods by Acadia TuckerSeasons at the Farm by Shaye ElliottHam for the Holidays by Christina ToschDelicious Deep Fryer Recipes by Daniel HumphreysThe Fruit Forager's Companion by Sara Bir
Cooking from the Garden
42 books — 7 voters

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

Depletion & Abundance by Sharon AstykThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinPermaculture by Bill MollisonGaia's Garden by Toby HemenwayPest Control for Organic Gardening by Amber Richards
Life after the oil crash (nonfiction)
48 books — 39 voters
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeHatchet by Gary PaulsenElderberries by Alicia BayerBy the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Best How To Survive Books
84 books — 41 voters

Everyone across America had the same idea at the same time. Chickens became the toilet paper of the spring.
Melissa Gilbert, Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered

Catherine Chanter
The medieval mystics had a word for it—derelict. It's a good word, conjuring up as it does empty stables with their rotting planks leaning outwards like gaping teeth, their innards just rusting machinery and corroded pipework. Dereliction. The state of not being cared for. ...more
Catherine Chanter, The Well

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