Self Sufficiency


The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics Guide
The Encyclopedia of Country Living
The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!
The New Complete Book Of Self Sufficiency
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills
The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
All New Square Foot Gardening
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)
Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
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)
The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners
Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
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
Easy Food Dehydrating and Safe Food Storage by Susan GastThe Prepared Home Every Day by Melissa  GeorgePutting Food By by Ruth HertzbergSeasons at the Farm by Shaye ElliottOff Grid and Free by Ron Melchiore
Best Prepper-Homesteading Books
18 books — 9 voters

Pest Control for Organic Gardening by Amber RichardsMy First Travel Angelic Airline Adventures by Anna OthitisAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverRoots by Diane MorganSaving the Season by Kevin  West
Reading Together 2014
23 books — 11 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

Coco Chanel
It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused ...more
Coco Chanel

Sandra Kring
For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves
Sandra Kring, The Book of Bright Ideas

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