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Homesteading Books
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The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre! (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,672 ratings — published 2009
The Encyclopedia of Country Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,162 ratings — published 1977
The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,100 ratings — published 1973
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as homesteading)
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 95 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,536 ratings — published 2008
Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,770 ratings — published 1979
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 71 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.89 — 965 ratings — published 2009
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,934 ratings — published 2001
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.05 — 113,254 ratings — published 2007
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,490 ratings — published 2006
Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,896 ratings — published 2008
The Backyard Homestead Guide To Raising Farm Animals (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.25 — 706 ratings — published 2011
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,789 ratings — published 1995
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,769 ratings — published 1995
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,232 ratings — published 2010
Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.80 — 646 ratings — published 2011
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,777 ratings — published 1998
Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,664 ratings — published 2006
Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,685 ratings — published 2011
The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.37 — 796 ratings — published 2013
The Weekend Homesteader: A Twelve-Month Guide to Self-Sufficiency (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.82 — 746 ratings — published 2012
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,382 ratings — published 2009
Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,012 ratings — published 1999
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,299 ratings — published 1990
Little House in the Suburbs: Backyard farming and home skills for self-sufficient living (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.07 — 596 ratings — published 2012
The Winter Harvest Handbook: Four Season Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,328 ratings — published 2009
The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,018 ratings — published 1970
All New Square Foot Gardening (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,771 ratings — published 1981
Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,232 ratings — published 1999
Barnyard in Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, and Cattle (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.04 — 691 ratings — published 2002
Five Acres and Independence: A Handbook for Small Farm Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.99 — 546 ratings — published 1972
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,050 ratings — published 2007
The Small-Scale Poultry Flock: An All-Natural Approach to Raising Chickens and Other Fowl for Home and Market Growers (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.54 — 511 ratings — published 2011
Barnheart: The Incurable Longing for a Farm of One's Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,563 ratings — published 2011
Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats: Breeds, Care, Dairying (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.24 — 599 ratings — published 2000
The New Complete Book Of Self Sufficiency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.45 — 779 ratings — published 1975
Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,982 ratings — published 1975
How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,710 ratings — published 1979
The Quarter-Acre Farm: How I kept the patio, lost the lawn, and fed my family for a year (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,414 ratings — published 2011
Home Cheese Making: Recipes for 75 Delicious Cheeses (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,410 ratings — published 2002
The Snow Child (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.02 — 175,934 ratings — published 2012
The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.18 — 696 ratings — published 2010
Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,130 ratings — published 2010
Reader's Digest Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,070 ratings — published 1981
Chick Days: An Absolute Beginner's Guide To Raising Chickens From Hatchlings To Laying Hens (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.15 — 623 ratings — published 2011
Introduction to Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,259 ratings — published 1991
The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,296 ratings — published 1989
Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,036 ratings — published 2001
Free-Range Chicken Gardens: How to Create a Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.11 — 922 ratings — published 2012
Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.93 — 898 ratings — published 2010
“I declare to goodness, I don't know but sometimes I believe in women's rights. If women were voting and making laws, I believe they'd have better sense. (Mrs. McKee to Laura regarding the homestead laws)”
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“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.”
― The Well
― The Well
