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The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre! (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,687 ratings — published 2009
The Encyclopedia of Country Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,163 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 — 2,099 ratings — published 1973
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 — 2,534 ratings — published 2008
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,131 ratings — published 2007
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 73 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.89 — 964 ratings — published 2009
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,935 ratings — published 2001
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.05 — 113,469 ratings — published 2007
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,498 ratings — published 2006
Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,899 ratings — published 2008
The Backyard Homestead Guide To Raising Farm Animals (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.25 — 709 ratings — published 2011
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,787 ratings — published 1995
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,773 ratings — published 1995
Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.80 — 644 ratings — published 2011
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,253 ratings — published 2010
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 — 1,786 ratings — published 1998
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 — 4,717 ratings — published 2011
Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,680 ratings — published 2006
The Weekend Homesteader: A Twelve-Month Guide to Self-Sufficiency (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.82 — 749 ratings — published 2012
The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.37 — 799 ratings — published 2013
Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,014 ratings — published 1999
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,391 ratings — published 2009
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,297 ratings — published 1990
The Winter Harvest Handbook: Four Season Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,328 ratings — published 2009
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 — 598 ratings — published 2012
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 — 2,022 ratings — published 1970
All New Square Foot Gardening (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,784 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 — 1,235 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 — 692 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 — 2,060 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 — 512 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 — 1,566 ratings — published 2011
Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,995 ratings — published 1975
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 4.44 — 781 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 4.07 — 1,712 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 — 1,411 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 — 178,335 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 — 2,131 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 — 1,072 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 — 624 ratings — published 2011
Introduction to Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,262 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 — 1,300 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 — 6,047 ratings — published 2001
Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.53 — 3,595 ratings — published 2012
Free-Range Chicken Gardens: How to Create a Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.11 — 918 ratings — published 2012
“We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.”
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“The fact that we heated most of the old farmhouse with nothing but a woodstove was a source of great pride for my father and endless inspiration for witticisms like, “Chop your own wood it’ll warm you twice!”
― The Way I Heard It
― The Way I Heard It
