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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 195 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,701 ratings — published 2009
The Encyclopedia of Country Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,164 ratings — published 1977
The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,101 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 — 2,536 ratings — published 2008
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,135 ratings — published 2007
Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,772 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 — 968 ratings — published 2009
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.05 — 113,768 ratings — published 2007
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,944 ratings — published 2001
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,515 ratings — published 2006
Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,898 ratings — published 2008
The Backyard Homestead Guide To Raising Farm Animals (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.25 — 710 ratings — published 2011
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,787 ratings — published 1995
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,778 ratings — published 1995
Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.80 — 646 ratings — published 2011
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,310 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 — 1,798 ratings — published 1998
Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,689 ratings — published 2006
The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.37 — 800 ratings — published 2013
Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,745 ratings — published 2011
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
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,402 ratings — published 2009
Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,016 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 — 2,303 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 — 1,331 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 — 601 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 — 2,027 ratings — published 1970
All New Square Foot Gardening (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,800 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 — 1,236 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
The Small-Scale Poultry Flock: An All-Natural Approach to Raising Chickens and Other Fowl for Home and Market Growers (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.54 — 513 ratings — published 2011
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 — 2,071 ratings — published 2007
Barnheart: The Incurable Longing for a Farm of One's Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,568 ratings — published 2011
Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,000 ratings — published 1975
Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats: Breeds, Care, Dairying (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.24 — 600 ratings — published 2000
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 — 1,714 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 — 1,412 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 New Complete Book Of Self Sufficiency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.45 — 784 ratings — published 1975
The Snow Child (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.02 — 179,989 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 — 701 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
The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,304 ratings — published 1989
Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.53 — 3,615 ratings — published 2012
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
Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as homesteading)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,134 ratings — published 2010
Introduction to Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,263 ratings — published 1991
Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as homesteading)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,055 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 — 921 ratings — published 2012
“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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“[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 responsibility for her own life?”
― Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity
― Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity
