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The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,104 ratings — published 1973
The Encyclopedia of Country Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,174 ratings — published 1977
The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre! (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,712 ratings — published 2009
The New Complete Book Of Self Sufficiency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.45 — 790 ratings — published 1975
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,150 ratings — published 2007
The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,537 ratings — published 2008
All New Square Foot Gardening (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,822 ratings — published 1981
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 15 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.90 — 973 ratings — published 2009
Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.27 — 348 ratings — published 2010
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,977 ratings — published 2001
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)
by (shelved 13 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.42 — 564 ratings — published 1978
The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.18 — 701 ratings — published 2010
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,791 ratings — published 1995
Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,780 ratings — published 1979
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,548 ratings — published 2006
Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,016 ratings — published 1999
Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,077 ratings — published 1977
Little House in the Suburbs: Backyard farming and home skills for self-sufficient living (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.07 — 603 ratings — published 2012
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.77 — 208,352 ratings — published 1854
Barnheart: The Incurable Longing for a Farm of One's Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,569 ratings — published 2011
The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,040 ratings — published 1970
Country Wisdom & Know-How (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.34 — 983 ratings — published 2004
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.05 — 114,379 ratings — published 2007
The Forgotten Arts and Crafts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.28 — 270 ratings — published 1984
Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.93 — 898 ratings — published 2010
Self-Sufficiency: A Complete Guide to Baking, Carpentry, Crafts, Organic Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More! (Self-Sufficiency Series)
by (shelved 9 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.42 — 159 ratings — published 2010
The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,376 ratings — published 2006
Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,239 ratings — published 1999
Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,899 ratings — published 2008
The Self Sufficient-ish Bible: An Eco-living Guide for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.95 — 172 ratings — published 2008
The Essential Urban Farmer (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.15 — 273 ratings — published 2011
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,731 ratings — published 1988
SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,716 ratings — published 1986
Just in Case: How to be Self-Sufficient when the Unexpected Happens (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.85 — 495 ratings — published 2008
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,306 ratings — published 1990
Make Your Place: Affordable, Sustainable Nesting Skills (DIY)
by (shelved 7 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,276 ratings — published 2007
Good Life Lab: Radical Experiments in Hands-On Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.69 — 495 ratings — published 2013
Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,284 ratings — published 2010
Small Scale Grain Raising: An Organic Guide to Growing, Processing, and Using Nutritious Whole Grains, for Home Gardeners and Local Farmers (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.17 — 323 ratings — published 1977
Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.53 — 3,664 ratings — published 2012
Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival (Bushcraft Survival Skills Series)
by (shelved 7 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,454 ratings — published 2014
Homegrown Whole Grains: Grow, Harvest, and Cook Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rice, Corn and More (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.05 — 173 ratings — published 2009
Lost Crafts: Rediscovering Traditional Skills (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.68 — 222 ratings — published 2009
Reader's Digest Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,078 ratings — published 1981
The Winter Harvest Handbook: Four Season Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,331 ratings — published 2009
One-Woman Farm: My Life Shared with Sheep, Pigs, Chickens, Goats, and a Fine Fiddle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.80 — 889 ratings — published 2013
How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,292 ratings — published 2009
The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.37 — 803 ratings — published 2013
Where There Is No Dentist (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.06 — 184 ratings — published 1983
Worms Eat My Garbage: How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as self-sufficiency)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,686 ratings — published 1982
“For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves”
― The Book of Bright Ideas
― The Book of Bright Ideas
“What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
