Homesteading

Wildlife biologist J. Wayne Fears teaches readers how to: Buy or lease suitable land; assemble a free, professional land management team; source reliable building supplies; design a pond and well; make a fire ring and bean hole for cooking with cast iron; design proper sanitation; and defend the homestead. ...

A colorful overview of homesteading for the complete novice, describing how to ramp up gradually from urban to suburban, and finally rural self-sufficiency.

A lone artist learns from books and friends to build herself a cabin, paddle a canoe, start a subsistence garden, and survive on minimal income in the remote mountains of British Columbia.

A 21-day schedule to ramp up for the coming troubles and shelter in place, if you can't bug out.

Textbook companion to LaMar Alexander's Simple Solar Homesteading videos on YouTube.com. Off the Grid teaches self-sufficiency to those on a tight budget, living in a cold climate.

From Booklist - Is living a simple life a solution for coping with chaotic times? Is it even possible today? In 1997, conservation biologist Ackerman-Leist and and his wife, Erin, moved into an old 12-x-28-foot New England cabin lacking electricity and running water, and found, over seven years, that homesteading...

The $50 & Up Underground House Book teaches how to build the lowest cost, most sunshine-filled, best ventilated and driest underground houses of all. It teaches how to incorporate greenhouses, root cellars and fallout shelters into an underground home. It covers both hillside and flat land design, and explains how...

From Amazon - Has the threat of urban terrorism, debacles like the disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans or just the general hassle of city life got you thinking about moving to the country? Good idea, but before you pull up stakes, here's a chance to learn about...

From Amazon - With wit, wisdom, and down-home good sense, country-living expert GeRue provides the definitive, nuts-and-bolts guide for finding a home in the country. 300 illustrations. 90 maps.

In the 1970s Dolly Freed lived of the land dirt cheap and plum easy. Living in their own house on a half-acre lot outside of Philadelphia for almost five years, Dolly and her father produced their own food and drink and spent roughly $700 each per year. Thirty years later...