Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind
In his insightful new book, Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind, contrary farmer Gene Logsdon provides the inside story of manure-our greatest, yet most...
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The Art of Natural Cheesemaking: Using Traditional, Non-Industrial Methods and Raw Ingredients to Make the World’s Best Cheeses
Including more than 35 step-by-step recipes from the Black Sheep School of Cheesemaking Most DIY cheesemaking books are hard to follow, complicated, and confusing, and...
Foxfire 5: Ironmaking, Blacksmithing, Flintlock Rifles, Bear Hunting, and Other Affairs of Plain Living (Foxfire (Paperback))
First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether...
Maximizing Your Mini Farm: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
Mini farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family’s food on just...
The Backyard Homestead Book of Building Projects: 76 Useful Things You Can Build to Create Customized Working Spaces and Storage Facilities, Equip the … Animals, and Make Practical Outdoor Furniture
Gardeners, small farmers, and outdoor living enthusiasts will love this compilation of 76 rustic DIY projects. From plant supports and clotheslines to a chicken coop,...
Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living
The urban homesteading movement is spreading rapidly across the nation. Urban Homesteading is the perfect "back-to-the-land" guide for urbanites who want to reduce their impact...
Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture, 2nd Edition
Today's beekeepers face unprecedented challenges, a fact that is now front-page news with the spread of "colony collapse disorder." Newly introduced pests like varroa and...
The Naturally Bug-Free Garden: Controlling Pest Insects without Chemicals
Are you sick and tired of pesky insects in your garden? Do you want to stay away from pesticides and harmful poisons that could be...
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability
David Holmgren brings into sharper focus the powerful and still evolving Permaculture concept he pioneered with Bill Mollison in the 1970s. It draws together and...
How to Make Money Homesteading: So You Can Enjoy a Secure, Self-Sufficient Life
Check out startacheesebusiness.com for a great course on self-sufficient income!Wouldn't you like to escape the hectic pace of modern life and enjoy a worry-free, self-reliant lifestyle? A lifestyle...
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (Back to Basics Guides)
The classic guide to self-sufficiency, with more than 200,000 copies sold—now fully updated!Anyone who wants to learn basic living skills—the kind employed by our forefathers—and...
My Life In The Wilderness: An Alaskan’s Story
Robert Hilliker was born in the southern Lower Peninsula of Michigan, in the late 1920's, just before the Great Depression of 1929 and the 1930's....
The New Self-Sufficient Gardener
This revised edition of an old favorite, first published in 1978, explains how to cultivate and preserve all types of fruit, herbs, and vegetables, in...
The New Cider Maker’s Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for Craft Producers
All around the world, the public’s taste for fermented cider has been growing more rapidly than at any time in the past 150 years. And with...
Create Your Own Florida Food Forest
If you've been fighting with your Florida garden, you're doing it wrong! Florida wants to be covered in forest, not grass and annuals. Picture yourself...
The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading: An Encyclopedia of Independent Living (The Ultimate Guides)
Can you make your own bread (sans bread machine)? Grow a garden all winter? What can you use instead of toilet paper? What if the...
When Disaster Strikes: A Comprehensive Guide for Emergency Planning and Crisis Survival
Disasters often strike without warning and leave a trail of destruction in their wake. Yet armed with the right tools and information, survivors can fend...
Foxfire 6 (Foxfire (Paperback))
First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether...
The Chicken Whisperer’s Guide to Keeping Chickens: Everything You Need to Know . . . and Didn’t Know You Needed to Know About Backyard and Urban Chickens
Are you looking for a great way to reconnect with the earth, the community, and your food sources? Keeping backyard chickens is a fun, simple...
Backyard Homesteading: A Back-to-Basics Guide to Self-Sufficiency (Gardening)
Backyard Homesteading addresses the needs of many people who want to take control of the food they eat and the products they use--even if they...
