The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency: The classic guide for realists and dreamers

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This book is the ultimate guide for traditional food and lacto-fermenting! It describes the relationship between gut and brain health and why you need to prepare grains and legumes in a certain way for optimum benefits. It also contains recipes for enzyme rich and probiotic laden foods and beverages and why they are good for your gut health. Sally Fallon thoroughly covers the topic of nourishing your body from the inside in a very big way! I can’t get enough of the probiotic ketchup recipe (tomato sauce for you Australians!), try it out! 4. The Encyclopedia Of Country Living- By Carla Emery

If you want to read a fascinating story about two “makers” opting out of consumer culture and creating a new kind of wealth with waste, this is the book for you. Not only is it totally beautiful with lots of drawings and inspirational ideas, but it can help you change the way you think about what you have to buy. Rye from the Water's Edge (1996). Rye: Academic Inn Books. (with illustrations by Connie Lindquist) Betsy Matheson keeps it simple and practical, as you can easily follow along with the process of new DIY projects like building greenhouses, garden beds, root cellars, solar systems, rainwater irrigation systems, and beehives. The late, great Gene Logsden was known as a kind of a curmudgeon. He was pretty skeptical about modern agriculture and had quite a few strong opinions about how we should provision ourselves. But his writings are so accessible and inspirational that I always feel like he’s an old friend. Here we cover how to have a frugal home:- saving money, saving energy and making better use of your resources like the garden to grow your own or provide extra living space.Far from Paradise - the story of man's impact on the environment (1986). London: BBC Publications. (with Herbert Girardet) As the cold sets in and some parts of homesteading slow down for the season, I like to take mental vacations to other homesteads and farms through reading. Here are a few of my favorite inspirational reads for cold-weather that I hope will inspire you too! If you think you don’t have enough room to grow sufficient food on your postage stamp property, this book is for you. Two single guys buy a duplex on a run-down lot in town and turn it into a garden of eating. How can that not be an interesting read?

John was as much at home in the humblest house on a hillside, as in the manor house of landed gentry. He was like a force of nature, always willing to listen, always interested in learning about new — or very old — ways of working the land. He was a one-man rebellion against modernism. Herbert Girardet, 2005. [1] Bibliography [ edit ] This is one of the best, most famous books for self sufficient homesteaders, bushcrafters, and all types of people who care about self reliance.

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This book is more than just practical advice, as it gives you illustrated examples of how to perform tasks. The illustrations go so far as to break down accurate floor plans for a new home. In this work, he shared tons of great ideas for a home garden, home economics, and inspiration from people who are truly living simple and good lives. He offers views on how we can make a better world. Mostly though, this is a very accessible account of how to be a homesteader and love and care for your land. It’s all in good fun to learn how to do even one DIY project, and this book can fittingly be called a “springboard book” as it introduces you to self-sufficiency without taking many hits to your wallet.

The Nearings reasons for becoming self-sufficient were both personal and political. But their experience has proved useful to generations of us who have followed in their footsteps. With lots of practical advice, interspersed with lessons in living well, this classic still has enormous value today. Proto-Ninth Edition. All 12 chapters thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded. Chapters called “Sours” and “Home Industries” integrated with other chapters. Chapters called “Introduction to Plants” and “Bee, Rabbit, Sheep, and Pig” added. “Sweets” chapter renamed “Tree, Vine, Bush, and Bramble,” “Meats” now called “Introduction to Animals.” First time book ever printed on white paper. Bound like eighth edition. Sixth–Seventh Edition. Half new paging and half old paging; rewrites added. Index dropped due to confused paging; 4,000 mimeo copies started November 22, 1976. Ambitious enough to add a well to your off-grid home? Want to dye your own wool with plant pigments? Want to craft a hutch table with hand tools?There are lots of us out there trying to find a better way to live. We all have different ways to go about it. Reading each others’ stories, learning from those who have taken the path before us, and opening our minds to new ideas are great ways to enhance your homesteading skills in a hurry. What do you get when you cross a New York City journalist with a purist organic farmer? Disaster in the most delicious ways! Using completely non-traditional farming methods and working with nature, Sepp has built one of the most beautiful bio-diverse places you can imagine. With ponds and streams and lupine filled ancient grain fields, his farm is a veritable paradise on earth.

This book is a wonderful mix of personal stories, useful farm tips, and hope that we can change our farming practices and our relationship with nature and still eat like Gourmands. This book also takes you through the authors’ own experience gathering knowledge from the likes of ancient Parisienne market gardeners, John Jeavons, Eliot Coleman, and beyond. Even though the basic storylines start roughly the same – e.g. get fed up, try something new – each person’s experiences from that point forward are totally different. To me, the completely unique ways we all approach the same basic idea of self-sufficiency are fascinating.The Book of Boswell - autobiography of a gypsy (1970). London: Gollancz. (Author: Silvester Gordon Boswell, Ed. John Seymour) No self-respecting homesteader’s reading list would be complete without the most influential self-sufficiency biography ever written. The Nearings have influenced just about every other author on this list in some ways. Despite the fact that I eat, sleep, live and breath homesteading, I love to read about other people’s adventures in this alternative lifestyle. Tales of crazy individuals leaving behind their big city jobs and seeking a new way of life, more connected with nature and our food supply, are something I can totally relate to!