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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 also made many television programmes: an early series followed the footsteps of George Borrow's Wild Wales (1862). In the early 1980s he spent three years making the BBC series Far From Paradise (with Herbert Girardet) which examined the history of human impact on the environment.Self-sufficiency is a way of life that provides you with the resources to meet your needs and become more independent. Homesteading is one way of achieving this goal, as it requires very little money but can help you on your journey to becoming self-sufficient. The Razor Edge Book of Sharpening by John Juranitch ~ If you don’t think the art of knife sharpening needs a whole book, then you’re probably doing it wrong. This is everything you need to know about the topic, and it’s well written. Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking: The Ultimate Guide for Home-Scale and Market Producers by Gianaclis Caldwell ~ An incredible guide that really dives deep into the “why” of cheesemaking. It’s less a recipe book, and more a technical book that will allow you to understand what’s happening in the cheesemaking process start to finish for just about every style of cheese. Foxfire Books ~ For over 40 years students interviewed homesteaders in Appalachia and learned their way of life. These books include everything from how to slaughter a hog to glazing homemade pottery with wood ash, and thousands of other things. They also include a lot of heritage, old stories, superstition, music and folklore. 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 Do-able Off Grid Homesteadby Sharon Stronger ~ Sharon lives in a 100% hand built off grid homestead in Texas, and her family has done everything from the ground up on a tight budget. If you don’t have a lot to spend, you really want to read this one before trying to go off grid. I’ll be honest, I’ve found very few good preparedness books. If you really want a “preparedness book” then what you actually need is more or less this whole library. I know, that’s not very many…and I’ve found precious few alternative energy books worth reading. If you have any suggestions, please by all means, leave them in the comments. Kristin and her (now) husband Mark, went all-in on a full-service CSA while also navigating the travails of learning to live together and plan a wedding. Their story, from Kristin’s wry perspective, makes for a dramatic and memorable memoir that proves the adage whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. When you use your kitchen to make homemade meals, cheese, vinegar extractions, fermented vegetables, elderberry wine, or bread from scratch just about every day, it’s near impossible to keep it looking like a showplace. So, for me, Sharon’s real-life homesteading approach to greater self-sufficiency and a different way to appreciate beauty make me feel better about my own efforts.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. Perennial Vegetables by Eric Toensmeier ~ Covering more than 100 types of perennial vegetable, this will really open your eyes to unique food crops that you can plant once and harvest for a lifetime. We grow more than 30 Perennial Vegetables on our homestead, even though we’re in a cold zone 4, and it’s thanks to this book. The Noma Guide to Fermentation ~ Written by the people that run the famous restaurant Noma, this guide has some really detailed high scale fermentation recipes. They can only be described as artisanal, and though it’s a good read for the true fermentation devotee, it’s well beyond what the average person is going to choose to make in their home kitchen. Still an excellent guide if you’re really into fermenting, and I used their artisanal technique for making apple cider vinegar. Just about every “prepper” book has at best a 2 paragraph summary of each of the topics discussed here, along with some incredibly bad advice about treating gun wounds with tampons. Updated Tenth Edition. Coinciding with the fortieth anniversary of the book’s beginning, all resource information has been brought up to date.
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