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Off On Our Own

Living Off-Grid in Comfortable Independence: One Couple's ""Learn as We Go"" Journey to Self-Reliance

by Ted Carns ...

Ted and Kathy Carns live in the picturesque Laurel Highlands region of western Pennsylvania. They have most of the usual modern conveniences: fridge, freezer, washer, computer, cell phone, hot tub, vacuum, hair dryer, flat screen TV with surround sound...and they do it all without plugging into the power grid. Their house is wood-heated, their fuel is non-petrol; they grow their own food, put up ... Read more

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Ted and Kathy Carns live in the picturesque Laurel Highlands region of western Pennsylvania. They have most of the usual modern conveniences: fridge, freezer, washer, computer, cell phone, hot tub, vacuum, hair dryer, flat screen TV with surround sound...and they do it all without plugging into the power grid. Their house is wood-heated, their fuel is non-petrol; they grow their own food, put up
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When The Grid Goes Down

Disaster Preparations and Survival Gear For Making Your Home Self-Reliant

by Tony Nester ...

Disasters come and go each year. It is through developing a self-reliant mindset, having essential survival gear and a handful of critical skills, that you and your family will be able to prevail in an urban crisis. Jammed with field-tested information from real-world applications, survival instructor Tony Nester covers how to prepare for both short-term survival ranging from 24-72 hours as well ... Read more

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Disasters come and go each year. It is through developing a self-reliant mindset, having essential survival gear and a handful of critical skills, that you and your family will be able to prevail in an urban crisis. Jammed with field-tested information from real-world applications, survival instructor Tony Nester covers how to prepare for both short-term survival ranging from 24-72 hours as well
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The Weekend Homesteader

A Twelve-Month Guide to Self-Sufficiency

by Anna Hess ...

The Weekend Homesteader is organized by month—so whether it’s January or June you’ll find exciting, short projects that you can use to dip your toes into the vast ocean of homesteading without getting overwhelmed. If you need to fit homesteading into a few hours each weekend and would like to have fun while doing it, these projects will be right up your alley, whether you live on a forty-acre farm ... Read more

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The Weekend Homesteader is organized by month—so whether it’s January or June you’ll find exciting, short projects that you can use to dip your toes into the vast ocean of homesteading without getting overwhelmed. If you need to fit homesteading into a few hours each weekend and would like to have fun while doing it, these projects will be right up your alley, whether you live on a forty-acre farm
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Getting Started in Permaculture

54 Projects for Home and Garden

by Ross Mars, Jenny Mars ...

A very practical, down-to-earth primer with step-by-step guides packed with diagrams and illustrations for garden projects: includes mulching, mandala gardens, raised beds, ponds, walls, cold frames, animal tractors, a solar still, hothouses, a haybox cooker, farming earthworms, tractor tyre ponds and DIY fertilisers. ... Read more

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A very practical, down-to-earth primer with step-by-step guides packed with diagrams and illustrations for garden projects: includes mulching, mandala gardens, raised beds, ponds, walls, cold frames, animal tractors, a solar still, hothouses, a haybox cooker, farming earthworms, tractor tyre ponds and DIY fertilisers.
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How to Stay Alive in the Woods

A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter and Self-Preservation Anywhere

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A practical guide for outdoor activities, this classic resource by a wilderness expert is packed with illustrated survival skills and advice.Broken down into four essential sections, Sustenance, Warmth, Orientation and Safety, this useful manual reveals time-tested outdoor skills, including how to catch game without a gun, what plants to eat (full-color illustrations of these make identification ... Read more

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A practical guide for outdoor activities, this classic resource by a wilderness expert is packed with illustrated survival skills and advice.Broken down into four essential sections, Sustenance, Warmth, Orientation and Safety, this useful manual reveals time-tested outdoor skills, including how to catch game without a gun, what plants to eat (full-color illustrations of these make identification
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Little House in the Suburbs

Backyard farming and home skills for self-sufficient living

by Deanna Caswell, Daisy Siskins ...

A beginner's guide to self-sustainability in the suburbsGardens, goats and chickens in the suburbs? Absolutely!The easy-to-follow advice in this book will show you everything you need to know to enjoy an abundant, independent life on food and products grown in your own back yard. You may feel like you have superpowers the first time you prepare a meal using only ingredients you grew in your garden ... Read more

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A beginner's guide to self-sustainability in the suburbsGardens, goats and chickens in the suburbs? Absolutely!The easy-to-follow advice in this book will show you everything you need to know to enjoy an abundant, independent life on food and products grown in your own back yard. You may feel like you have superpowers the first time you prepare a meal using only ingredients you grew in your garden
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beekeeping

Everything the Budding Beekeeper Needs for a Healthy, Productive Hive

by Dean Stiglitz, Laurie Herboldsheimer ...

The buzz on beekeeping.The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Beekeeping has all the information a beginning beekeeper needs to know to start a hive and keep it buzzing. Expert beekeepers Dean Stiglitz and Laurie Herboldsheimer, owners of Golden Rule Honey, take readers step by step through the entire process-from information on the inhabitants of a hive and how it works to collecting bees, keeping them ... Read more

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The buzz on beekeeping.The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Beekeeping has all the information a beginning beekeeper needs to know to start a hive and keep it buzzing. Expert beekeepers Dean Stiglitz and Laurie Herboldsheimer, owners of Golden Rule Honey, take readers step by step through the entire process-from information on the inhabitants of a hive and how it works to collecting bees, keeping them
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The Heart of Simple Living

7 Paths to a Better Life

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The Heart of Simple Living is your road map to a more balanced life—a life centered on self-discovery.Fewer possessions. More time. More friends. More meaning. This book will help you identify objectives for your life and create awareness of your actions and finances, while planning for your future.This inspirational book delivers seven tangible and actionable paths, woven together with real-life ... Read more

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The Heart of Simple Living is your road map to a more balanced life—a life centered on self-discovery.Fewer possessions. More time. More friends. More meaning. This book will help you identify objectives for your life and create awareness of your actions and finances, while planning for your future.This inspirational book delivers seven tangible and actionable paths, woven together with real-life
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Putting Food By

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by Ruth Hertzberg, Janet Greene, Beatrice Vaughan ...

“The bible of home canning, preserving, freezing, and drying.”—The New York TimesFor decades, Putting Food By has been the one-stop source for everything the home cook needs to know about preserving foods—from fruits and vegetables to meat and seafood. Now, this classic is fully up-to-date with the twenty-first-century kitchen. Whether you’re preserving to save money or to capture the taste of ... Read more

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“The bible of home canning, preserving, freezing, and drying.”—The New York TimesFor decades, Putting Food By has been the one-stop source for everything the home cook needs to know about preserving foods—from fruits and vegetables to meat and seafood. Now, this classic is fully up-to-date with the twenty-first-century kitchen. Whether you’re preserving to save money or to capture the taste of
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Bees for Beginners (Bee Keeping Series)

by E. H. Taylor ...

This vintage book contains a complete guide to bee-keeping, with information on hive constructions and management, the natural history of bees, harvesting, swarming, and all other related aspects. Highly accessible and full useful tips, this book will be of considerable utility to the modern reader with an interest in keeping bees, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied ... Read more

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This vintage book contains a complete guide to bee-keeping, with information on hive constructions and management, the natural history of bees, harvesting, swarming, and all other related aspects. Highly accessible and full useful tips, this book will be of considerable utility to the modern reader with an interest in keeping bees, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied
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Lessons from Our Rocket Mass Heater

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A companion guide to the manuals about how to build a rocket mass heater. This book gives tips, lessons and resources acquired from an actual heater build. More of a "How we…" rather than a "How to…" type of book the reader will see dozens of photos, get links to blogs, forums, manuals, etc. ... Read more

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A companion guide to the manuals about how to build a rocket mass heater. This book gives tips, lessons and resources acquired from an actual heater build. More of a "How we…" rather than a "How to…" type of book the reader will see dozens of photos, get links to blogs, forums, manuals, etc.
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Dude Making a Difference

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How far would you go to save the planet? One man’s cross-country journey to radical sustainability.You want to do something for the planet, but what? Change a light bulb, install a low-flow faucet, eat organic? How about ride 4,700 miles across America on a bamboo bicycle, using only water from natural sources, avoiding fossil fuels almost completely, supplying your few electrical needs with solar ... Read more

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