A guide for the modern homesteader, this covers energy efficiency, finding and pumping your own water, keeping chickens, goats, bees, and other critters, and much more from a practical hands-on perspective.
GET THERE Decide how far off the grid you want to get, choose your spot, and take the plunge (or adapt these hints to a more suburban or even urban lifestyle)
Stake Your Claim
Gimme Shelter
Water or Life
The Heat Is On
Power Up
LIVE THERE Ensure you have enough to eat on a daily basis, and all year round.
More than Meals
Veggies for All
Fruits and Nuts
Amber Waves of Grain
Backyard Critters
Get Your Goat
Have a Cow, Man
Fish & Bugs
SURVIVE THERE Eat nature's bounty, build a safe house, and nurse yourself back to health
The Long Haul
Hunt & Fish
Level Up
Safe as Houses
Be Your own Doctor
Bug Out!
Into the Wild
With high-quality design, amazing illustrations—this comprehensive lifestyle book is the perfect gift!
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781681884707
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Weldon Owen
Publication Date: 05-14-2019
Pages: 224
Product Dimensions: 6.70(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)
About the Author
Tim MacWelch is the New York Times bestselling author of Prepare for Anything, Hunting & Gathering, and How to Survive Anything, and Winter Survival Handbook. He is Outdoor Life magazine's survival blogger. He is also the founder and head instructor of Advanced Survival Training School; where he teaches ordinary people how to detach from the grid and live closer to nature, and how to use those skills in any number of emergencies. For over 110 years, Outdoor Life has provided outdoor and urban survival expertise to millions of readers. Their authors have written on everything from disaster preparedness to subsistence hunting and fishing, to which guns to use against the undead (really!).
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