Homesteading Resources
Urban Homesteading
Back-to-the-Land
Permaculture
Fermentation and Food Preservation
Home Dairy
Herbalism and Body Products
Bread Baking
Sprouting
Helpful Magazines
Homesteading Supplies
- The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen
- Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting by R.J. Ruppenthal
- Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-Ourselves Guide by Scott Kellogg, Stacy Pettigrew, and Juan Martinez
- Make Your Place: Affordable, Sustainable Nesting Skills by Raleigh Briggs
- Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture by Shannon Hayes
Back-to-the-Land
- At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America by Rebecca Kneale Gould
- Living on the Earth by Alicia Bay Laurel
Permaculture
- Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community by Heather Coburn Flores
- Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway and John Todd
- The Bealtaine Cottage in Ireland: http://permaculturecottage.wordpress.com/
Fermentation and Food Preservation
- Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods by Sandor Ellix Katz and Sally Fallon
- Well Preserved: Recipes and Techniques for Putting Up Small Batches of Seasonal Foods by Eugenia Bone
- Jam it, Pickle it, Cure it, and Other Cooking Projects by Karen Solomon
- Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation by The Gardeners and Farmers of Centre Terre Vivante, Deborah Madison, and Eliot Coleman
Home Dairy
- Home Cheese Making: Recipes for 75 Delicious Cheeses by Ricki Carroll
Herbalism and Body Products
- Rosemary Gladstar's Family Herbal: A Guide to Living Life with Energy, Health, and Vitality by Rosemary Gladstar
Bread Baking
- Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking by Jeff Hertzberg MD and Zoe Francois
- Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Jeff Hertzberg MD and Zoe Francois
Sprouting
- The Sprouting Book by Ann Wigmore
Helpful Magazines
- Mother Earth News: http://www.motherearthnews.com/
- Backwoods Magazine http://www.backwoodshome.com/
- Grit Magazine http://www.grit.com/
- Countryside Magazine http://www.countrysidemag.com/
- Hobby Farms Magazine http://www.hobbyfarms.com/
Homesteading Supplies
- Lehmans
- Hoegger Supply