Green Garden

Having two books in one allows you to go beyond just living off the grid, but also knowing how to live a self-sustainable life with homesteading. No matter if you are new to homesteading or you are an established farmer, whether you’ve lived off-grid before or have been stuck in the city the whole of your life, this book will catapult you into the life of your dreams. So, what are you waiting for? Pure happiness and satisfaction are waiting for you on the other side of your life-changing decision.

In the 1970s, Dolly Freed lived off the land dirt cheap and plum easy. Living in their own house on a half-acre lot outside of Philadelphia for almost five years, Dolly and her father produced their own food and drink and spent roughly $700 each per year. Thirty years later Dolly Freed's Possum Living is as fascinating and pertinent as it was in 1978. Tin House is reissuing the survivalist classic with a foreword by David Gates and an afterword by the author.

Discover how you can be prepared for any scenario, by learning basic prepper skills. Another important qualification you need is to be able to fix your own food without going to the store, i.e. the life of a homesteader. A lot of famous and successful people are embracing the life of a homesteader. Homesteading has become a catharsis for people who finally want to live the life of a producer rather than a mere consumer. This book will give you the necessary information and tools.

In Love, Nature, Magic, organic advocate and former CEO of a global health and wellness company Maria Rodale combines her love of nature and gardening with her experience in shamanic journeying, embarking on an epic adventure to learn from plants, animals, and insects—including some of the most misunderstood beings in nature. Maria asks them their purpose and listens as they show and declare what they want us humans to know.

Less Stuff is a guide for people who find it difficult to declutter and who don’t want to see things go to waste. Step by step, you’ll explore finding your ‘enough’, learn how to let go of your old possessions without sending them to landfill, and eventually break the cycle of stuff. The end result is a planet with less strain, a home with more peace and a life with more meaning.

Have you ever wondered how peas, kale, asparagus, beans, squash, and corn have ended up on our plates? Well, Adam Alexander has. In The Seed Detective, Adam shares his own stories of seed hunting, with the origin stories behind many of our everyday food heroes. Taking us on a journey that began when we left the life of the hunter-gatherer to become farmers, he tells tales of globalization, political intrigue, colonization, and serendipity—describing how these vegetables and their travels have become embedded in our food cultures.

Root cellars are making a comeback! Do you often wonder what to do with your harvest? How are you going to store it all? Or do you only grow small amounts because you lack sufficient storage space? Why not build a root cellar? Root cellars are an ancient tradition. Together with curing meats and pickling, root cellars have long been a food storage method, particularly root vegetables. Fortunately, root cellars are starting to make a noticeable comeback, enabling people to store more produce for longer without the need for electricity.

What happens to our trash? Why are our oceans filling with plastic? Do we really waste 40 percent of our food and 65 percent of our energy? Waste is truly our biggest problem, and solving our inherent trashiness can fix our economy, our energy costs, our traffic jams, and help slow climate change—all while making us healthier, happier and more prosperous. This story-driven and in-depth exploration of the pervasive yet hard-to-see wastefulness that permeates our daily lives illuminates the ways in which we've been duped into accepting absolutely insane levels of waste as normal.

Imagine cultivating enough food to slash your grocery shopping in half—all in less than an hour a day in your own backyard. Sounds impossible, right? Marjory Wildcraft says it's not: She's been homesteading for almost twenty years and founded The Grow Network to teach hundreds of thousands of others—some with very little space or time, some city dwellers with rooftop gardens—how to do the same, from gardening, to raising chickens, to composting, to medicine-making.

If the power grid fails, it’s not just your lights that go out. It’s your water supply. It’s your heating and cooling system. It’s all your usual ways of cooking food or doing the laundry. Without the grid, life as we know it changes in an instant.

Get ready for a refreshing and unique take on preparedness. This essential guide is for regular people who want to handle disaster situations confidently, without digging a network of underground bunkers stockpiled with weaponry.

The Abundance of Less captures the texture of sustainable lives well lived in these ten profiles of ordinary—yet exceptional—men and women who left behind mainstream existences in urban Japan to live surrounded by the luxuries of nature, art, friends, delicious food, and an abundance of time. Drawing on traditional Eastern spiritual wisdom and culture, these pioneers describe the profound personal transformations they underwent as they escaped the stress, consumerism, busyness, and dependence on technology of modern life.

In my book Off Grid RV Living: How to Live off the Grid Full Time on Your Own Terms, I will teach you everything I know about how to go completely off-grid and be in control of your own destiny. I will teach you about solar power, gardening, farming, setting up land for homesteading, and how to boondock in an RV in a city or in the wild.

The fundamentals of permaculture are simple: care for people and the Earth, and share what you have. With these in mind, practitioners promote a system with a sense of respect for all life on the planet. You may, however, be anxious about not knowing what to do. After all, not everybody knows about permaculture. But don’t worry–you don’t need to be an expert to start your own permaculture garden.

For anyone who is looking to reduce their ongoing costs and make their homes more eco-friendly, solar is a crucial system to explore. I am aware of how challenging it can be to make your tiny home eco-friendly and independent of the electricity grid, because I’ve grappled with this challenge myself. Few people even really know how the panels work, but I’m going to uncover that and plenty more. This Off Grid Solar Power Handbook provides you with the information to get your own solar system setup so you can power your home independently.

This complete guide to homesteading provides the information you need to get started sustainably growing your own food, raising animals organically, and even power everything off-the-grid. You don’t need 50 acres in the country, and you don’t need to invest lots of money into equipment you don’t need.

Essential Rainwater Harvesting is a comprehensive manual for designing, building, and maintaining water-harvesting systems for the warm and cold climates of the world. Presenting design considerations and approaches for the most common household rainwater supply scenarios.

Since available information in this regard is incomplete, DIY Source has prepared a practical guide on how to set up DIY solar power systems. DIY Solar Power for Beginners will guide you in customizing your grid, tied as well as mobile and off-grid solar power systems. We will walk you through the whole process of building your own solar system, including calculating your electricity needs.

A sane and organized life is about a lot more than just organizing your home. It's about making better use of each moment from when you wake up to when you go to bed. It's about knowing what you need to do next and having the discipline to follow through effortlessly. When you organize your life, the rewards go beyond clean shelves and easy-to-spot files. A well-organized life is logical and productive and gives us more time to do what we really want.

Are you tired of feeling like you have a brown thumb when it comes to having plants? Have you given up hope of ever having a thriving indoor garden? Fear not, fellow plant lover! You can become a successful plant parent with the right tools and knowledge.