The (Early) Education of a Homesteader
Posted: 14 Jul 2014 05:20 PM PDT
Animals (general)
- Ask Jackie: Animals, by Jackie Clay-Atkinson
Beekeeping
- The Barefoot Beekeeper podcast, by Phil Chandler
- Building Beehives For Dummies, by Howland Blackiston
- The Backyard Beekeeper - Revised and Updated: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden, by Kim Flottum
- The Backyard Beekeeper's Honey Handbook: A Guide to Creating, Harvesting, and Baking with Natural Honeys (Backyard Series), by Kim Flottum
Chickens
- The Urban Chicken Podcast, by Jennifer Pitino
- City Chicks: Keeping Micro-flocks of Chickens as Garden Helpers, Compost Makers, Bio-reyclers, and Local Food Producers, by Patricia Foreman
- Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil, Homestead (3rd) Edition, by Andy Lee and Patricia Foreman
- My Pet Chicken Handbook: Sensible Advice and Savvy Answers for Raising Backyard Chickens, by Lissa Lucas and Traci Torres
Flora & Fauna
- Wetland Plants of Michigan: A Complete Guide to the Wetland and Aquatic Plants of the Great Lakes State, by Steve W. Chadde
- Michigan Trees, Revised and Updated: A Guide to the Trees of the Great Lakes Region, by Burton V. Barnes and Warren H. Wagner, Jr.
Forestry / Lumber Milling / Timber Framing
- Wranglerstar, YouTube channel
- Wood-Mizer LLC, YouTube channel
- Husqvarna, YouTube channel
Gardening / Food Preservation / Cooking
- Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre, by Brett L. Markham
- Growing and Canning Your Own Food, by Jackie Clay-Atkinson
- Ask Jackie: Gardening, by Jackie Clay-Atkinson
- Ask Jackie: Food Storage, by Jackie Clay-Atkinson
- Ask Jackie: Canning basics, by Jackie Clay-Atkinson
- Ask Jackie: Water Bath Canning, by Jackie Clay-Atkinson
- Ask Jackie: Pressure Canning, by Jackie Clay-Atkinson
- Second Nature: A Gardener's Education, by Michael Pollan
- Ask Jackie: Homestead Cooking, by Jackie Clay-Atkinson
- Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving, by Judi Kingry and Lauren Devine
Homesteading
- Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills, Third Edition
- The Encyclopedia of Country Living, 40th Anniversary Edition: The Original Manual of Living Off the Land & Doing It Yourself, by Carla Emery
- The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living, by Helen and Scott Nearing
- The Provision Room (PR) Blog, by Kristina and Daja, it is all about "home-centered living"
- Homesteading Simplified, by Jackie Clay
- The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach, by Ben Falk
- Maintenance Engineering Handbook, Eighth Edition, by R. Keith Mobley
- Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers 11th Edition, by Eugene Avallone, Theodore Baumeister and Ali Sadegh
- Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual: Completely Revised and Updated
by Editors Of The Family Handyman
- The Maple Sugar Book: Together with Remarks on Pioneering as a Way of Living in the Twentieth Century (Good Life Series), by Helen and Scott Nearing
- North American Maple Syrup Producers Manual, by Melvin R. Koelling, Ph. D., and Randall B. Heiligmann, Ph. D.
- Maple Sugaring at Home, by Joe McHale
- Maple Syrup - Process Flow, by John Newell, Primal Woods Sugarers, LLC
Medical
- The Merck Manual of Medical Information: Second Home Edition (Merck Manual of Medical Information, Home Ed.), by Mark H. Beers, M.D.
- Where There Is No Doctor, by David Werner, Jane Maxwell and Carol Thuman
Permaculture
- Permaculture Voices Podcast, Diego Footer
- Permaculture: A Designers' Manual, by Bill Mollison
- Restoration Agriculture, by Mark Shepard
- Van-Kal Permaculture Group, a google group by PJ Chmiel
Providing / Preparing / Survival-ism
- The Survival Podcast, by Jack Spirko
- Surviving in Argentina blog, by Fernando "Ferfal" Aguirre, author of the book, The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse, based on his first-hand experience of the 2001 economic collapse of Argentina
- Pathfinder Survival Blog, by Dave Canterbury
- The Preparedness Podcast, by Rob Hanus
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared M. Diamond
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition, by Jared M. Diamond
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