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To make it your
ambition and definitely endeavor to live quietly and peacefully, to mind
your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you, so
that you may bear yourselves becomingly and be correct and honorable and
command the respect of the outside world, being dependent on nobody
[self-supporting] and having need of nothing. 1 Thessalonians
4:11-12 AMP
Homesteading Category Index
Homesteading
- Suggested Reading
- Online Books
- The
Treasures of Simple Living
by Tyra and James Arraj
A Family's Search for a Simpler and More Meaningful Life in the
Middle of a Forest. [Printed copies also available]
- Radical
Simplicity and the Fourth Step
by Tyra and James Arraj
A note to this edition: We published The Treasures of
Simple Living in 1987, and have left it much as it first
appeared. Radical Simplicity and the Fourth Step updates
that story, but more importantly, tries to describe and distill
how living in the forest changed the way we saw the world we had
grown up in, and convinced us a better way of living was
possible. [Printed copies also available]
- General Websites
- Homestead.Org
Exploring & enhancing the quality of life in rural living
- SugarMountainHome.com
Homesteading Tips
- TapleTop
Homestead
Tabletop Homestead is really just a fancy name for not only
where we live, but what we do. True, there is no homesteading
today in the sense of the way our ancestors homesteaded with
free land on the frontier, but it is possible to pursue a more
self-sufficient, simple, natural and sustainable lifestyle even
in the 21st century. [photos
here]
- Many
Tracks - Homesteading
Self employed artisans, Steve Schmeck and Sue Robishaw's
website.
- Solar
Haven: Self Sufficient Living Without Utility Costs or a
Big Mortgage
by Jim & Mindy Phypers
Six years ago, at ages 59 and 45, Jim & Mindy Phypers set
out to build their own place on four acres in the Sonoran
Desert. Our site contains detailed information and about
400 photographs we have taken to show you how we have been doing
it.
- The
New Agrarian
by author David Walbert.
A New Agrarian is someone who
believes that there is and must be a future for rural places as
rural places and as a fully integrated part of the
21st-century world. A future, that is, in which rural places
neither wither away nor become so urbanized that they lose their
rural character—yet one that is truly a future, not a
hidebound extension of the past for its own sake.
- Websites & Articles by Category
- How
Can You Homestead With No Money?
by Gloria Morris.
Many people believe that they cannot afford to homestead because
they have been brainwashed by "Madison Avenue"
advertising to believe that they must have various modern
conveniences of the consumer culture. [Suite101.com
article]
- Homesteading Defined
- Homesteading
Defined
Three definitions of modern homesteading.
- Carla
Emery, author of "The Encyclopedia of Country
Living"
"Homesteading" used to mean qualifying for free
government land because you lived on it, built a house on
it, and so on. That program is mostly history now. The new
meaning of "homesteading" is a lifestyle of
choices that are frugal, healthy, sustainable, self-reliant,
and good for the wider community.
- The
Halfway Homestead
Too many of us who want change in the world envision the
world we'd like to live in but never figure out how to get
there from here. It is daunting to think about a divide so
great, so I advise trying not to think about it. Keep
the end in mind, but focus on the small things you can do
rather than the big things you can't.
And so the halfway homestead is our
answer to the question What can we do right here, right
now? It's about putting down roots where we are,
rather than holding back until we're where we think we'd
like to be. It's about taking the scenic route,
enjoying the ride, and holding open the possibility that we
might find a better destination than the one we had in mind.
[emphasis mine]
- Apprenticeship Programs
- Homesteading Diaries and/or Journals
- Homesteading Forums
- Abundant
Living
This is a Gathering Place for those who believe in a
Simplicity lifestyle, Self-sufficiency and the Simple values
of yesterday. Is family time important to you? Do you like
to garden, collect recipes, hunt or fish, or learn new
skills? Are you interested in alternative energy,
wildcrafting or antiques? Then Abundant Living is for you!
- Rural
Route: The Homestead.org Forum
- Buying Land
- Buy
Rural Property as Soon as You Can
Article by Gene Gerue
- Getting
Raw Land Not A Raw Deal
by Dan Auito
There is more to buying raw land than meets the eye and more
than a few individuals have wished they’d had a second
chance upon finding themselves duped, conned, misled,
ill-advised, uninformed, oversold, undereducated and often
unprepared. They realize, often too late, that a raw land
purchase should be properly investigated, evaluated and
negotiated using a logical and rational plan.
- How Much Land?
- Where to Buy?
- Setting Up Your Homestead
- Mother
Earth News: Setting Up a Homestead
[Issue # 2 - March/April 1970] Setting
up a productive country home is probably the biggest and
most important job any of us attempt during our lifetime.
Despite all of the people who have needed some basic data,
on setting up a homestead, no one had completely worked the
methods out and put them on paper. Every new family has been
left to stumble its own way toward the answers.
Not long after our first edition of
The "Have-More" Plan (see above) went
out we began to get letters asking for help in laying out a
place.
- Magazines & Newsletters
- BackHome
Magazine
BackHome is the magazine that delivers useful
do-it-yourself information on sustainable, self-reliant living.
Since 1990, BackHome has been the authority for those
interested in taking control of their own lives. The bi-monthly
issues are packed with proven information and resources on rural
land, mortgage-free building, solar and renewable energy,
chemical-free gardening, wholesome cooking, home business,
homeschooling, small livestock, vehicle and workshop projects,
and family activities. Join our thousands of readers and come BackHome!
- Backwoods
Home Magazine
Practical Ideas for Self Reliant Living. Want a more self
sufficient living for you and your family? Backwoods
Home Magazine can help you achieve it. Every issue is
packed with solid, practical, hands-on information on a wide
range of self-reliance topics.
- Countryside
Magazine
- Email Lists
- Yahoo
Groups: Homesteading
Created: 15 January 1999
Members: 937 (as of 30 November 2004)
This is a list is where people who homestead, or are
interested in homesteading and self reliance can ask questions
or share information and ideas in a casual, friendly
environment.
- Yahoo
Groups: Homestead-Work
Created: 30 December 1999
Members: 921 (as of 30 November 2004)
We discuss homesteading, self sufficiency, farming,
gardening, home based business (but not MLM, recruiting and
such, this is a spam free list), soap, cheese, organic
gardening, livestock, poultry and much more. We stay on topic to
keep email manageable for busy homesteaders.
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