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!