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4 9 Strategies for
Self-Reliant Living
To get back to basics, achieve food security, and find financial independence, heed this advice from a family that made it work.
10 Community + Self-Reliance
= The Good Life
Neighbors discover strength and security as they embrace a do-it-ourselves approach to more sustainable communities. Here, we feature seven of these resilient, cooperative Homestead Hamlets as models for other neighborhoods.
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18 Homesteading
Lessons Learned
From planning your home to laying out garden beds, a longtime homesteader offers advice 20 years in the making.
22 Find Your Perfect
Country Property
Follow this advice to discover the property that’s just right for you.
27 DIY Wind Generator
Turn an alternator into alternative energy in as little as a weekend using hand tools, a handful of hardware, and some inexpensive car parts.
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30 Renewable Energy Options
for Your Homestead
Downsize your dependence on fossil fuels with these tools.
34 Grow More Food
in Less Space
Blending the best principles of biointensive and square-foot gardening will yield a customized, highly productive growing system.
40 Care and Cultivation of
Permanent Garden Beds
Provide a secure habitat for the dynamic soil food web that sustains your crops by establishing permanent garden beds and paths.
COVER PHOTOGRAPH: MATTHEW T. STALLBAUMER
Imagine your ideal patch of Mother Earth. Perhaps it’s a place where the sky and land are vast and the soil is fertile. Now, imagine someone is willing to give this to you — free. free.
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