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The Frugal Homesteader

Living the Good Life on Less
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The Frugal Homesteader by Joel Salatin and John Moody is an inspirational and practical guide for anyone looking to embrace self-sufficiency without overspending. It offers affordable DIY innovations and tips for gardening, animal care, rainwater harvesting, wood heating, and foraging, drawing on the experiences of families living off the land. This manual aims to help readers produce more while consuming less and thrive even in challenging times.
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This book is ideal for aspiring homesteaders, small-scale farmers practising regenerative agriculture, and anyone interested in sustainable living and cutting costs through practical, hands-on techniques.

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Equip your homesteading dreams with all the affordable DIY innovations, tips, and stories you need to successfully get you started growing your own food, connecting yourself and your kids with nature, and consuming less while producing more! A fun, inspirational, and educational guide to help you save money while living off the land.

Achieve your back-to-the-land dreams without breaking the bank

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Achieve your back-to-the-land dreams without breaking the bank

Build your homesteading dreams with all the affordable DIY innovations, tips, and stories you need to successfully launch you on a path to self-sufficiency. Raise and grow your own food, connect with nature, and consume less while producing more!

The Frugal Homesteader is a fun, inspirational, and educational guide filled with a lifetime of learning that comes along with becoming a homesteader. Following dozens of successful families who have been motivated to make do, make new, and make more while saving money and living off the land, this book covers such topics as:

  • Outfitting your garden
  • Equipping your barn and outbuildings
  • Protecting and providing for your animals
  • Harvesting rainwater
  • Heating with wood
  • Foraging
  • Producing more of what you need to thrive in harder times.

Whether you're just starting out and looking for new, sustainable, and affordable ideas, approaches, and techniques, or you're a small-scale farmer in regenerative agriculture, The Frugal Homesteader is the DIY manual to help you succeed.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780865718937

Publisher: New Society Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 October 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: New Society Publishers

Illustration: 150 Halftones, black and white

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Joel Salatin

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 440g

Pages: 224

About the Author

John Moody is an award-winning homesteader and farmer. He is the founder of Whole Life Services and CEO of Steader, an online video-based learning platform that brings the best practitioners to guide and inspire those who find the joy in raising and growing their own food. John speaks and presents at homesteading conferences and events, and is a contributor to numerous magazines, journals, and websites. John and his wife, along with their five children live, farm, and homestead on 35 acres in Kentucky.

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