Posted: 1/14/2015 10:48:12 AM EDT
| Purchasing a decent lot of land (10 acres) and looking to make it my own however have ALOT of learning to do, is there a good resource besides this forum to read into and learn about homesteading? Raising livestock, food preserving, farming ect.? |
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Each category has sites all about it. Some stuff you should research and read about, and I have been buying em as I can. Carla emory's homesteading book, I think that is the title but I could be off. Big book with tons of info in it and it is kind of a quick resource for a lot of stuff you will run into. Mother earth news archive, you can now get it on a thumb drive but I have it on dvd. It is enough info I will probably buy the thumbdrive this year, it has another year or two on it from when I got my dvd, as a backup. Lots of useful articles and lots of ideas. Some of it is a bit nutty but the old mother earth news was awesome and even the new one has lots of excellant articles and what not in it. More entertainment perhaps, but the foxfire books are also nice to have. I have lots of odds and ends but will probably sell them off and buy a complete set this year. The old ways don't always apply, but they did things with what was around them for resources and they did without a ton of stuff as well. If you plan to get a tractor, and homesteading is hard work so a tool like a good tractor is useful, tractor by net website is the arfcom of tractors. I play over there for entertainment since I don't have a tractor, and some of their projects are amazing. Actually I guess you should look at the big section for this part of the forum and check out the sticky in the reading section for pdfs and recomended books and what not. The ball book of canning will cover most of what you want to know about canning stuffy. You will want to look locally for some things as well. I live rural and use the local co-op as an information source for some stuff. Might not be the cheapest place to get stuff but it is not that high on some things, they refill propane tanks, and their brains are awfully full of good info. My county also has some stuff where they might offer good info as to what sort of things commonly grow in this climate and what not, forgetting the names of it all but reading up on your town and county websites should give you some links to consider. |