Your Off-Grid Bibliography?

[CountryGent]

Are there any books or other publications you've found particular helpful with off-grid preparedness? It can be anything: abodes/structures, energy, water, sewage, gardening/farming, defense/security, et al., as long as you've found it helpful.

Got any good reads to recommend? Thanks!

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[Tlock]

The lost art of living by Michael Chauran

 

[Stomper]

The Anarchist's Cookbook....

 

[Cavedweller]

Back when I thought about such things, I accumulated a fairly sizable library of DYI pubs at low cost from Hamiltonbook.com, an on line discount book seller. If you go to the search box and just select Do It Yourself from the drop down menu, you can find reprints of interesting old homesteading/farm/survival pubs such as these:

THE HOMESTEAD BUILDER, SECOND EDITION: Practical Hints for Handy-Men - HamiltonBook.com

Originally published in 1872 as <I>The Immigrant Builder.</I> Fascinating historical record filled with advice on the best ways to plan and construct dwellings in any location, such as log cabins, slab houses, and farm houses, together with information on building outdoor ovens, cellars, fence...

www.hamiltonbook.com

SHELTERS, SHACKS, AND SHANTIES AND HOW TO BUILD THEM, SECOND EDITION - HamiltonBook.com

Originally published in 1914, this guide presents lively, step by step tutelage on building all types of temporary and long term accommodations from both natural and man made materials, with instructions for building dozens of worry free shelters.

www.hamiltonbook.com

As well as more modern pubs such a this:

A CABIN IN THE FOREST: How to Find, Renovate, and Run the Perfect Off-Grid Retreat - HamiltonBook.com

Tips in this useful guide cover everything from building, plumbing, and electricity to growing food in a sustainable way to dealing with emergencies. The authors will tell you how to do it all, and how to do it the right way.

www.hamiltonbook.com

In full disclosure, these are just samples of current offerings, and I haven't read them, but the site is worth browsing if you are interested in building a low cost library of such things.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

The Foxfire books series from the 1970's onward are a good read.

Horace Kephart and his Camping and Woodcraft ...is also a damn good read.

Camp & Trail ..The Mountains ...The Forest...By Stewart Edward White are well worth looking up and reading.
Andy

 

[arakboss]

Are there any books or other publications you've found particular helpful with off-grid preparedness? It can be anything: abodes/structures, energy, water, sewage, gardening/farming, defense/security, et al., as long as you've found it helpful.

Got any good reads to recommend? Thanks!

I just spent 6 nights off grid. It was just me against the tree branches. Lots and lots of tree branches lost. Actual experience has been the best resource for me.

I decided not to tangle with this big boy. The tree was dead anyways.