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🏕️ Off-Grid Community

Stories of intentional communities that have unplugged from mainstream society, exploring the idealism, friction, and hard-won self-sufficiency of life beyond the grid.
How to Survive Off the Grid
by Tim MacWelch • 2016
The off-grid blueprint: energy, water, food, medicine, and self-defense when no one is coming.
3.98
115
🏡 Off-Grid Living🌾 Homesteading☀️ Renewable Energy
How to Survive Off the Grid Summary
How to Survive Off the Grid 91%
The off-grid blueprint: energy, water, food, medicine, and self-defense when no one is coming.
by Tim MacWelch 2016
3.98
115 ratings
🏡 Off-Grid Living🌾 Homesteading☀️ Renewable Energy
Back to Basics
by Abigail R. Gehring • 2007
Build a home, grow your food, power it yourself: illustrated encyclopedia of self-sufficient living.
4.20
2k+
🏡 Homesteading Skills🌱 Self-Sufficiency🌄 Back To The Land
Back to Basics Summary
Back to Basics 91%
Build a home, grow your food, power it yourself: illustrated encyclopedia of self-sufficient living.
by Abigail R. Gehring 2007
4.20
2k+ ratings
🏡 Homesteading Skills🌱 Self-Sufficiency🌄 Back To The Land
The Way of the Hermit
by Ken Smith • 2023
One man, a remote Scottish loch, a hand-built cabin, and forty years of solitude and storms.
4.21
3k+
🏚️ Off-Grid Living🏕️ Wilderness Survival🍄 Foraging
The Way of the Hermit Summary
The Way of the Hermit 90%
One man, a remote Scottish loch, a hand-built cabin, and forty years of solitude and storms.
by Ken Smith 2023
4.21
3k+ ratings
🏚️ Off-Grid Living🏕️ Wilderness Survival🍄 Foraging
A Year of Living Simply
by Kate Humble • 2024
Owning less, fixing more, knowing your neighbors: a year of discovering what enough feels like.
3.71
2k+
🌻 Simple Living🌿 Nature Connection🛠 Repair And Reuse
A Year of Living Simply Summary
A Year of Living Simply 90%
Owning less, fixing more, knowing your neighbors: a year of discovering what enough feels like.
by Kate Humble 2024
3.71
2k+ ratings
🌻 Simple Living🌿 Nature Connection🛠 Repair And Reuse
Meet the Frugalwoods
by Elizabeth Willard Thames • 2018
An 82 percent savings rate: how two professionals quit their jobs and bought a Vermont homestead.
3.74
7k+
🏦 Financial Independence💰 Frugal Living🔥 Fire Movement
Meet the Frugalwoods Summary
Meet the Frugalwoods 89%
An 82 percent savings rate: how two professionals quit their jobs and bought a Vermont homestead.
by Elizabeth Willard Thames 2018
3.74
7k+ ratings
🏦 Financial Independence💰 Frugal Living🔥 Fire Movement
Harvesting Rainwater for Your Homestead in 9 Days or Less
by Renee Dang • 2022
From roof to tap in nine days: the 7-step plan for harvesting your own clean rainwater.
4.04
26
🚿 Rainwater Harvesting🏡 Off-Grid Living💧 Water Self-Sufficiency
Harvesting Rainwater for Your Homestead in 9 Days or Less Summary
Harvesting Rainwater for Your Homestead in 9 Days or Less 89%
From roof to tap in nine days: the 7-step plan for harvesting your own clean rainwater.
by Renee Dang 2022
4.04
26 ratings
🚿 Rainwater Harvesting🏡 Off-Grid Living💧 Water Self-Sufficiency
Solar Power
by Mark Prentice • 2016
Install your own solar panels, slash your bill, and sell the surplus to the utility.
2.50
2
☀️ Solar Energy♻️ Renewable Energy🏡 Off-Grid Living
Solar Power Summary
Solar Power 89%
Install your own solar panels, slash your bill, and sell the surplus to the utility.
by Mark Prentice 2016
2.50
2 ratings
☀️ Solar Energy♻️ Renewable Energy🏡 Off-Grid Living
Lifehouse
by Adam Greenfield • 2024
Votes and green tech won't stop climate collapse. The real plan: neighbors caring for each other.
3.84
86
🌱 Community Organizing🤝 Mutual Aid Networks🌍 Climate Adaptation
Lifehouse Summary
Lifehouse 89%
Votes and green tech won't stop climate collapse. The real plan: neighbors caring for each other.
by Adam Greenfield 2024
3.84
86 ratings
🌱 Community Organizing🤝 Mutual Aid Networks🌍 Climate Adaptation
Voluntary Simplicity
by Duane Elgin • 1981
Less stuff, more meaning: how to live a simpler, sustainable life while the world unravels.
3.62
2k+
🌿 Voluntary Simplicity🛑 Anti-Consumerism🏘️ Intentional Communities
Voluntary Simplicity Summary
Voluntary Simplicity 88%
Less stuff, more meaning: how to live a simpler, sustainable life while the world unravels.
by Duane Elgin 1981
3.62
2k+ ratings
🌿 Voluntary Simplicity🛑 Anti-Consumerism🏘️ Intentional Communities
Just in Case
by Kathy Harrison • 2008
A stocked pantry, a practiced family plan, and the know-how to thrive when the power fails.
3.85
494
🆘 Emergency Preparedness🏡 Self-Sufficiency🪴 Homesteading Skills
Just in Case Summary
Just in Case 88%
A stocked pantry, a practiced family plan, and the know-how to thrive when the power fails.
by Kathy Harrison 2008
3.85
494 ratings
🆘 Emergency Preparedness🏡 Self-Sufficiency🪴 Homesteading Skills
Heaven Is a Place on Earth
by Adrian Shirk • 2022
Utopia is a practice, not a place. Three centuries of Americans building communities from scratch.
3.93
215
🗺️ Memoir Of Place🛖 Intentional Communities🗽 American Utopianism
Heaven Is a Place on Earth Summary
Heaven Is a Place on Earth 88%
Utopia is a practice, not a place. Three centuries of Americans building communities from scratch.
by Adrian Shirk 2022
3.93
215 ratings
🗺️ Memoir Of Place🛖 Intentional Communities🗽 American Utopianism
The Lost Ways
by Claude Davis • 2021
Root cellars, gravity-fed fires, herbal poultices: pioneer skills that need no modern grid.
4.23
155
🏜️ Pioneer Skills🏕️ Wilderness Survival🪓 Self-Reliance Skills
The Lost Ways Summary
The Lost Ways 88%
Root cellars, gravity-fed fires, herbal poultices: pioneer skills that need no modern grid.
by Claude Davis 2021
4.23
155 ratings
🏜️ Pioneer Skills🏕️ Wilderness Survival🪓 Self-Reliance Skills
Solar Power for Sustainable Living
by Sustainable Stevie • 2012
The DIY solar reality check: what your bills, roof, and local code demand before you start.
3.75
4
☀️ Solar Energy♻️ Renewable Energy🔨 Home Improvement
Solar Power for Sustainable Living Summary
Solar Power for Sustainable Living 88%
The DIY solar reality check: what your bills, roof, and local code demand before you start.
by Sustainable Stevie 2012
3.75
4 ratings
☀️ Solar Energy♻️ Renewable Energy🔨 Home Improvement
The Unsettling of America
by Wendell Berry • 1977
America's farming crisis is really a crisis of character. The soil tells the story.
4.33
7k+
🧑‍🌾 Agrarian Philosophy🌍 Land Ethics🚜 Farming Criticism
The Unsettling of America Summary
The Unsettling of America 88%
America's farming crisis is really a crisis of character. The soil tells the story.
by Wendell Berry 1977
4.33
7k+ ratings
🧑‍🌾 Agrarian Philosophy🌍 Land Ethics🚜 Farming Criticism
One Man's Wilderness
by Sam Keith • 1973
At fifty-one he walked into the Alaskan wilderness, built a cabin by hand, and began again.
4.37
10k+
🏔️ Wilderness Memoir🔨 Self-Reliance🐻 Animal Encounters
One Man's Wilderness Summary
One Man's Wilderness 88%
At fifty-one he walked into the Alaskan wilderness, built a cabin by hand, and began again.
by Sam Keith 1973
4.37
10k+ ratings
🏔️ Wilderness Memoir🔨 Self-Reliance🐻 Animal Encounters
The One-Straw Revolution
by Masanobu Fukuoka • 1975
A manifesto that argues plowing, weeding, and fertilizing are optional. Thirty years of proof.
4.33
9k+
🌱 Sustainable Agriculture☮️ Zen Philosophy🧱 Soil Health
The One-Straw Revolution Summary
The One-Straw Revolution 88%
A manifesto that argues plowing, weeding, and fertilizing are optional. Thirty years of proof.
by Masanobu Fukuoka 1975
4.33
9k+ ratings
🌱 Sustainable Agriculture☮️ Zen Philosophy🧱 Soil Health
How to Disappear and Live Off the Grid
by John Kiriakou • 2022
A CIA officer's tradecraft for erasing your identity and living off the surveillance grid.
3.39
46
🏕️ Off-Grid Living🔒 Digital Privacy👁️ Counter-Surveillance
How to Disappear and Live Off the Grid Summary
How to Disappear and Live Off the Grid 88%
A CIA officer's tradecraft for erasing your identity and living off the surveillance grid.
by John Kiriakou 2022
3.39
46 ratings
🏕️ Off-Grid Living🔒 Digital Privacy👁️ Counter-Surveillance
Blessed Unrest
by Paul Hawken • 2007
A vast, leaderless movement is quietly restoring both the earth and human dignity.
3.94
2k+
🌍 Environmental Activism⚖️ Climate Justice🌱 Grassroots Movements
Blessed Unrest Summary
Blessed Unrest 88%
A vast, leaderless movement is quietly restoring both the earth and human dignity.
by Paul Hawken 2007
3.94
2k+ ratings
🌍 Environmental Activism⚖️ Climate Justice🌱 Grassroots Movements
The Sunset Route
by Carrot Quinn • 2021
A young woman rides freight trains west to escape a broken past, searching for a new kind of family.
4.16
2k+
🚂 Freight Train Culture🏡 Off-Grid Living🎒 Nomadic Lifestyles
The Sunset Route Summary
The Sunset Route 88%
A young woman rides freight trains west to escape a broken past, searching for a new kind of family.
by Carrot Quinn 2021
4.16
2k+ ratings
🚂 Freight Train Culture🏡 Off-Grid Living🎒 Nomadic Lifestyles
The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan
by Liesl Clark • 2020
A no-shopping plan that saves money, cuts waste, and turns neighbors into your best resource.
3.44
2k+
🧩 Anti-Consumerism🎁 Gift Economies🤝 Sharing Economy
The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan Summary
The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan 88%
A no-shopping plan that saves money, cuts waste, and turns neighbors into your best resource.
by Liesl Clark 2020
3.44
2k+ ratings
🧩 Anti-Consumerism🎁 Gift Economies🤝 Sharing Economy
No Impact Man
by Colin Beavan • 2009
90 gallons of trash in 4 days: a Manhattan family aims for zero, for a year.
3.78
5k+
🏙️ Urban Sustainability🧪 Lifestyle Experiments🗑️ Waste Reduction
No Impact Man Summary
No Impact Man 88%
90 gallons of trash in 4 days: a Manhattan family aims for zero, for a year.
by Colin Beavan 2009
3.78
5k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Sustainability🧪 Lifestyle Experiments🗑️ Waste Reduction
How to Thrive in the Next Economy
by John Thackara • 2015
A design movement is ditching ‘less harm’ for an economy that restores soil, water, and community.
3.78
246
🌱 Regenerative Economy🏡 Ecological Design📉 Post-Growth Economics
How to Thrive in the Next Economy Summary
How to Thrive in the Next Economy 88%
A design movement is ditching ‘less harm’ for an economy that restores soil, water, and community.
by John Thackara 2015
3.78
246 ratings
🌱 Regenerative Economy🏡 Ecological Design📉 Post-Growth Economics
Anti-Tech Revolution
by Theodore John Kaczynski • 2016
The technological world system is a self-driving machine no one steers and nothing stops.
3.95
630
🏕️ Anarcho-Primitivism✊ Revolutionary Theory🔄 Systems Thinking
Anti-Tech Revolution Summary
Anti-Tech Revolution 88%
The technological world system is a self-driving machine no one steers and nothing stops.
by Theodore John Kaczynski 2016
3.95
630 ratings
🏕️ Anarcho-Primitivism✊ Revolutionary Theory🔄 Systems Thinking
An Inconvenient Apocalypse
by Wes Jackson • 2022
Civilization's biological drive for energy makes collapse inevitable. No green tech can stop it.
3.56
198
📉 Limits To Growth🛠️ Techno-Skepticism💰 Ecological Economics
An Inconvenient Apocalypse Summary
An Inconvenient Apocalypse 87%
Civilization's biological drive for energy makes collapse inevitable. No green tech can stop it.
by Wes Jackson 2022
3.56
198 ratings
📉 Limits To Growth🛠️ Techno-Skepticism💰 Ecological Economics
Sara Snow's Fresh Living
by Sara Snow • 2009
Toxins in your toothpaste, chemicals in your crib: a room-by-room detox for the whole house.
3.78
130
🏡 Green Home🧪 Non-Toxic Home👶 Eco-Friendly Parenting
Sara Snow's Fresh Living Summary
Sara Snow's Fresh Living 87%
Toxins in your toothpaste, chemicals in your crib: a room-by-room detox for the whole house.
by Sara Snow 2009
3.78
130 ratings
🏡 Green Home🧪 Non-Toxic Home👶 Eco-Friendly Parenting
Home Grown
by Ben Hewitt • 2014
Two brothers learn to read by crafting bows and butchering hogs on their family's Vermont farm.
3.95
2k+
🧩 Unschooling🌿 Nature Connection🐢 Slow Parenting
Home Grown Summary
Home Grown 87%
Two brothers learn to read by crafting bows and butchering hogs on their family's Vermont farm.
by Ben Hewitt 2014
3.95
2k+ ratings
🧩 Unschooling🌿 Nature Connection🐢 Slow Parenting
Walden and Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau • 1849
A cabin, a pond, two years, one tax refusal: the American original on freedom and conscience.
3.93
39k+
🏞️ American Transcendentalism🌿 Nature Writing🏡 Simple Living
Walden and Civil Disobedience Summary
Walden and Civil Disobedience 87%
A cabin, a pond, two years, one tax refusal: the American original on freedom and conscience.
by Henry David Thoreau 1849
3.93
39k+ ratings
🏞️ American Transcendentalism🌿 Nature Writing🏡 Simple Living
Sowing Seeds in the Desert
by Masanobu Fukuoka • 2012
Our farms are making deserts. A hands-off method for restoring them with seeds and clay.
4.34
724
🧑‍🌾 Regenerative Agriculture🌳 Permaculture Philosophy🌱 Ecological Restoration
Sowing Seeds in the Desert Summary
Sowing Seeds in the Desert 87%
Our farms are making deserts. A hands-off method for restoring them with seeds and clay.
by Masanobu Fukuoka 2012
4.34
724 ratings
🧑‍🌾 Regenerative Agriculture🌳 Permaculture Philosophy🌱 Ecological Restoration
One Second After
by William R. Forstchen • 2009
An EMP erases civilization. A widowed professor must keep his daughters alive as his town starves.
3.98
77k+
🏕️ Survivalist Fiction⚡ Grid Collapse🫡 Reluctant Leader
One Second After Summary
One Second After 87%
An EMP erases civilization. A widowed professor must keep his daughters alive as his town starves.
by William R. Forstchen 2009
3.98
77k+ ratings
🏕️ Survivalist Fiction⚡ Grid Collapse🫡 Reluctant Leader
Early Retirement Extreme
by Jacob Lund Fisker • 2010
Retire in five years: save 75% of your income and learn to do absolutely everything yourself.
3.96
4k+
🏦 Financial Independence🧮 Extreme Frugality🌱 Voluntary Simplicity
Early Retirement Extreme Summary
Early Retirement Extreme 87%
Retire in five years: save 75% of your income and learn to do absolutely everything yourself.
by Jacob Lund Fisker 2010
3.96
4k+ ratings
🏦 Financial Independence🧮 Extreme Frugality🌱 Voluntary Simplicity
I Don't Want To Grow Up
by Scott Stillman • 2021
The default script is a trap. Here is the escape: simplify, follow instinct, and let adventure lead.
4.08
2k+
🏗️ Lifestyle Design🏡 Simple Living🌟 Childlike Wonder
I Don't Want To Grow Up Summary
I Don't Want To Grow Up 87%
The default script is a trap. Here is the escape: simplify, follow instinct, and let adventure lead.
by Scott Stillman 2021
4.08
2k+ ratings
🏗️ Lifestyle Design🏡 Simple Living🌟 Childlike Wonder
Zero Waste Home
by Bea Johnson • 2013
A five-step hierarchy that stops waste at the source and cuts household costs by 40%.
3.75
8k+
🚯 Zero Waste Living🏡 Sustainable Home🪴 Minimalism
Zero Waste Home Summary
Zero Waste Home 87%
A five-step hierarchy that stops waste at the source and cuts household costs by 40%.
by Bea Johnson 2013
3.75
8k+ ratings
🚯 Zero Waste Living🏡 Sustainable Home🪴 Minimalism
The Year of the Flood
by Margaret Atwood • 2009
A plague destroys civilization. Two women survive alone, living by the eco-cult's rules.
4.07
134k+
🌿 Eco-Spiritual Commune🏢 Corporate Dystopia🧬 Biopunk Fiction
The Year of the Flood Summary
The Year of the Flood 87%
A plague destroys civilization. Two women survive alone, living by the eco-cult's rules.
by Margaret Atwood 2009
4.07
134k+ ratings
🌿 Eco-Spiritual Commune🏢 Corporate Dystopia🧬 Biopunk Fiction
Basics of Resistance
by Claire Wolfe • 2018
The tradecraft of fighting back: how civilians resist tyranny, stay anonymous, and build cells.
4.04
67
🪧 Civil Resistance✊ Direct Action🕵️ Tradecraft
Basics of Resistance Summary
Basics of Resistance 87%
The tradecraft of fighting back: how civilians resist tyranny, stay anonymous, and build cells.
by Claire Wolfe 2018
4.04
67 ratings
🪧 Civil Resistance✊ Direct Action🕵️ Tradecraft
Movement Matters
by Katy Bowman • 2016
Movement is biology, not exercise. The true cost of outsourcing it reaches beyond your body.
4.28
850
🧬 Evolutionary Health🪑 Sedentary Culture🌍 Ecological Living
Movement Matters Summary
Movement Matters 87%
Movement is biology, not exercise. The true cost of outsourcing it reaches beyond your body.
by Katy Bowman 2016
4.28
850 ratings
🧬 Evolutionary Health🪑 Sedentary Culture🌍 Ecological Living
How to Do Nothing
by Jenny Odell • 2019
Your attention is being mined. The most radical response: do nothing.
3.65
57k+
💸 Attention Economy📵 Digital Detox✊ Quiet Resistance
How to Do Nothing Summary
How to Do Nothing 87%
Your attention is being mined. The most radical response: do nothing.
by Jenny Odell 2019
3.65
57k+ ratings
💸 Attention Economy📵 Digital Detox✊ Quiet Resistance
The Serviceberry
by Robin Wall Kimmerer • 2024
Nature's economy is a gift economy. An ecologist shows how it works, and why markets can't.
4.27
70k+
🧙🏽 Indigenous Wisdom🎁 Gift Economies🧠 Traditional Ecological Knowledge
The Serviceberry Summary
The Serviceberry 87%
Nature's economy is a gift economy. An ecologist shows how it works, and why markets can't.
by Robin Wall Kimmerer 2024
4.27
70k+ ratings
🧙🏽 Indigenous Wisdom🎁 Gift Economies🧠 Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Beyond Money
by Anitra Nelson • 2022
Money is not a neutral tool. It is a growth engine incompatible with a living planet.
2.96
24
🏛️ Postcapitalism📉 Degrowth🤝 Commoning
Beyond Money Summary
Beyond Money 87%
Money is not a neutral tool. It is a growth engine incompatible with a living planet.
by Anitra Nelson 2022
2.96
24 ratings
🏛️ Postcapitalism📉 Degrowth🤝 Commoning
Soil and Sacrament
by Fred Bahnson • 2013
What if the holiest ground you'll ever touch is in a garden?
4.17
264
🛐 Faith And Farming🌻 Community Gardens🙏 Agrarian Spirituality
Soil and Sacrament Summary
Soil and Sacrament 87%
What if the holiest ground you'll ever touch is in a garden?
by Fred Bahnson 2013
4.17
264 ratings
🛐 Faith And Farming🌻 Community Gardens🙏 Agrarian Spirituality
Commune
by Joshua Gayou • 2018
A mountain commune is occupied. To reclaim it, survivors must risk becoming monsters themselves.
4.32
1k+
🏚️ Post-Apocalyptic Community⚖️ Survivor Politics👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family
Commune Summary
Commune 87%
A mountain commune is occupied. To reclaim it, survivors must risk becoming monsters themselves.
by Joshua Gayou 2018
4.32
1k+ ratings
🏚️ Post-Apocalyptic Community⚖️ Survivor Politics👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family
The Practice of the Wild
by Gary Snyder • 1990
The rules for real freedom are written in forests, watersheds, and the food chain.
4.19
3k+
🏔️ Deep Ecology✍️ Nature Writing🗺️ Bioregionalism
The Practice of the Wild Summary
The Practice of the Wild 87%
The rules for real freedom are written in forests, watersheds, and the food chain.
by Gary Snyder 1990
4.19
3k+ ratings
🏔️ Deep Ecology✍️ Nature Writing🗺️ Bioregionalism
Moon of the Turning Leaves
by Waubgeshig Rice • 2023
Six Anishinaabe scouts journey through a dead America toward the homeland their people once lost.
4.22
11k+
🌱 Indigenous Futurism👵 Generational Wisdom🏕️ Ancestral Homeland
Moon of the Turning Leaves Summary
Moon of the Turning Leaves 87%
Six Anishinaabe scouts journey through a dead America toward the homeland their people once lost.
by Waubgeshig Rice 2023
4.22
11k+ ratings
🌱 Indigenous Futurism👵 Generational Wisdom🏕️ Ancestral Homeland
Solitude
by Michael Harris • 2017
Your phone checks you 150 times a day. Solitude is the lost art: reclaiming your attention.
3.66
2k+
💰 Attention Economy📵 Digital Detox🎨 Solitude And Creativity
Solitude Summary
Solitude 87%
Your phone checks you 150 times a day. Solitude is the lost art: reclaiming your attention.
by Michael Harris 2017
3.66
2k+ ratings
💰 Attention Economy📵 Digital Detox🎨 Solitude And Creativity
The Secret School Of Wisdom - The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati
by Josef Wages • 2015
What if working six weeks a year was enough? A two-year experiment in deliberate poverty.
4.12
52
🌿 Transcendentalism🏡 Simple Living🌲 Nature Writing
The Secret School Of Wisdom - The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati Summary
The Secret School Of Wisdom - The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati 87%
What if working six weeks a year was enough? A two-year experiment in deliberate poverty.
by Josef Wages 2015
4.12
52 ratings
🌿 Transcendentalism🏡 Simple Living🌲 Nature Writing
Walden on Wheels
by Ken Ilgunas • 2013
He erased $32,000 in debt by living in a campus van on four dollars a day.
4.01
8k+
💰 Student Debt🚐 Van Life🧹 Minimalism
Walden on Wheels Summary
Walden on Wheels 87%
He erased $32,000 in debt by living in a campus van on four dollars a day.
by Ken Ilgunas 2013
4.01
8k+ ratings
💰 Student Debt🚐 Van Life🧹 Minimalism
Folks, This Ain't Normal
by Joel Salatin • 2011
Food that travels 1,500 miles, animals that never graze, costs hidden: a farmer's case for normal.
4.21
5k+
🌱 Sustainable Agriculture🏘️ Local Food Systems🌍 Soil Regeneration
Folks, This Ain't Normal Summary
Folks, This Ain't Normal 87%
Food that travels 1,500 miles, animals that never graze, costs hidden: a farmer's case for normal.
by Joel Salatin 2011
4.21
5k+ ratings
🌱 Sustainable Agriculture🏘️ Local Food Systems🌍 Soil Regeneration
Gardening When It Counts
by Steve Solomon • 2006
Most gardening books assume cheap inputs and grocery stores. This one assumes the day both are gone.
4.05
982
🔨 Subsistence Gardening🌱 Organic Gardening🧪 Soil Fertility
Gardening When It Counts Summary
Gardening When It Counts 87%
Most gardening books assume cheap inputs and grocery stores. This one assumes the day both are gone.
by Steve Solomon 2006
4.05
982 ratings
🔨 Subsistence Gardening🌱 Organic Gardening🧪 Soil Fertility
How to Think Seriously About the Planet
by Roger Scruton • 2011
Why local loyalty, beauty, and tradition matter more for the planet than any global climate treaty.
3.87
446
🏛️ Conservatism🌱 Stewardship🏘️ Localism
How to Think Seriously About the Planet Summary
How to Think Seriously About the Planet 87%
Why local loyalty, beauty, and tradition matter more for the planet than any global climate treaty.
by Roger Scruton 2011
3.87
446 ratings
🏛️ Conservatism🌱 Stewardship🏘️ Localism
Arctic Homestead
by Norma Cobb • 2000
A blended family claims an Arctic homestead: no road, no laws, and winter closing in.
4.06
2k+
🏡 Homesteading Memoir🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Frontier Family
Arctic Homestead Summary
Arctic Homestead 87%
A blended family claims an Arctic homestead: no road, no laws, and winter closing in.
by Norma Cobb 2000
4.06
2k+ ratings
🏡 Homesteading Memoir🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Frontier Family
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
by Vandana Shiva • 2015
Agribusiness didn't end hunger. Small farms, producing 70% of food on 30% of land, feed us.
3.96
436
🌱 Agroecology✊ Food Sovereignty🏭 Industrial Agriculture
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology Summary
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology 87%
Agribusiness didn't end hunger. Small farms, producing 70% of food on 30% of land, feed us.
by Vandana Shiva 2015
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🌱 Agroecology✊ Food Sovereignty🏭 Industrial Agriculture
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