BOOKS FROM OUR TINY HOMESTEAD
written by Theresa & Bear
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How to Build a Backyard WILDLIFE POND
This easy to use, do-it-yourself booklet includes color photos illustrating each step of the pond building instructions. Reader Comments:
“I just want to say I love your pond and your step-by-step directions for how you built it.”
“You explained so many things clearly…I really appreciate it!” “So much more detail than others manage and refreshingly personal.” “The pond took a lot of effort, but you must have been strongly motivated by your love and appreciation for vulnerable creatures whose natural habitat has been destabilized or destroyed by humans…We can do something that helps!” |
Eat Your Wild Yard: SpringGrowing & Foraging for Wild Edibles in Your Own Backyard
Have you ever wondered if you could shop for groceries without spending money? In our tiny, shady yard, we can’t grow a lot of the usual garden vegetables, but we can grow and forage for free wild Spring edibles: nettle, chickweed, fiddleheads, ramps, and violets. Wild edibles are not the normal ingredients you find in most cookbooks, but you too can bring the wild into your yard and let it nourish you. Our book shows you how.
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We're working on our next book:
Your Woodstove: a Multi-purpose Tool for Self-Reliance
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Are you one of the millions of homeowners who heats with a wood stove to reduce your dependence on the power grid?
Did you know you can also use your stove to cook food, dry laundry, and complete a number of other tasks that will make you even more self-sufficient? With photos showing step-by-step instructions, this book will help you rediscover what everyone used to know: that the wood stove can be the center of the home and a multipurpose tool for self-reliance. To be notified when this book is available,
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A note from Theresa about self-publishing: I began this website on my two week Winter vacation in late December of 2013. What I really wanted to do was write books, however, I had come to accept that while working 40 hours a week I would never be able to find the time to pull together an entire book's worth of chapters in any timely manner. So instead, I began writing pages for this website, because of a driving need to get my words out there. I wanted to share clearly written instructions, including a photo for every step, that would help people be able to actually do the projects we've been experimenting with to live our lives in a more sustainable, self-reliant manner.
It was a challenge to find the time to figure out how to build a website. And it's been a challenge to figure out how to self-publish a book, but I've finally started taking the information from this site, adding new details and insights, and using my graphic design skills to combine them into books. I love books, I love having them on my bookshelf for reference, I love feeling them in my hands, smelling the paper, and flipping through to look at the photos. One of my earliest memories is of making a book by pasting images onto pieces of cardboard and tying them together. Libraries are some of my favorite places in the world- they are so full of potential. I feel immense gratitude that I have made it to this point in my life. May these books also inspire and instruct you on your journey.
It was a challenge to find the time to figure out how to build a website. And it's been a challenge to figure out how to self-publish a book, but I've finally started taking the information from this site, adding new details and insights, and using my graphic design skills to combine them into books. I love books, I love having them on my bookshelf for reference, I love feeling them in my hands, smelling the paper, and flipping through to look at the photos. One of my earliest memories is of making a book by pasting images onto pieces of cardboard and tying them together. Libraries are some of my favorite places in the world- they are so full of potential. I feel immense gratitude that I have made it to this point in my life. May these books also inspire and instruct you on your journey.