Book and Product Recommendations

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Books

• Rachel's Folly: A Romantic Mountain Adventure

• Homemade Contrivances

• Handy Farm Devices

• The Art of Soapmaking

• The Soapmaker's Companion

• The Ultimate Guide to Farm Mechanics

• The Herbal Medicine-maker's Handbook

• Prescription for Herbal Healing

• Butchering Poultry, Rabbit, Lamb, Goat, Pork

• Butchering Beef

• The Encyclopedia of Country Living

• Tools for Survival

• Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills

• Homesteading in the 21st Century: How One Family Created a More Sustainable, Self-Sufficient, and Satisfying Life

• How to Build Animal Housing: 60 Plans for Coops, Hutches, Barns, Sheds, Pens, Nestboxes, Feeders, Stanchions, and Much More

• Bittersweet Earth

• Bittersweet Country

• At Home with Books

• Practical Projects for Self-Sufficiency: DIY Projects to Get Your Self-Reliant Lifestyle Started

• Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology

• Homestead Tsunami

• Cheaper and Better

• The Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual

• The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events

• Modern Homesteading

• American Yesterday by Eric Sloane

• The Seasons of America Past by Eric Sloane

• A Reverence for Wood by Eric Sloane

• Mommy and Me: Animals (toddler book)

• Mommy and Me: Around the World (toddler book)

• Animals Being Goofy! (toddler book)

• The Pocket Ref

• The Shoestring Girl: How I Live on Practically Nothing and You Can Too

• Legacy

• Katherine

• Mistress of the Monarch

• The Complete Guide to Home Canning  

• One Summer: America 1927

•  It Takes a Village Idiot

• A Country Year: Living the Questions

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Products

• Dynamo hand-crank solar powered lantern

• Gorilla cart (larger version)

• Gorilla cart (smaller version)

• Power stapler

• AllPowers backup power source

• VTOMAN backup power source

• Bluetti backup power source

• Fence stretcher tool

• Manual hydraulic log splitter

• Push-pull hoe

• Red Factor kitchen compost bucket

• Utopia kitchen compost bucket

• CLC Work Gear professional kneepads

• Heavy-duty plastic deer netting

• Compost tumbler

• VODA small four-blade stove-top fan

• All American pressure canner

• Presto pressure canner

• Duracell 1200 lumens flashlights

• The Critter Catcher  

• Ninja DZ201 two-basket air fryer

• Yogotherm yogurt incubator

• Bulgarian yogurt culture

• Yogurt strainer

• Heavy-duty traction boot cleats