Homestead Memoirs
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The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
by:
Scott Nearing
4.12 avg rating — 2,001 ratings 5. 
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
by:
Philip Connors
3.97 avg rating — 4,538 ratings 6. 
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The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life
by:
Sarah Frey
4.13 avg rating — 1,913 ratings 9. 
This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
by:
Ted Genoways
3.84 avg rating — 1,267 ratings 
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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
by:
J. Drew Lanham
4.22 avg rating — 3,230 ratings 
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Finding Turtle Farm: My Twenty-Acre Adventure in Community-Supported Agriculture
by:
Angela Tedesco
4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings 
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Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom
by:
Jake Keiser
3.92 avg rating — 282 ratings 25. 
Woodswoman I: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness
by:
Anne LaBastille
4.17 avg rating — 2,949 ratings 
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The Last of the Mountain Men: The True Story of an Idaho Solitary
by:
Harold Peterson
4.04 avg rating — 47 ratings 30. 
Woodswoman IV: Book Four of the Woodswoman's Adventures
by:
Anne LaBastille
4.30 avg rating — 130 ratings 
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Woodswoman III: Book Three of the Woodswoman's Adventures
by:
Anne LaBastille
4.23 avg rating — 262 ratings 32. 
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Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream
by:
William Powers
3.68 avg rating — 1,273 ratings 
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Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley (Volume 2) (North Texas Lives of Musician Series)
by:
Sybil Rosen
4.25 avg rating — 355 ratings 
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Closer to the Ground: An Outdoor Family's Year on the Water, in the Woods and at the Table
by:
Dylan Tomine
4.25 avg rating — 751 ratings 55. 
Scott Nearing: The Making of a Homesteader (Good Life Series): An Intellectual Biography 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Unearthed: Love, Acceptance, and Other Lessons from an Abandoned Garden
by:
Alexandra Risen
3.81 avg rating — 445 ratings 
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Becoming a Gardener: What Reading and Digging Taught Me about Living
by:
Catie Marron
3.72 avg rating — 207 ratings 
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Two Environmental Classics: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature & Henry David Thoreau's Walking 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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At Home in Nature: A Life of Unknown Mountains and Deep Wilderness
by:
Rob Wood
3.96 avg rating — 75 ratings 68. 
A Family Place: A Man Returns to the Center of His Life
by:
Charles Gaines
4.01 avg rating — 67 ratings 70. 
At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America 3.87 avg rating — 38 ratings
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A Place of Refuge: An Experiment in Communal Living – The Story of Windsor Hill Wood
by:
Tobias Jones
4.27 avg rating — 133 ratings 72. 
Flight from the city: An experiment in creative living on the land (Colophon Books)
by:
Ralph Borsodi
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings 
74. 
This ugly civilization (The American utopian adventure: series two)
by:
Ralph Borsodi
4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings 74. 
A Place Called Sweet Apple: Country Living and Southern Recipes
by:
Celestine Sibley
4.17 avg rating — 72 ratings 76. 
500 Acres and No Place to Hide: More Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl 3.52 avg rating — 258 ratings
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Five Acres and Independence: A Handbook for Small Farm Management
by:
Maurice G. Kains
3.99 avg rating — 542 ratings 77. 
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: A Singer's Stories, Songs, Seeds, Robberies
by:
Pete Seeger
4.50 avg rating — 38 ratings 79. 
Dispatches from the Sweet Life: One Family, Five Acres, and a Community's Quest to Reinvent the World
by:
William Powers
3.76 avg rating — 41 ratings 79. 
Into the Wilderness: One Woman's Extraordinary Journey through Corruption, Lies, and Betrayal
by:
Karen Marie Dion
4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings 81. 
Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City
by:
Eric Toensmeier
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 962 ratings 82. 
Ten Acres Enough: The Classic 1864 Guide to Independent Farming
by:
Edmund Morris
4.15 avg rating — 263 ratings 82. 
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Four Tenths of an Acre: Reflections on a Gardening Life
by:
Laurie Lisle
3.30 avg rating — 90 ratings 84. 
Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
by:
Cassie Chambers
3.95 avg rating — 8,461 ratings 
88. 
Cabin Lessons: A Nail-by-Nail Tale: Building Our Dream Cottage from 2x4s, Blisters, and Love
by:
Spike Carlsen
3.93 avg rating — 192 ratings 90. 
My Handkerchief Garden. Size 25 x 60 Feet. Results: A Garden, Fresh Vegetables, Exercise, Health, and $20.49
by:
Charles Barnard
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 90. 
The Road to Walden: 12 Life Lessons from a Sojourn to Thoreau's Cabin
by:
Kevin Dann
2.30 avg rating — 33 ratings 
93. 
The Contrary Farmer (Real Goods Independent Living Book)
by:
Gene Logsdon
4.23 avg rating — 590 ratings 94. 
Letter to a Young Farmer: How to Live Richly without Wealth on the New Garden Farm
by:
Gene Logsdon
4.19 avg rating — 307 ratings 95. 
Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream
by:
Gene Logsdon
4.41 avg rating — 130 ratings 96. 
Gene Everlasting: A Contrary Farmer's Thoughts on Living Forever
by:
Gene Logsdon
4.13 avg rating — 92 ratings 
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The Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse
by:
Gene Logsdon
4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings