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5 The Most Important

Self-Reliance Skill Ever

Put into practice these six habits to master the true make-or-break homesteading skill: getting the right work done, the right way.

9 Coppicing Trees for

Sustainable Firewood

You can grow firewood in a fraction of the time it takes to raise a tree from seed.

12 Best Staple Crops

for Building Food Self-Sufficiency

These 10 space-efficient, calorierich, staple crops give high yields and store easily to boost food security and save money.

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18 Lesson From

Off-Grid Living

Practical advice from a 20-year veteran homesteader helps you shift to a low-carbon lifestyle.

22 Earning on an Acre

Intensive square-foot gardening makes it possible to make more than $43,000 per acre in produce.

25 Haymaking Tools

For the Small Farm

These implements and tips make haymaking practical and economical, no matter your acreage.

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28 Top Tools for a

Half-Acre Homestead

DIY veteran Lloyd Kahn recommends the tools and tactics that have kept his homestead humming for 40 years.

33 Fish Farming

It’s a lot like vegetable gardening, only wetter.

36 Homesteading

on Marginal Land

Use an imaginative eye to find land for a farm, and transform it with sound husbandry practices.

41 Seed Starting Made Simple

Restless as the season turns? Keep your green thumb nimble during the off-season and seeding indoors.

COVER PHOTOGRAPH: WILLIAM D. ADAMS

Shift to a low-carbon lifestyle with practical advice from homesteaders who live entirely off-grid.

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