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Living on an Acre: A Practical Guide to the Self-Reliant Life

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This book offers very little useful information on rural living other than references for where to get real information. It gives a superficial overview of the many ways you can make a few dollars off of your cottage or hobby farm, but not enough details on any subject to be helpful.

This book was obviously not intended for people wanting information about living on a small, rural homestead. Instead, it seems designed for bored yuppie housewives who want "something rural" on their bookshelf or who are looking for a few hobby ideas and little more.

A better place to start for a Practical Guide to the Self Reliant Life would be : "How to Survive Without a Salary: Learning How to Live the Conserver Lifestyle," by Charles Long.

This book is great if you just retired and want to start a small hobbie farm and you have lots of money to spend, because that is what the Government wants you to do in this book. I think they really need to retitle this book because it is not fitting! It offers nothing of value if you really want to make a go at trying to live on a small scale farm and be self-suffient. They keep pointing you to buy this or spend money here to do that. But if your really trying to live off a small scale piece of land I would recommend Joel Salatin "You Can Farm."

Good luck to you if you are going to try and do this!

"Living on An Acre" is an excellent update to the DoA publication "Living on a Few Acres". If you want to buy "Living on a Few Acres" due to it's recommendation in past articles or books pass on it and order this book instead. The base information is still the same just updated by a few decades.

this is a good resource if you are thinking about living on land. It makes you consider practical issues.