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Saturday, April 14, 2012

eBooks For Homesteaders & Preparers

My new Saturday topic is now a list of books I have discovered for your kindle. If you aren't a Kindle owner, you may want to download the Free Kindle Reading Apps from Amazon, that makes it possible for you to read Kindle books on your computer. My list today is eBooks for the homesteader, prepper or just someone who likes to be independent and ready if an emergency situation arises. You know how much I like that topic!

Prep School: Cooking Without Electricity - This eBook is written by Ash Bauer and is a short topic book put together by the Prep School. They have other topics as well, or will soon. This book focuses on how to cook if there is a power outage, and how to do it safely.

Poverty Prepping: How to Stock up For Tomorrow When You Can't Afford To Eat Today - What a great idea for a book! So many people contact me with this very question. This eBook is written by fellow homesteader, Sue Gregersen, who not only writes books on prepping and homesteading, but actually lives it!

Emergency Food Storage - A Primer On Long Term Food Storage And Emergency Preparedness - This eBook is written by Byrant Jones. From the reasons why you may need to prepare, to how to store your supplies, or what items to store to barter with others, including an introduction to seeds, and which ones to store, he gives a lot of important preparedness information.

Growing Root Vegetables At Home: A guide on how to grow amazingly tasty potatoes, carrots, beetroots, parsnips, swedes and turnips - Written by Oliver Ramsey, this eBook is a guide to growing potatoes, carrots, beets, parsnips, swedes and turnips. Root vegetables are an essential vegetable to grow because it can be stored for a long period. Fill your root cellar with roots and you will eat all winter and early spring!

Coconut Cures: Preventing and Treating Common Health Problems with Coconut - This eBook written by Bruce Fife, is so good, and full of information that most people may not have any idea about. I had this book in paper form and I loved it. Learn how good coconut is for your health! Learn how it can prevent diseases and cure many other health issues.

Crochet Rag Rugs Household Pattern Collection (How to Make a Rag Rug) - This eBook is written by Sarah Holmes and is very valuable information for a preparer or homesteader. Knowing how to make rag rugs in times when you need them or can barter them with others is an excellent idea! This eBook is a bit pricey at $14.97, but it is a pattern book and that alone, makes it worth every penny.

Basic Soap Making: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (How To Basics) - Soap making is essential for most homesteaders, and it is a good thing to know how to do. This eBook will get you started if you have not done it yet.

Oral Health, Naturally: Homemade Toothpaste and Mouthwash Recipes - This eBook is essential for knowing how to make toothpaste and mouthwash. Written by Kirsten Anderberg who has been a vaudevillian performer for over 30 years, and writes about natural health, poverty and other interesting topics.

Unplugged - Written by Hillary Bergeon, this eBook is the author's memoir of surviving her move to building an off-the-grid home in the Appalachian Mountains.

Living on an Acre, 2nd: A Practical Guide to the Self-Reliant Life - If you are wanting to move to your own homestead, then this eBook is for you! This is the classic USDA book on self-reliant living, completely revised and updated.

I hope you find some you like. If you buy any eBooks at Amazon and think they would be good for homesteaders or for being self-sufficient or prepping, please comment with the name of the book and author, so I can add it here next week. If you are an author and would like me to review your eBook, contact me!

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Monday, November 28, 2011

Free Homesteading Books For My Kindle Fire!

As all my readers know by now, my husband recently bought me a Kindle Fire. So I was excited to go to Amazon to pick out some books to read. What I discovered was a lot of FREE books. They aren't just free, but for a homesteading gal with a mind set on the old ways of doing things...........it is a GOLDMINE!

I have discovered so many new books to me that were written in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Before 1923, means there is no copywrite on these books. I am having a field day on these books! Now I can't wait to get off my computer in the early evening, so I can read my new books on my Kindle Fire. I know we usually think free things are not worth anything. Well for me, these books are full of information that can be used even today. Yes, there is some information that is outdated. But I like reading how they did things back then. I take what information I can use and go from there.

Here is list of some of the books I bought from the Kindle store and loved: (ALL But one is FREE!)

1. Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visitamong the "Pennsylvania Germans" - Edith Thomas - This book is the first one I got for the Kindle Fire. It is the story of a young girl, Mary coming to stay at her Aunt and Uncle's farm to learn how to be a housewife for her upcoming marriage. The discussions between her and her Aunt are priceless. It is also a cookbook with Mary and her Aunt's recipes. And VERY good recipes!

2. The American Frugal Housewife - Lydia Maria Francis Child - This book had many good reviews on Amazon even though most of the women liked it from the historical stand point. I liked learning new frugal things that were so common back then. If you let yourself, you can learn from reading books like this.

3. Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking - Unknown author - This cookbook could become my favorite. It has all those classic recipes we know of the Amish cook lore. The recipes for Rivels, Hot Dutch Potato Salad, Chicken and Corn Soup, etc.

4. Dishes and Beverages of the Old South - Martha McCulloch-Williams - This book is another one that is part historical and big part the recipes. The author tells about her "Mammy" and how she did things. Lots of detail on her kitchen, and cooking with, and cleaning the cast iron cookware. Very good info! I love this book and can't wait to sit down and just read it.

5. The Virginia Housewife - Mary Randolph -This is considered one of the first cookbooks of its time period. When looking through it I found many shortcuts and substitutions for various ingredients. She had a recipe for "Mock Macaroni", croquets, vermecelli, and just about every kind of pudding you can think of....and many you can't!

6. The Book of Household Management - Mrs. Isabella Mary Beeton - This book is another one that is a cookbook and book combined. I think in the day of these books, they explained why or what the history was of the recipes or way of doing things came about. The author is instructing you how to be a good mistress of the house. Doing your work in a timely manner and doing it so you don't have to do it over and over. I found it very helpful for some things I want to work on myself.

7. Self-Sufficiency (Back to Basics Guides) -Abigail R. Gehring - This book I accidentally bought when I first tried to buy using Amazon Prime. It has a lot of good information and is good for anyone new to homesteading. I am hopeful I will learn something new in it. Not saying that I know it all!

8. Life in the Backwoods - Susanna Moodie - This book I have just started and it has already grabbed my interest. I like reading about this time period and the way of life. The descriptions of the way things were cooked, cleaned and cared for make the book well worth my time.

9. Letters of a Woman Homesteader - Elinore Pruitt Stewart - I have had this book in my computer for some time. Before I got my Kindle Fire I was reading it on my computer. I have been putting a chapter on my NY Homesteading group's forum daily, as it is just so good. The author is writing this book as letter written to her former employer.

10. Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Anna Balmer Myers - This book is a novel and I have not started it yet. I glanced through it and I can't wait to start reading it. It is about a young girl who has lost her mother and is being raised by someone else, learning the ways of the plain people that her mother would have taught her.

I will be putting up more books here as I read them. All of these books are free except for the Self-Sufficiency book. Amazon did not ask me to write this post, and they are not paying me for it (doggone it!). But I am an affiliate of Amazon, so be sure to read my link below for more information on that process. So if you click on all but one of the links, they are free. If you like these kind of books, you are in for a treat! By the way, you do not have to own a Kindle to download the free books on Amazon, they have an app there for reading them on your computer. Check it out!