Weekend Homesteader: January
”Are you dreaming of summer tomatoes and homegrown eggs? January is the perfect time to get next year's garden off to a good start by testing and improving your soil. Meanwhile, building a chicken coop or tractor will pave the way for bringing home some egg-laying friends next month. For more immediate gratification, learn the science behind bread-making and prepare emergency lighting systems so you're not stuck in the dark if the power goes out.
"For those of you who are new to Weekend Homesteader, this series walks you through the basics of growing your own food, cooking the bounty, preparing for emergency power outages, and achieving financial independence. Technically, the series began in May (or November in the southern hemisphere), but most of the projects are designed to be accessible even to someone starting from square one each month. This ebook, and each other volume in the series, presents one easy and fun project for each weekend so that you'll keep making headway without becoming overwhelmed.”
Simple Emergency Food Storage
Simple Emergency Water Storage
Vintage Remedies Guide to Bread
”Research reveals that bread provided between 53% and 75% of the daily intake for ancient civilizations...Yet bread is now considered to be unhealthy and is even harmful for many. Ever wonder what happened? Explore the truth about one of our oldest and most loved dietary staples in the Guide to Bread. In this eye-opening book, Jessie Hawkins explains how scientists have produced wheat bread using ancient methods that is gluten free and safe for celiac patients, how specific additives and alterations have been directly linked with the rise in gluten intolerance, and why the real solution to bread isn't found in freshly milled wheat or soaking grains. You'll also learn how real bread can help alleviate what the World Health Organization calls the most common nutrient deficiency, why most store bought gluten free foods are unhealthy, and how you can produce your own healthy, real bread - effortlessly - in your own home!”
SOLAR COOKING: DIFFERENT TYPES OF SOLAR COOKERS THE PROS AND CONS OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF SOLAR COOKERS AND WHAT WILL WORK BEST FOR YOU
May be very basic, haven’t read yet, but short. See what you think.
Homebrewing For Beginners
100 Year Old Recipes You Can Still Make Today: HOMEMADE CANDIES
All About Gold
PhD Whitetails
Hunting deer that are tough to catch.
Alabama's Offshore Fishing: A Year-Round Guide for Catching Over 15 Species of Fish
Defeat Your Cancer - Alternative Cancer Cure Rediscovered
Edible Bugs - Insects on Our Plates
Our Daily Bread; The Essential Norman Borlaug
The man who developed high-yield wheat and corn to feed twice as many people from the same land, and gave away the seeds.
Risk Rules: How Local Politics Threaten the Global Economy
Not available to Canada, I don’t know where else.
Boy with a White Flag
“an account of the effects on an ordinary German boy of the horrors of Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship…Efforts of a devoted mother to protect him from the influences of Nazi ideology are hampered by the leanings of some members of their extended family and the involuntary participation of the boy’s father in the Nazi army. She teaches her son to be secretive, relying on him to warn her about possible detection as she tunes the radio to the forbidden BBC in an effort to obtain accurate information about the war…Scarcity of food during the post-war years and the absence of his father force the boy to connive and steal to stave off their hunger… “
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The Chaos of Days
The brink of a new millennium: Global economies boom at unprecedented rates and then tumble into recession. Headlines scream new scourges and epidemics abroad. Social problems run rampant. Old industries struggle to stay afloat while new companies fly on the wings of fresh technologies. Taxes, pollution, job cuts, and a world spinning out of control. Everything is moving so fast. How is a simple family man supposed to cope? And how is he supposed to keep his family together?
The Return of Elliott Eastman
“Elliott Eastman, former U.S. Army ranger, two time U.S. Senator from Colorado and billionaire has just been told he has six months to live. Some would wilt under the fearsome weight of such news, but not Elliott. Quietly, with the help of a few key friends and his long lost love he plans to change the American way of life forever. What he intends to do would have been morally repugnant to him just a few years ago, but now it is a no holds barred fight to the finish. The hardest part of the task will be convincing the President of the United States to join him in the effort. With six months to live will he be able to reach his goal? It is a race against time to save the future.”
The Cell
Religious fiction. "A shocking glimpse into post-Obama America... Years after the financial crash of 2008, America stumbles from crisis to crisis and continues to slog through the mire of the Great Recession”...National healthcare problems, assassinations and bombings, rising taxes, Tolerance in Religion and Media Acts (TIRMA), people leaving for better opportunities in other lands. etc... But on the tenth anniversary of TIRMA, a priest makes final preparations to douse those flames and cut to the heart of the nation.”
The Damnation of Memory
“The dual catastrophes of peak oil and a decade-long grain blight have annihilated the gas pump and breadbox of North America. The great cities of the northeast corridor have imploded, leaving only tiny rural Amish communities intact and subsisting, as they ever have, unhindered by the need for fuel or mass-produced food. The two friends have grown accustomed to the Amish ways, and earn their keep delivering mail on foot from far-flung farm communities stretched from Indiana and Illinois to Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. In the absence of people, nature has begun to retake what man has built. Cities and towns teem with wildlife and crumble year after year, and even amongst the warmth of the Amish, the two men find it difficult with each passing year to make sense of what has happened to their way of life...”
The Uncertainty Principle (Science Fiction Detective Story)
Short story. “In a dystopian Britain in the near future, two detectives investigate the disappearance of a young girl, leading them into a dark world filled with evil predators.”
On The Pacific Rim (The Long Journey Home)
This is the second in a series. "In this tale of an Apocalyptic Earth, Brad and his crew continue on their way to Jacksonville, Florida in the USA. However, a stop over in Vietnam brings them a few problems. Vika, a Russian lieutenant and Earl an MIA from the Vietnam War in the 60's and 70's make an appearance. Between the Army and Navy of New Vietnam, Slave Traders, Pirates, and General Run of the Mill Scum, Brad has his hands full.”
The first, The Journey Begins (The Long Journey Home)
, was listed here free on September 13. The third, Hong Kong Trade Off (The Long Journey Home)
, I have not seen yet. The whole story is this: “Brad, a US Navy SEAL stationed in Djibouti, wakes up one morning to find everyone else on the base dead…(He) cannot contact anyone anywhere. All he hears are a few automated distress calls. Brad takes care of his dead and readies himself for a trip…He takes an Armed, Computerized Patrol Boat and heads… (around Asia) to the Bearing Straits. … he follows the coast down to Washington. There he gets another vehicle and starts across country to Jacksonville. He finds out that roughly ten percent of the world's population is still alive. With no law enforcement left and all the world's weapons just laying around for anyone to pick up, chaos reigns. Women and children become currency. A human life is worth less than nothing. Along the way Brad picks up a crew of people he has rescued from dire straits. He finds out that the Journey Home is going to take a lot longer than he thought.”
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77 Days in September
“On a Friday afternoon before Labor Day, Americans are getting ready for the holiday weekend, completely unaware of a long-planned terrorist plot about to be launched against the country. Kyle Tait is settling in for his flight home to Montana when a single nuclear bomb is detonated 300 miles above the heart of America. The blast, an Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP), destroys every electrical device in the country, and results in the crippling of the power grid, the shutting down of modern communications, and bringing to a halt most forms of transportation.
Kyle narrowly escapes when his airplane crashes on take-off, only to find himself stranded 2,000 miles from home in a country that has been forced, from a technological standpoint, back to the 19th Century. Confused, hurt, scared, and alone, Kyle must make his way across a hostile continent to a family he’s not even sure has survived the effects of the attack. As Kyle forges his way home, his frightened family faces their own struggles for survival in a community trying to halt its slow spiral into chaos and anarchy. “
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The Hurricane
By the author of the acclaimed WOOL, a post-apocalyptic series that’s very highly rated. Several of them have been posted here before so you may have those already.
”Daniel Stillman has 42 Facebook friends. His cell phone contains 18 contacts, two of them for pizza delivery. Six people follow him on Twitter. Four readers subscribe to his blog; he's pretty sure one of them followed him on accident.
And now a category 5 storm is about to wipe all this away.
In its wake will be left a single girl, a neighbor he never knew, and a new reprieve from the digital maelstrom of his life, a great silence like the eye of some terrific storm.”
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