Homestead Survival Skills

Homestead Survival Skills

★★★★★ 4.9 · 3,187 households

Three generations ago every household could grow, preserve, build and repair. We handed all four to somebody else and never asked what happens when they stop answering. This is how you take them back — as illustrated, step-by-step projects you can start this weekend.

SurviveThe first 72 hours
SustainWater, food & power
DefendHome & family
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Four things we handed over

We didn't lose these skills. We outsourced them.

Every one of these was ordinary household knowledge inside living memory. Today the average American home cannot produce a single day of its own food, water, heat or repairs — and almost nobody has stopped to notice. Here is what that dependency costs, and how you take each piece back.

01 / BUILD

We Outsourced The Workshop

A broken chair used to mean an evening with a hand plane. Now it means a delivery van, a contractor's waiting list, or a landfill and a replacement.

What that dependency costs: when the part is backordered six weeks, when the tradesman won't come out, when replacing costs more than the thing was worth — a household that can't repair simply does without.

How you take it backHand-tool basics, joinery that holds without hardware, and eleven repair projects covering most of what actually breaks in a house.
02 / GROW

We Outsourced The Harvest

A vegetable garden used to be a normal feature of a normal home. Not a hobby, not a statement — it fed people through winters that were genuinely hard.

What that dependency costs: the average supermarket holds about three days of stock, and the food on its shelves travelled roughly fifteen hundred miles to get there. Interrupt either end of that chain and the shelves are bare before the weekend is over.

How you take it backWhat to plant for calories rather than salad, bed layouts by climate, seed saving, and the crops that keep producing even when you neglect them.
03 / KEEP

We Outsourced The Season

Refrigeration is barely a century old. Everything humans ate before that was preserved by somebody in the house who knew exactly what they were doing.

What that dependency costs: a full refrigerator is four hours from spoiled once the power stops, and a freezer buys you two days. Every calorie a modern family owns is hostage to an unbroken supply of electricity.

How you take it backWater-bath and pressure canning with safe timings, curing and smoking meat, building a cold store, and what actually spoils versus what only looks wrong.
04 / SUPPLY

We Outsourced The Well And The Woodpile

Turn a tap and it arrives. Flip a switch and the room warms. Both are agreements with a system you do not control, have never inspected, and cannot repair.

What that dependency costs: municipal water moves on electric pumps, so when the grid fails the pressure fades within hours — and the first hour is the only window you get to fill anything. Independence starts the day you can produce a little of each yourself.

How you take it backRain catchment and filtration you can build in a weekend, gravity-fed storage, wood heat done safely, and cooking without a single watt.
Table of contents

Twelve skills. 140+ projects.

Every one illustrated and broken into numbered steps, so you can start on a Saturday morning and finish before dinner.

01

Hand Tools & Joinery

Sharpen, cut and join without a power outlet.

02

Growing For Calories

A garden that feeds people, not one that decorates.

03

Canning & Preserving

Safe timings, jars, and what a bad seal looks like.

04

Curing & Cold Storage

Meat and dairy through a winter, with no freezer.

05

Water: Catch, Filter, Store

Rain catchment and gravity feed you can build.

06

Fire, Heat & Cooking

Wood heat done safely, and cooking off-grid.

07

Mending & Making Do

Sew, patch and darn so clothing lasts years.

08

Shelter & Repair

Roofs, walls, doors and the repairs that matter.

09

Map, Compass & Land

Navigate and read ground without a signal.

10

Animals & Small Livestock

Chickens, bees, and the honest amount of work.

11

Remedies From The Garden

What grandmothers grew, and what it was for.

12

Barter & Neighbours

The skill that outlasts every stockpile.

The complete library

Three books. One shelf that covers it.

Volume I teaches the skills. The other two cover what happens when the grid stops and when the map runs out.

Homestead Survival Skills

Volume I. Twelve skills, 140+ illustrated projects — the backbone of the library.

$30EVERY TIER

No Grid Survival Projects

Build-it projects for when the power stops: power, water, heat and light you make yourself.

$302 BOOKS +

Wilderness Long-Term Survival Guide

Living off land you don't own, for longer than a weekend. Shelter, water, food, movement.

$30LIBRARY
Free with every order, every tier

The Rally Point Kit

A fill-in family plan. Who calls who, where you meet, what the kids do — agreed once, on paper, while it's still easy.

$24FREE

50-State Water Map Pack

Printable water-source maps for your state. Works fine on the day the mapping app doesn't.

$29FREE

The Frequency Sheet

NOAA, GMRS and ham channels worth writing down tonight, on one page you can tape inside a cabinet door.

$15FREE
Reader reports

From bookmarking things to actually doing them.

★★★★★

“I've saved a thousand of these projects and finished none of them. Two weekends with this book and I have a working rain barrel and a shelf of tomatoes.”

Sarah M. — Verified
★★★★★

“My grandmother canned every summer and I never once asked her how. This is the closest I'll get to having that conversation.”

Jenna P. — Verified
★★★★★

“Bought the full library for the drive, honestly. Stayed for the joinery chapter. My kids helped me build the cold store.”

Frank D. — Verified
Sneak peek

Look Inside the Book

Four real pages from Homestead Survival Skills. Every skill is laid out the same way: what it is, why it matters, and the exact steps, illustrated.

Water · p.47Food · p.112Repair · p.168Navigation · p.203
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That's four of two hundred and forty.

Questions

Before you order.

Do I need land or tools to start?

No. Roughly a third of the projects work in an apartment or on a balcony, and the tool list for the first section comes in under a hundred dollars, most of it second-hand. The book names the cheap version and tells you the few places where spending more is genuinely worth it.

What's the difference between the three books?

Homestead Survival Skills teaches hands-on household self-reliance — growing, preserving, building, mending. No Grid Survival Projects covers building your own power, water and heat when the grid stops. Wilderness Long-Term Survival Guide covers living off land you don't own, for longer than a weekend.

What's on the Black Box drive?

A full offline copy of Wikipedia, open medical and first-aid libraries, topographic and road maps for all fifty states, repair manuals, and 60,000+ curated self-reliance documents. Plugs into any USB port. No internet, no subscription, ever.

Is the EMP Shielded Box a gimmick?

It's a Faraday enclosure — a conductive shell that shields electronics from electromagnetic pulse and solar-storm surge. Your library ships inside it, and the drive lives in it afterwards. It costs us more to ship this way. We do it anyway.

What if it isn't for me?

Ninety days, full refund, and you keep the books. We'd rather they stayed on your shelf than came back to our warehouse.

One weekend to the first project

Learn it before you need it.

Three books, the EMP Shielded Box, the 1TB archive and the Day Zero Club — sixty dollars for the shelf your grandparents never had to buy.

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