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Specializing in equestrian homes and horse property marketing across the US and Canada
http://www.1horseproperty.com
Several young fora on various aspects of independent living, including gardening, homeschooling, and techniques. Encourages submissions.
http://outbackacres.proboards18.com./
This work of fiction tells the utopian tale of a homesteading adventure starting in 1964 and becoming a worldwide homesteading community.
http://www.kenkifer.com/newworld/index.htm
Learn about frugal living, homesteading, english cottage gardening, and cheap meal recipes. Based in Victorian Queen Village, New York.
http://www.littlecountryvillage.com/
Selected articles from the print magazine on do-it-yourself projects and self-reliant rural living.
http://www.backhomemagazine.com
Country magazine for readers seeking voluntary simplicity, greater self-reliance (homesteading) with emphasis on home food production-gardening, cooking, and food preservation.
http://www.countrysidemag.com/
Articles to learn how to start, manage, and enjoy farming on a small scale.
http://www.suite101.com/subjectheadings/contents.cfm/1038
A collaborative site dedicated to the mechanics of country living. Source of information on homesteading, modern living alternatives, farming and the old ways.
http://www.goodbyecitylife.com/index.htm
Information about homesteading, organic gardening, self-sufficiency, seed saving, solar energy and recumbent bicycles.
http://www.manytracks.com/
Homestead portal with books, classroom resources, and agricultural gifts.
http://www.farmkansas.com/
Publishers of a manual on homesteading and survival skills.
http://www.mailbooks.com
Contains an entire resource directory of information on homesteading and many other topics related to living a more natural, sustainable, and wholesome life.
http://www.homestead.org/
A northern Texas homestead attempting to live as self-sufficiently as possible. Describes raising and selling organic vegetables, fruits, eggs and natural chicken and rabbit meats.
http://www.beulahland.com/homestead/
Online catalog for food storage goods with information and hints for self-sufficient living.
http://waltonfeed.com/
An on-line book about one family's simple and sustainable-living lifestyle. Other pages include tips and inspiration for simple living, natural building, communities, the ecology and other topics.
http://www.innerexplorations.com/simpletext/simple.htm
Links for many aspects of country living from organic gardening to farm animals. Features "Homemaker's Corner."
http://members.aol.com/denise1227/page/homestead.htm
Covered topics are related to self-sufficiency, running a small farm, gardening, herbs, orcharding, livestock, and other aspects of country living.
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/simple_homesteading/
A look at a couple adopting a simpler lifestyle and restoring an abandoned homestead farm and farmhouse in Tennessee.
http://butterflyhollowfarm.com/
Home and homestead information with community features and news.
http://modernhomestead.com/
Photos and descriptions of life on a farm with animals, flowers, ferns and mushrooms.
http://www.ruralnet.org/bethassc/index.html
Catalog of country items to help folks enjoy the homestead/small farm life. Information on goats, sheep, chickens, gardening, quilting and cheese and soap making.
http://www.AuntEmma-Emporium.com/
Simple living for the urban and rural homesteader.
http://www.naturalfamilyhome.com/
Self-reliance, sustainable living and homesteading products, resources and information to prepare and protect in the event of an emergency.
http://home.emergency-outlet.com/self-reliance/
E-mail list about draft animals. Archives of past postings.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/animaltraction/
A site with a Message board and Chat room where viewers can share information and ask questions about all aspects of country living, homesteading, and home remedies.
http://www.ourcountryhaven.com/
A group where single homesteaders, or those who would like to be homesteaders, meet and exchange ideas.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/homesteading_singles
Information about many different subjects of interest.
http://www.justpeace.org/nuggetsindex.htm
A list of online and print resources recommended by a professor who specializes in research about self-sufficient living.
http://www.infography.com/content/022977990574.html
Answers to frequently asked questions and other information about small tractors.
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kb13/TF_home.htm
Homesteading and homeschooling on a mountain top in West Virginia since 1993. Domestic and exotic animals, water and electricity tips, photos.
http://www.highlonesomeranch.com/
Introduction, opinion and an organized collection of Web resources, devoted to the subject of modern homesteading, broadly defined.
http://www.jasonunbound.com/project/index.html
Essays on the topic of self-sufficient country living, from a Christian perspective.
http://pages.prodigy.net/jmiller.cb/slv.html
Promotes small-scale low-technology agriculture and backyard fruit production. The emphasis is production of cane syrup, with essays on syrup chemistry and access to bulletins.
http://www.southernmatters.com
An open forum on homesteading topics, with a strong focus on Christian and biblical concerns.
http://www.christianhomesteaders.org
Articles and journal about homesteading, gardening, livestock, simple living. Offers homemade goat's milk soap, handcrafts, natural lotion bars, handmade rice bags.
http://www.mrsdshomestead.com
A small organic homestead and education center in North Carolina. Internship possibilities and courses taught.
http://www.elon.edu/angyal/windy_knoll_farm.htm
From a homestead in the Missouri Ozarks, this site offers pieces on many topics, including cooking, crafts, gardening, and animals.
http://www.minifarmhomestead.com
A small homestead in the Catskills, engaged in an ongoing exploration of ecological and aesthetic building, gardening and living.
http://members.localnet.com/~stoh/
Frequently asked questions and answers on growing, harvesting, and storing hay for small farms.
http://www.sheepscreek.com/rural/haying.html
Modern homesteading and simple living in southern Oklahoma.
http://home.earthlink.net/~tabletophomestead
Many aspects of farming and simple living from an Asatru point of view.
http://www.othalaacres.com/homesteading/
A directory of alternative living resources which includes a listing of homesteading magazines and links.
http://www.wholeagain.com/home.html
A directory of homesteading sites including topics such as animal husbandry, gardening, self-sufficiency, alternative building and others. A largely Christian perspective, with books for sale.
http://www.homesteadinginfo.com
An expanding group of more than 900 how-to articles on homesteading, sustainability, and the simple life, as well as an active web community.
http://www.deliberatelife.com
Follows the progress and construction of a remote homestead, in Southwest Alaska, on the Iliamna River.
http://www.pawcreekhomestead.com
Organic family homestead raising Dexter cattle for beef and dairy, Arabian horses, chickens, and various other homestead animals.
http://www.freewebs.com/nagnoufarms/
An online resource that requires a paid subcription to "Down To The Roots Magazine," hich is geared to the new or long-time homesteader. All articles are written by homesteaders.
http://www.downtotheroots.net
A network to promote and help smallholders and homesteaders living in the West Wales area, with public material, wanted listings and membership.
http://www.westwalessmallholders.co.uk
A developing forum discussing homesteading and rural resources, for Pagans or anyone who lives close to the Earth.
http://www.pagan-homesteader.com/
Articles and weblog about back-to-basics living, by a homesteader with thirty years of experience.
http://www.backwoodsliving.com
Instruction, with photographs, for the construction of simple rural homes, and commentary on the desirability of anonymous rural living.
http://www.fetarts.com
Tips on living a "back to basics" lifestyle, including canning, livestock, and other homesteading staples.
http://www.gardenandhearth.com/BacktoBasics.htm