Plan the Perfect Homestead

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April/May 2006
Edited by John Stuart, Carol Mack and Megan Phelps 
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David Schafer farms in northern Missouri and is the author of Just the Greatest Life. He and his wife, Alice, sell natural meats from their Web site.

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Ed Smith is the author of The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible. Ed and Sylvia homestead in Marshfield, Vt. Their home is heated with wood and powered with solar energy.

Harvey Ussery is retired from the postal service. He and Ellen live on a Virginia farm where Harvey offers a Poultry 101 seminar. His Web site is www.themodernhomestead.us/poultry.html.

Scott Vlaun is a writer and photographer who lives on 50 acres in Maine with his wife, Zizi. They are currently building their own home.

Bryan Welch is the publisher of MOTHER EARTH NEWS and lives on a 50-acre farm outside of Lawrence, Kan., where he and his wife, Carolyn, have a large garden, 40 free-range chickens and grass-fed cattle, goats and sheep.

Homesteading Resources

Country Skills

•The Encyclopedia of Country Living, by Carla Emery
•The Have-More Plan, by Ed and Carolyn Robinson
•Living on an Acre, by the U.S. Department of Agriculture

Home and Energy

•The Natural House, by Dan Chiras
•Renovation: A Complete Guide, by Michael Litchfield
•The Solar-Electric House, by Steve Strong
•Wind Energy Basics, by Paul Gipe

Personal Accounts

•The Good Life, by Helen and Scott Nearing
•Just the Greatest Life, by David Schafer
•Rural Renaissance, By John Ivanko and Lisa Kivirist

Food and Farming

•All Flesh is Grass, by Gene Logsdon
•Barnyard in your Backyard, by Gail Damerow
•The Big Book of Preserving the Harvest, by Carol W. Costenbader
•Four Season Harvest, by Eliot Coleman
•Vegetable Gardener's Bible, by Ed Smith
•You Can Farm, by Joel Salatin

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