Resources

Books We Recommend

• A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold

• The Unsettling of America, by Wendell Berry

• Home Economics, by Wendell Berry

• Salad Bar Beef, by Joel Salatin

• Pastured Poultry Profits, by Joel Salatin

• You Can Farm, by Joel Salatin

• Comeback Farms, by Greg Judy

• Feeding Farm Animals, by Thomas Shaw

• The Winter Harvest Handbook, by Eliot Coleman

• Four Season Harvest, by Eliot Coleman

• Will Bonsall’s Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening, by Will Bonsall

• The Art of Natural Cheesemaking, by David Asher

• The Nourishing Homestead, by Ben Hewitt

• The Small Scale Poultry Flock, by Harvey Ussery

Movies We Like

• Food Inc

• Alan Savory Ted Talk

Products We Like

• Dougherty Butcher Trailer, a portable butchering trailer that every community ought to own

• Horn O Plenty, a farm to table in Bedford, PA

• Wild Country, Kaleb Hanshaw can tell you how to find abandoned or degraded land and work to regenerate it

Videos and Podcasts with Shawn and Beth

Behind a paywall

• School of Traditional Skills Classes

  • The Dairy Cow

  • Managing Milk

  • Making Cheese

• Warrior Poet Society

  • Help My Homestead

• Beyond Labels (Joel Salatin)

• Justin Rhodes Master Classes
  and Abundance Plus

  • Frugal Homesteading Course

Free on the Web

Podcasts and Videos

• Greg Peterson

  • Farmsteading

• Beyond Labels

  • Can you Graze a Cow on Your Home Lawn?

• Rooted in Organic

  • A Farm That Feeds Us

• Sustainable World Radio

  • Growing Soil, Biodiversity and Food with Grass Fed Animals

• Thriving Farmer

  • The Art of Farming

• The Urban Farm

  • Utilizing managed intensive grazing to maximize benefit for land and animals

• Plain Value

  • Pain Through Gain

• The Homestead Festival

  • Keeping the Family in the Family Farm

  • Feeding the Farm from the Farm

  • The Dairy Cow

  • Farming with your Better Half

• Homesteaders of America

  • Raw Milk Doesn’t Go Bed with Good Management

  • How to Get Started with your Family Milk Cow

  • Sustaining your Homestead During Inflation and More

• Acres USA

  • Homestead Wisdom

• Living Web Farms

  • Reviving the Independent Farmstead (6 parts)

• Building Culture (Austin Tunnell)

  • From Barren Land to Thriving Farm

• Sprinkle with Soil

  • Independent Farming

• Justin Rhodes

  • I Spent a Day on a Monastery Farm

  • Farm Thrives on Imperfections

  • Building a Homestead

  • Burn Out, House Burning, and Frugal Homesteading

• Abundance Plus

  • Dry Cellars

  • Throw out the Idea of a Farm

  • Rethink an Outdoor Kitchen

• Beyond Labels

  • Does Homesteading actually Save You Money

  • Small-Scale Homesteading

• School of Traditional Skills

  • Does the Idea of Raw Milk Scare you?

  • Keeping the Family Dairy Cow

  • How to Safely Filter Raw Milk

• The Cottager’s Podcast

  • Low Input Farming, Beginning Homesteading and the Catholic Faith

• Farm 2 Table Show

  • Advice on Buying and Reclaiming Land

  • Turning Unproductive Land into your Dream Far

  • How to Beat the Feed Bill

• Homestead Living

  • Flouring with “Unsuitable” Land

• The Coop

  • From Neglect to Abundance (transforming your land and your life)

• Elevate the Ordinary

  • Regenerative Farming: Finding God’s Pattern

• The Stay at Work Home

  • Interview

• Provision Homestead

  • Finding Side Income on the Homestead

• Food Independence Summit

  • Starting a Homestead

• The Homestead Guy

  • Why everyone should own a Dairy Cow

• New Polity - Good Soil

  • No Weeds in the Garden of Eden

  • Milk

  • No Collapse in the Garden of Eden

• The Farmstead Meatsmith

  • Intro to Dairy Farmers

  • Getting a Dairy Cow (Part 1)

  • Getting a Dairy Cow (Part 2)

• Life Site News

  • The Physical and Spiritual Benefits of Homesteading

• Paleovalley

  • The Independent Farmstead

Articles

• Our Sunday Visitor

  • How the Bread of Life fueled a lifestyle

• Catholic World Report

  • The Intelligent Farmer

• Midstory

  • In America’s Heartland, Homesteading is Making a Comeback

• Epoch Times

  • Grace, Goats, and a Dairy Cow: How 2 Self-Taught Farmers Turned Rejected Land into their Homestead

Magazine and Other written information

• Mother Earth News

• Grit

• Hobby Farms (Link to all the articles we have written for Hobby Farms)

• Plain Values

• Homesteaders of America

• Modern Homesteading

• Pittsburgh

• Epoch Times