Many are led back to the land after experiencing a serious health challenge. Learn how to grow your own chemical free food and live without some of today’s conveniences that have compromised the health of your body and the planet.

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Earth Skills
For the past twenty years, Earth Skills has taught tracking, wilderness survival and nature awareness to thousands of outdoor lovers, both novice and experienced.

Primitive
A non-profit organization dedicated to the research, practice and teaching of primitive technology, earth skills, wilderness survival and Native awareness.

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Homestead
An online magazine devoted to the simple pleasures and common-sense lifestyle of rural living.

Homesteading Today
A discussion forum for homesteaders offering neighborly help and thoughtful advice.

Low Impact Living Initiative
A non-profit organization based in the UK whose mission is to help people reduce their impact on the environment, improve their quality of life, gain new skills, live in a healthier and more satisfying way, have fun, and save money.

Open Directory Project: Homesteading
Open Directory Project listings for homesteading and rural living.

Path to Freedom
A grassroots, family operated, viable urban homesteading project established to promote a simpler and more fulfilling lifestyle and reduce one family’s “footprint” on the earth’s dwindling resources. Since the mid 1980s, all five members of the Dervaes family have steadily worked at transforming their ordinary city lot in Pasadena, California, into an organic permaculture garden supplying them with food all year round. They also run a successful business, Dervaes GardensRead More, providing salad greens to local restaurants. This helps them fund their purchases of solar panels, energy efficient appliances, and biodiesel processor to further decrease their homestead’s reliance on the earth’s non-renewable resources.

The Dirt Doctor
A great resource for natural organic gardening and living.

The Modern Homestead
Dedicated to the skills and philosophy for more self-reliant living. Whether you have access to fifty acres or only a patio pot, you have the opportunity to produce more of your own food for yourself and your family, to enter more fully into the yearly cycle, and to know your place in the web of life.

The New Farm
Farmer-to-farmer know-how from the Rodale Institute—presents expert resources for crop and livestock production, direct marketing, local food systems, policy campaigns and community-building collaborations in order to inform, encourage, equip and inspire farmers with the support they need to take the important transition steps toward regenerative agriculture.