Link Library

Links page rebuilt June 2010.

Food

AAOOB Storable Foods
Long term storage foods for almost every budget.

DIY Dehydrated Meals
Creating your own backpacking dehydrated meals.

LDS Food Storage Calculator
This is an on-line program that can help you determine the amounts of long terms storage foods that you need for a given period of time.

MRE Depot
A great selection of MRE and canned long term storage foods, prices and shipping are very reasonable.

Survival Warehouse
Specializes in prepared kits for 3 months to 1 year per person.

Walton Feed
One of the largest suppliers of dehydrated foods and bulk foods for long term storage in the United States. They also carry the materials to help you package your own foods for storage.

Alternative Construction

CFL Lamps
Numerous CFL lamps that are real energy savers.

Ferrocement Root Cellar
DIY using Earth Bags and Ferrocement

Pyramodule Homes
Very unique and great looking home kits.

Straw Bale Construction Plans
Great information on Straw Bale construction, and plenty of plans to look at.

Sun Life Construction
Dedicated to helping the owner builder design and build their dream home at an affordable cost for construction, as well as creating an environment which is healthy and aesthetically delightful. Also, designing for the future by providing a structure which is as energy self-sufficient and as permanent as possible.

Alternative Heat and Power

ABS Alaskan
Alternative energy and remote power products. Plenty of info, and the products to implement it.

Backwoods Solar Electric Systems
Specializes in solar generated electricity for remote homes where utility lines are not available or not practical to access (over 1/2 mile distant from the site).

Build It Solar
Plans, Tools and Information to do renewable energy and conservation projects.

DIY Solar Panel Kits
Silicon Solar offers a large selection of DIY solar kits like solar cell sample pack, soldering iron, solar cell test leads, digital multi meter, reverse diode, solar cell sample pack, flux.

Fuel Degradation in Storage
Information on the storage of Diesel and Gasoline

Home Generator Installation
Electric generators are potentially lethal if not used properly. There is a very real risk of injuring or killing someone working on power lines with an improperly connected generator.

How I home-built an electricity producing Wind turbine
It was easy, you can do it too.

Roger Sanders’ Waste Oil Heater
Roger Sanders’ improved version of the Mother Earth News waste oil heater solves all the problems that made the original MEN version difficult to use.

Books and Publications

AVMA Emergency Preparedness and Response
The AVMA Disaster Preparedness and Response Guide is searchable pdf of disaster resource information designed for veterinarians, veterinary technicians, emergency managers, and others interested in planning for animals in disasters.

Backwoods Home Magazine
Many free articles on line from current issues and their archives. Good information, a magazine worth subscribing to.

Countryside & Small Stock Journal
COUNTRYSIDE is the truly original country magazine (established 1917) serving that branch of the Voluntary Simplicity movement seeking greater self-reliance (homesteading), with emphasis on home food production. This includes gardening, small-scale livestock, cooking, food preservation, resource conservation, recycling, frugality, money management, alternative energy, old-time skills, home business, and much more.

Home Power Magazine
Home Power magazine, the hands-on journal of home-made power, grew out of our passion for renewable energy (RE).

Mother Earth News
US magazine about sustainable, self-reliant living. Provides current online articles and resources.

No Such Thing as Doomsday – (Out of Print, Check eBay for used copies)
How to prepare for Power Outages, Terrorism, War, and other Threats…. A great book that covers every aspect of shelter construction.

Organic Gardening.com
Online version of the print magazine. Forums, archives, and principles.

Firearms: Sporting Military and Defense

AR15.COM
This site is dedicated to knowledge of the AR-15 and its variants. Many topics are covered including legal aspects of these rifles. Very Good Information!

Homeland Vault Doors
Description: Why stop at just a gun safe, go for the full on vault. The doors here turn any room into a vault (as long as the walls aren’t only sheetrock!).

The FAL Files
The Fusil Automatique Leger (FAL) or Light Automatic Rifle (LAR) manufactured by Fabrique National, was originally designed to fire the 7.92mm Kurz cartridge developed by the Germans in World War II. However, post-war pressure for a more powerful cartridge produced the compromise 7.62mm x 51 (.308 Winchester), which could easily be manufactured on machines producing the .30 caliber service cartridge. The new more powerful round was selected as the NATO standard.

The Nation Rifle Association
The official web site of the National Rife Association. Preserve your rights, become a member.

Individual Preparedness

This section under construction / revision

Self Reliance and Country Living

Butchering Poultry
Butchering skills are almost essential for anyone serious about keeping an ongoing homestead flock.

Christian Simple Living
Aiming towards a simpler life. Recipes, Home Schooling, Family oriented.

Kountry Life
Country and rural life. Photos, Articles, Humor, Livestock, Gardening, Farming, Recipes, more.

Field Dressing and Butchering Big Game
Great site with step by step instructions and photos showing how to field dress big animals.

Flight From The City
Flight From The City: An Experiment In Creative Living On The Land. An on-line book by a man who left the city for a small homestead in the 1920s.

For safety sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly
Home storage of fuel is a necessity for homesteaders. Even if you are still on the grid, your truck, tractor, standby generator, etc. will still require fuel. I intend to offer appropriate methods of storage for LP gas, gasoline, diesel fuel, and kerosene. I will also offer some tips on safe fuel handling.

Home Processing of Poultry
University of Minnesota’s Home Processing of Poultry is well organized and detailed. Plenty of pictures and step by step processes.

Homestead.org
Contains an entire resource directory of information on homesteading and many other related topics.

Homesteading Neophyte
Blog that follows the experiences of a Urban girl gone Homesteading

The Modern Homestead
It started as a dream for MOST of us, so don’t feel bad if that’s the stage you are in, just come aboard and learn and share what you can!

Path to Freedom
Surrounded by urban sprawl and just a short distance from a freeway, the Dervaes Family have steadily worked at transforming this ordinary city lot into an organic and sustainable micro-farm.

Rural Energy Enterprises
Great selection of non-electric heating products.

Rural Survival
It is obvious that we need water, food and energy to live day to day but those things we take for granted may become problematic if not given thought to their management, possible alternatives and acted upon to be prepared.

Self-Sufficiency in Style
SELF-SUFFICIENCY NEED NOT BE ALL CRANKINESS AND MUD, MANURE, MUCK AND MYSTERY It may be a return to a frontier spirit for an American, or a yearning for a lost rural idyll for an Englishman. Whatever the motivation, it has a long and honourable place in many cultures, and need not be associated with extreme or weird political views, poverty or deprivation. A love of personal freedom is always present. Is that such a terrible thing? There are over 160 pages of advice, help and relevant stories here.

Slaughtering and Butchering
Fall is butchering time, a period of joy in the harvest of the year?s work and of sadness that the lives of your beautiful, healthy animals have come to an end. On this occasion the animals should be treated with the same kindness and respect with which they were treated during their lives. Good farmers raise their animals free from fear, anxiety and stress. The animals should meet their end as they lived, without the terror of the slaughterhouse.

Solar Haven
Lots of great info. Great resource on energy independence.

The Manual for the Home and Farm Production of Alcohol Fuel
Free yourself from the pumps?

Vintage Projects
Our goal is to preserve the inspired DIY spirit of the past. Our free project reprints cover farm machines, the woodshop, machine shop, boats, archery and more. These vintage plans come from a half-century ago when do-it-yourself enthusiasts turned wood, metal and old motors into useful workhorses, functional tools, and toys.

Survival Related Links

Rogue Turtle
We provide information on survivalism, camping, food storage, cooking and grilling, and self reliance. Our goal is to ensure you are prepared for natural and man-made disasters, before, during and after they occur.

savvysurvivor.com
The mission of this site is to act as a fixed resource for people interested in survivalism. We aim for a broad and international audience in the spirit of the free thinkers that established the United States of America as a beacon of liberty in what was (and in many places is) a world darkened by tyranny. We are, however, not espousing the frequently xenophobic narrowly focused platform commonly associated with the far right political movements in the U.S.

Survivalblog
The daily web log for prepared individuals living in uncertain times.

Terrorist Cells in the US
A map showing the locations of terrorist cells operating in the U.S.

The Prepared
Good selection of information on survival.

Urban Survival Tools
Urban Survival Tools offers a complete line of survival and emergency kits and supplies. We offer kits for 1 person or 1000 people. Here is some information on How to Choose a Survival Kit. Urban Survival Tools is just one of two companies that is certified to sell survival kits and disaster preparedness supplies to the federal government. We have a GSA Contract that allows most government entities to purchase supplies from us at discount prices.

Rothstein Associates Inc.
The Rothstein Catalog On Disaster Recovery: 1,000+ books, software tool, videos and reports, since 1989. The Rothstein Catalog on Service Level Books addresses Service Level Agreements.