The Self-Reliance Manifesto: More Than 300 Resources to Guide You on the Path to Radical Freedom - Freedom Outpost . Every day, I learn something new that puts me one step closer to the personal liberty I crave. I have personally read the work of every single author and blogger on this list, and I am positive that every person who reads this post can find something to learn that will put them on the path toward real freedom. Getting Started Become More Self-Reliant – Start Here The Encyclopedia of Country Living Finding the Perfect Land for Your Homestead Start Homesteading Today with Little or No Money with These Hacks The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It Off-grid Living, Homesteading, Preparedness, Survival – It’s Our Lifestyle! 5 Reasons You Need a Homesteading Mentor You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise How to Finance a Homestead Secrets to Building a Debt-Free Homestead Where to Find Free Land for Homesteading Ten Acres Enough: The Classic 1864 Guide to Independent Farming Lessons in Farming with Limited Space Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Garden Rebels: 10 Ways to Sow Revolution in Your Backyard General Homesteading Information A Guide to Homestead Predator Control Setting Up a Low-Budget Water Catchment System Which Type of Hay Bale Should You Choose? Feeding from a Round Hay Bale The Encyclopedia of Country Living Essential Homesteading Tools From Kitchen To Field 25 PVC Pipe Projects for the Homestead The Backyard Homestead The Woodland Homestead Build a Sturdy Free-standing House with Sandbags Injury Prevention on the Homestead Butchering Poultry, Rabbit, Lamb, Goat, and Pork: The Comprehensive Photographic Guide to Humane Slaughtering and Butchering Chickens Chicken Terms for Beginners 15 Chicken-Keeping Mistakes Naturally Raising A Sustainable Flock: How to Raise Homestead Chickens For Meat And Eggs Chickens from Scratch: Raising Your Own Chickens from Hatch to Egg Laying and Beyond How Much Do Chickens Cost to Keep? DIY Poultry Electrolytes Chicken Coop Necessities How to Build an Inexpensive Chicken Tractor Trimming Flight Feathers 8 Ways to Save Mega Bucks on Chicken Feed Bird Flu Busters – 5 Strategies for a Healthier Flock 10 Abnormal Chicken Eggs and What You Need to Know About Them Chicken Hot Topics: Controversial Husbandry Practices Are My Chickens Molting? How to Butcher a Chicken Ducks, Geese, Quail, and Turkeys Guide to a Mixed Flock Why Ducks May Not Be For You Best Tips for Raising Ducks How to Raise Baby Ducklings How to Raise Ducks for Eggs Best Tips for Raising Ducks Your Guide to Duck Molting Raising Quail is for Every Homestead How to Build a Quail Hutch for Little or No Money How to Raise Coturnix Quail How to Butcher Turkeys Homestead Geese – Easy to Care for Barnyard Protectors and Weed Eaters Rabbits The Top 10 Meat Rabbit Breeds Homestead Rabbits – Getting Started and Finding the Right Breed What breed of Angora rabbit is right for you? How much does it cost to raise Angora rabbits? Small Scale Rabbit Keeping The Complete Guide to Raising Rabbits Colony-Raising Rabbits 101 Choosing Good Breeding Stock for Meat Rabbits Breeding Meat Rabbits 101 Expert Advice for Breeding Rabbits Raising Kits to Harvest How to Resuscitate Baby Bunnies Growing a Rabbit Garden Pigs 12 Tips for Raising Pigs for Meat 7 Tips for the Novice Pig Farmer How to Butcher a Pig at Home Goats Getting Started with Homestead Goats The Ultimate Guide to Goat Breeds 5 Best Dairy Goat Breeds for the Small Farm Goats for Sale – 6 Mistakes to Avoid When Buying Goats Buying Your First Nigerian Dwarf Goat Nigerian Dwarf Goats 101: Background & Basics – What To Know & Understand Before Committing To Nigerian Dwarf Goats Keeping Homestead Dairy Goats Goat Starter List Goat Care and Maintenance The Pros and Cons of Owning Goat Herdsires Goat Herd Hierarchy: The Herd Queen All You Need to Know about Breeding Goats Goat Pregnancy Care Goat Kidding Supply List Basic Goat Care After Kidding How to Bottle Feed a Goat Homemade Udder Balm How to Hand Milk a Cow or Goat Pros and Cons of Disbudding Your Goat 5 Deadly Diseases That Can Infect Goats Goat Health Record Forms (Free Download) Cows The Pros and Cons of Raising Grass-Fed Beef 8 Things To Have Before You Get A Milk Cow The Best Time to Buy and Sell Cows 3 Simple Rules for Raising Healthy Bottle Calves Tips For Halter Breaking Calves Once-a-Day Milking 3 Ways to Prevent Mastitis in Cows How to Naturally Treat Mastitis in the Family Milk Cow Winter Care for the Family Milk Cow Bees 7 Important Questions to Ask Before You Get Bees Getting Started Beekeeping Beginning Beekeeping: Getting Started with Equipment Beekeeping on a Budget Blooms for Bees Hiving a Honey Bee Swarm Beekeeping 101: Hive Inspection Winter Beekeeping: Maintenance for Healthy Hives Gardening New to Gardening – Start Here – 10 Tips for Beginning Gardeners Vegetable Gardening 101 Beginners Guide to Square Foot Gardening 11 Reasons Why You Should Grow a Container Garden How to Create a New Garden Bed Create an Instant Garden with Sheet Mulching (Lasagna Gardening) Raised Bed Gardening 101 How to Build Raised Beds from Cedar Fencing Vertical Vegetable Gardening Getting Started Herb Gardening Planning and Planting a Medicinal Herb Garden 11 Useful Herbs You Can Grow in Containers How to Grow a Survival Garden (and what to do if it dies) 15 Fruits and Vegetables You Can Grow in Buckets 9 Crops to Grow for Food Storage Crisis Gardening: 30 Veggies You Can Grow in 52 Days or Less 13 Quick and Hardy Plants for Your Spring Garden How to Make Homemade Paper Pots Seed Starting Simplified 5 Tips for Dealing with Volunteer Plants Replace Your Lawn with Food Production Gardening Like a Ninja: A Guide to Sneaking Delicious Edibles into Your Landscape Four Permaculture Principles Every Gardener Should Embrace 15 Fruits and Veggies You Can Regrow from Scraps DIY Seed Vault: Save Seeds for 10 Years How to Save Garden Seed Why Saving Seeds Makes Cents How to Save and Store Heirloom Garden Seeds Seed Saving 101 Saving Tomato Seeds The Seed Revolution: How to Save Seeds Free or Cheap Ways to Get Seeds Soil Building and Composting How to Test for Healthy Soil The Art of Gardening: Building Your Soil Using Mulch in the Garden Amending Your Soil Naturally 7 Ways to Improve Soil Quality How to Soften Soil Compaction How to Compost 80+ Items You Can Compost Black Gold: Creating Perfect Compost with Kitchen, Yard and Garden Scraps Getting Started Vermicomposting – Raising Worms DIY Vermicomposting The Humanure Handbook Orchards Selecting Fruit Trees for your Homestead Fruit And Nut Tree Consideration For Beginners Planting an Orchard with Dwarf Fruit Trees Planting fruit trees Setting Down Roots: How to Plant Apple Trees How to Grow Fruit Trees Preparing A Young Orchard For Winter Aquaponics Introduction to Aquaponics Aquaponics: Growing Food with Fish Old-Fashioned Skills A Mind To Homestead – Old-Time Skills & Knowledge For A New Generation How to Make a Rag Quilt Basic Hand Stitches Treadle Sewing Machine Advice A Garden to Dye For: How to Use Plants from the Garden to Create Natural Colors for Fabrics & Fibers How to Dye Yarn with Goldenrod How to Sharpen Razor Blades A Glorified Shaving Horse: How to Build a Paring Ladder in the Woods How to Build a Carving Bench from a Log (Rope Vise Plans Included) No Mess No Fuss DIY Laundry Detergent The Cheapskate’s Guide to Making Cleaning Products That Won’t Kill You How to Hand Mill Soap Make your own soap! Cold process soap making How to Make Soap from Pantry Staples Making Homemade Soap from Ashes Pure Soapmaking Homemade Beauty Essentials 101 Easy Homemade Products for Your Skin, Health & Home: A Nerdy Farm Wife’s All-Natural DIY Projects Using Commonly Found Herbs, Flowers & Other Plants DIY: Make Your Own Biodiesel Fuel Common Sense Home Remedies Book #1: Skin Troubles Common Sense Home Remedies Book #2: Tummy Troubles Prepper’s Natural Medicine: Life-Saving Herbs, Essential Oils and Natural Remedies DIY Simple Salve Ointment Make All-Natural Lotions and Salves Herbal Drawing Oil Recipe Homemade Bug Repellent Balm How to Make Your Own Candle Molds Rendering Beeswax 5 Ways to Make Candles from Household Items How to Make Mead How to Make Hard Cider How to Build a Mousetrap with a 5-gallon bucket DIY Mosquito Trap Off-Grid Living Creating Your Off-Grid Homestead: Radical Inspiration and Practical Advice Why We Chose to Live Off-Grid Grid Down? It’s the Reality at Our House 3 Ways to Start Your Off-Grid Transition 6 Ways to Get Ready for Going Off-Grid Living Off-Grid with Solar Electricity Selecting a Solar Electric System for our Homestead Setting Up a Simple Solar Panel Kit What Solar Can Do on Your Homestead Go Solar with 4 Simple Homesteading Projects How to Recharge Alkaline Batteries How to Stay Warm with Less Heat 10 Ways to Prepare Your Home for Winter Getting Started with Wood Heat – 5 Things You Should Know How to Heat Your Home with a Wood Furnace DIY Biomass Fire Logs Build your own DIY 5-gallon bucket no-ice evap air conditioner The Heat is On: How to Stay Cool without Air Conditioning How to do Your Laundry by Hand Drying Clothes on a Rack 8 Hacks for Cleaning without Running Water DIY Composting Toilet How to Build a Burn Barrel – Burn Trash Safely 50 Ways to Reuse Your Trash Scratch Cooking The Lost Art of Scratch Cooking Recipes and Tips for Sustainable Living A Cabin Full of Food The Made-from-Scratch Life 5 Scratch Cooking Shortcuts for a Better Diet in Less Time 25 Pantry Essentials for Scratch Cooking Cooking With Cast Iron—How And Why To Get Started How to Season Cast Iron Cookware How to Restore Old or Damaged Cast Iron How and Why You Should Make Your Own Bread How to Make Sourdough Starter How to Make Your Own Yeast How to Make Butter in a Jar Online Cheesemaking Workshop How to Make Homemade Soda How to Make Cottage Cheese from Pasteurized Milk How to Make Cottage Cheese and Sour Cream from Raw Milk Off-Grid Kitchen 11 Ways to Cook Off-Grid 7 Ways to Cook without Power Off-Grid Cooking Methods 4 Ways You Can Cook Food Indoors without Power Build a DIY Rocket Stove The 7 Greatest Off-Grid Stoves Outdoor Cooking and Fire Safety Getting Started with Solar Cooking Cooking with Help from the Sun How to Bake without an Oven How to Build an Outdoor Mud Oven 15 Kitchen Gadgets That Work Without Power Fridge-Free Living Living without Refrigeration How to Still Be Chill Without a Refrigerator 14 Foods You Can Stop Refrigerating Food Preservation Getting Started with Home Food Drying Drying and Dehydrating Food Dehydrating Food without Electricity How to Dehydrate Fruit How to Create a Root Cellar for Food Storage Root Cellars 101 Building and Using a Window Well Root Cellar 10 Tips for Storing Vegetables without a Root Cellar A Simple Way to Store Garlic How to Store Potatoes for the Winter The Organic Canner: A Guide to Preserving Real Food How to Pressure Can Food How to Can Food in a Boiling Water Bath The Canning Manifesto How to Make Jam Without Added Pectin Universal Jam Recipe for Whatever Fruit You Have On Hand How to Safely Can Your Own Recipes A Primer on Pickling Smoked Meats and Cheeses Freezing Milk for Longterm Storage How I Preserve Food: Modern Mountain Man MREs How to Preserve Eggs with Water Glass 4 Time-Tested Methods for Preserving Eggs Online Fermentation Workshop How to Make Jun Kombucha Homemade Fermented Sauerkraut A Primer on Lacto-Fermentation Foraging Wild Free Food Foraging Dos and Dont’s 10 Tips for Wildcrafting Herbs Is Harvesting Roadkill Legal in Your State? Foraging Feral Food and Medicinal Plants List of Foraging Articles with Photos for Identification What is Gleaning and How to Do It Backyard Foraging 19 Wild Edibles You Can Find in the City Passing on Self-Reliance Lessons to Kids Involving Young Children in Homesteading Sometimes You Have to Let Kids Struggle with Tasks Letting Go of Perfectionism So Your Kids Can Help Out on the Homestead Gardening with Children Beekeeping with Children Potty-Training with an Outhouse Foraging with Children Foraging for Wild Edibles with Kids 25 Things We Did as Kids That Would Get Someone Arrested Today Create. Produce. Rebel. The biggest insurrection in our society is to be self-sufficient. Make the way you live your life a revolutionary act by producing some of the things that you need. Let me know in the comments how you will rebel against the status quo. What skills and projects you will undertake this year? I want to hear about your self-reliance goals! 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