Download this guide for a collection of useful links and resources covering the broad range of sustainable living topics including basic survival first aid, food and self-sufficiency, childcare, tactical survival and more.

First Aid

The Herbal Home Remedy Book by Joyce Wardwell, 1998

AbeBooks

“Making Plant Medicine,” Fourth Edition by Richo Cech,

Strictly Medicinal Seeds

Herbal Antibiotics: Natural Alternatives for Treating Drug-Resistant Bacteria Paperback by Stephen Harrod Buhner, 2012, 2nd ed.

Amazon

Herbal Antivirals: Natural Remedies for Emerging & Resistant Viral Infections by Stephen Harrod Buhner, 2013

Amazon

The Survival Medicine Handbook, 3rd Edition, by Joseph Alton, M.D.

Amazon

*https://www.lostbookofremedies.com/vsl/index.php?hop=fsb00

Some of the best herbs to grow or forage for medicinal purposes are:

• Thyme
• Purple-flowered oregano (origanum vulgare)
• Echinacea angustifolia
• Calendula
• Oats (for depression and adrenal fatigue; a 2-by-4-foot area will grow enough for a family for at least a year)
• Alfalfa
• Comfrey
• Garlic
• Onion
• John’s Wort
• Dandelion
• Plantain
• Burdock
• Nettle
• Violet
• Mallow (wild or marsh),
• Elder (elderberry)
• Purslane
• Plantain
• Tulsi (Indian basil or sacred basil)
• Lemon balm
• Mullein
• Rugosa rose, dog rose, wild rose
• Cayenne (It has to be over 90,000 heat units)
  • Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

Although not cayenne peppers, these would also probably work:

• Fedcoseeds Hot Pepper
• Fedcoseeds Red Habanero

• Strictly Medicinal Seeds:
  • Sida acuta is a broad-spectrum antibiotic
  • Baikal skullcap/Chinese skullcap is a broad-spectrum antiviral
  • Houttuynia/Chameleon plant is another broad-spectrum antiviral
  • Bidens is a broad-spectrum antibiotic
• Isatis/Woad is a broad-spectrum antiviral. Seed available at Pinetree Garden Seeds
• Licorice is a synergistic herb that is used whenever taking the other herbs because it helps them to work more effectively. Licorice is very difficult to grow, and it takes 4 years to get usable roots. But for those who’d like to try it, Strictly Medicinals and Richter’s carry seeds and plants.

To purchase bulk herbs for tincturing or teas

Bulk Herbs

• Pacific Botanicals – Growers & Suppliers of High Quality Certified Organically Grown Herbs & Spices
• Mountain Maus Remedies | Bulk Herbs & Spices
• Mountain Rose Herbs
• Bulk Herbs, Organic Herbs, Spices, Bulk Tea & Essential Oils – Starwest Botanicals (starwest-botanicals.com)
• Herbs (herbies-herbs.com) Monteagle Herbs
• 1st Chinese Herbs – Bulk Herbs, Teas, Spices, Health Supplements

 Food and Self-Sufficiency

 Homesteading Family on YouTube

John McConnel’s blog (ThePeppyPrepper)

Grain Mills

• Diamant Grain Mill, Grain Mills-Lehman’s
• Family Grain Mill Hand Crank Wheat Grinder Flour Mill com

Gardening

Seeds and Plants

• Saint Clare Seeds
• Fedco Seeds
• Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
• Pinetree Garden Seeds
• Nichol’s Garden Nursery
• The Urban Farmer
• Victory Seeds
• Adaptive Seeds
• Baker Creek Seeds
• Seed Treasures

 Resources

• GrowVeg YouTube Video
• Gardening Know How.
• Gardening when It Counts, by Steve Solomon, 2006

Amazon

• The Resilient Gardener, by Carol Deppe, 2010

Chelsea Green Publishing

• Seed to Seed, by Suzanne Ashworth, 2002

Amazon

• Joy of Gardening, Dick Raymond, 1983

Amazon

• Square Foot Gardening, Mel Bartolomew, 2018

Amazon

Tools-All found at easydigging.com

• Easy Digging, I suggest the 6-inch grub hoe rather than the 4-inch
• Easy DiggingItalian Grape Hoe
• Metal files for keeping the tools sharp:

Easy Digging

Cooking, Canning, Dehydrating and Storing

• The bottom-lit updraft stove that can burn twigs, pine needles, pine cones, etc., Silver fire – Review of the stove
• There is another stove called the EcoZoom Versa.Amazon
• https://dontwastethecrumbs.com/
• Bread baked on top of a wood stove – YouTube
• Prepper’s Canning Guide, 2017

Amazon

• Root Cellaring, by Mike and Nancy Bubel, 1991

Amazon or Abebooks.com 

• Ball Blue Book

Ace Hardware

• Growing and Canning Your Own Food, Jackie Clay, 2012

Backwoodshome.com

• Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning, by the gardeners and farmers of Terre Vivante, 2007

Chelsea Green Publishers

• Preserving food through fermentation, Holly Howe

The Website that Takes the Guesswork Out of Fermentation

• To order prepackaged, prepared food or bulk foods:

1. Country Life Natural Foods Serves the Midwest.
2. Emergency Essentials Ships the lower 48 USA.

• 4Patriots Ships throughout the USA and Canada.

What to do if you lose power and have 3 freezers full of meat:

1. Have on hand multiple food-grade 5-gallon buckets with lids, as many as you think you will need and then add extras!
2. Non-iodized salt (Redmond’s Earth Salt, or pickling salt, or any non-iodized food-grade salt that you can buy in 25- to 50-lb bags), more than you think you will need.
3. Brine as much meat as you are able.
4. For detailed directions, see “Back to Basics, How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills”, Readers Digest, 1981, p224
5. If you have any means of cooking such as a propane canning stove (e.g. Simply Canning-Outdoor stove, OR Amazon-Outdoor propane canning stove) pressure-can as much meat as you are able.
6. Build the smoker now and practice using it now. Luckybelly-21 Homemade Smoker Plans
7. Give away any thawed meat that will otherwise go to waste.

Other Methods

1. AskaPrepper -Potting meat-
2.  How to Brine Meat and the Science Behind it (Dry and wet Brining) – YouTube
3.  Historic Food Preservation – Potted Salmon – YouTube
4.  Potted Beef In The 18th Century – YouTube
5.  Preparing Salt Pork – 18th Century Cooking Series S1E5 – YouTub

Child Care

Diapers

Soaker pattern to place over diaper (born to love website)

Lanolin-rich soaker laundry soap

To buy

• Cloth Diaper.com
• Green Mountain Diapers
• Nicki’s Diapers