The Rugged Life. The Modern Guide to Self-Reliance

Clint Emerson is the go-to expert for surviving the first minutes, hours, and days of a crisis. Now, in The Rugged Life, he works with modern homesteading experts to show you how to thrive over the long-term - for months, years, or even a lifetime - by being sell-sufficient. You can live the Rugged Life completely off the grid by farming your own food and using the waste from your toilet for compost.
Or you can live it by adding solar panels to your suburban home and keeping chickens and bees in your backyard. You can even live the Rugged Life in a city by simply gathering the salad for tonight's dinner from your windowsill garden. This innovative guide leaves it up to you to choose how much you want to take on. With hundreds of step-by-step, illustrated, self-sustaining skills and projects, The Rugged Life is for everyone who feels they can use more adventure, freedom, and choice in their life - everyone ready to get out of their comfort zone and try new, difficult, profoundly rewarding things.
Each of the pioneering skills stands on its own, and taken together, they can help you design the independent life you want for yourself and your family.