The rugged life : the modern guide to self-reliance / Clint Emerson, Navy SEAL, Ret. ; illustrations by David Regone.
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 prepared and self-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. Each of these homesteading and prepper long-term survival skills stand on their own, and taken together, they can help you design the independent life you want for yourself and your family.
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- ISBN: 9780593235195
- ISBN: 0593235193
- Physical Description: 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition: First Edition.
- Publisher: New York : Rodale Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
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General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Who is the rugged life for? -- Be your own builder -- Be your own power grid -- Be your own farmer -- Be your own butcher -- Be your own hunter -- Be your own homemaker -- Be your own protector -- Be your own RTO -- Be your own first responder -- Be your own handyman -- Afterword: Be your own homesteader. |
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The Rugged Life : The Modern Guide to Self-Reliance: a Survival Guide
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The Rugged Life : The Modern Guide to Self-Reliance: a Survival Guide
A modern guide to self-sufficiency, homesteading, and building an independent life, from New York Times bestselling author, retired Navy SEAL, and survival skills expert Clint Emerson. Clint Emerson is the go-to-expert for surviving the first minutes, hours, and days of a crisis. Now, in The Rugged Life, he moves beyond mere survival to explain how to thrive over the long-term-for months, years, or even a lifetime, by being self-reliant. And it starts with learning how to be a modern homesteader. Modern homesteading applies purposeful living and pioneering knowhow (efficient home building, gardening, raising animals, hunting, being handy, situational awareness) to the challenges of today. It's about pushing yourself a little (or a lot). Whether you decide to farm your own food and use waste from your toilet for compost, or retro-fit your home with solar and keep a chicken coop in the backyard or simply grow the salad for your dinner from your windowsill garden in a city, it's up to you. You can homestead and a live a rugged life in a suburb or in the middle of your twenty-acre sanctuary. It's all on the same spectrum. With hundreds of step-by-step illustrated pioneering skills and projects, The Rugged Life is for everyone who feels they can use more adventure, freedom, and choice in their lives and is ready to get out of their comfort zone and try new, hard things. Taking on the Rugged Life means thinking about how you want to live and what you want for your family-and then being curious, confident, and committed enough to take on whatever is thrown at you.