The Rugged Life: The Modern Homesteading Guide to Self-Reliance by Clint Emerson

Description: The Rugged Life: The Modern Homesteading Guide to Self-Reliance by Clint Emerson A modern guide to self-sufficiency, homesteading, and creating 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. Its 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, its up to you. You can homestead and a live a rugged life in a suburb or in the middle of your twenty-acre sanctuary. Its 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Clint Emerson is a retired Navy SEAL with twenty years of service with the Special Operations community. He served as a SEAL operator at SEAL Team Three, the NSA, and SEAL Team Six. He is the founder of Escape the Wolf, which focuses on crisis management for global companies both large and small. Hes the bestselling author of the 100 Deadly Skills series. Review "The Rugged Life is not for everyone. But if you think you are up to the challenge of living a more self-sufficient lifestyle, this book is a great place to start."—Bill Rapier, retired Navy SEAL, founder of American Tactical Shooting Instruction, and self-reliance expert "The Rugged Life is essential reading for anyone wanting to get in touch with nature and live a life thats a little more healthy, sustainable, and free. Drawing on his expertise as a retired SEAL, Clint Emerson meets aspiring homesteaders where they are and empowers them to succeed in their particular circumstances, whether that means going completely off the grid or raising a few chickens in the backyard."—Mike Ritland, New York Times bestselling author and host of the Mike Drop podcast"The past two years have reminded us that society is fragile. As citizens it is our responsibility to be as self-reliant as possible. Add The Rugged Life by former Navy SEAL Clint Emerson to your library today and get on the path to independence and self-sufficiency. Its on my shelf. Make sure its on yours!"—Jack Carr, Navy SEAL Sniper and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devils Hand Review Quote "The Rugged Life is not for everyone. But if you think you are up to the challenge of living a more self-sufficient lifestyle, this book is a great place to start." --Bill Rapier, Retired Navy SEAL, Founder of American Tactical Shooting Instruction, and Self Reliance Expert " The Rugged Life is essential reading for anyone wanting to get in touch with nature and live a life thats a little more healthy, sustainable, and free. Drawing on his expertise as a retired SEAL, Clint Emerson meets aspiring homesteaders where they are and empowers them to succeed in their particular circumstances, whether that means going completely off the grid or raising a few chickens in the backyard." --Mike Ritland, New York Times bestselling author and host of the Mike Drop podcast "The past two years have reminded us that society is fragile. As citizens it is our responsibility to be as self-reliant as possible. Add The Rugged Life by former Navy SEAL Clint Emerson to your library today and get on the path to independence and self-sufficiency. Its on my shelf. Make sure its on yours!" --Jack Carr, Navy SEAL Sniper and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devils Hand Excerpt from Book 1 Be Your Own Builder "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." --Henry David Thoreau The first step of modern homesteading is knowing where you want to live and what kind of home you want to live in. If after you read through the questions of other homesteaders and decide that you arent ready to leave the grid, thats fine. You can still retrofit an existing home, spec out a new home, or build a weekend retreat (thats ready for a full move-in) incorporating many self-sufficient and energy-independent principles. Theres still cheap land to be found. You can get farmland in Iowa for less than $4,000 an acre. But you put a house on that land and the price quadruples. And heres the thing: that house is likely to be more than you need. If you want to live off-grid, you dont want a big house. You want something small thatll be easy to keep warm in the wintertime and easy(ish) to keep cool in the summer. The best part about building for yourself, though, is your ability to get creative. Choosing your site to allow you to build with south-facing windows, north-facing hay bales, and an exterior kitchen with a center courtyard? That might be just right. Or you can plant plenty of shade trees and think about sleeping in the basement in the summer. Its entirely what works for you. Of course, "warm" and "cool" are relative terms, and are dependent on your thermal comfort zone. If you cant sleep unless youve got a blanket on you and its a balmy 68 Details ISBN0593235193 Author Clint Emerson Short Title The Rugged Life Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 0593235193 ISBN-13 9780593235195 Format Paperback Imprint Rodale Books Subtitle The Modern Homesteading Guide to Self-Reliance Audience General/Trade Publication Date 2022-05-10 Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2022-05-10 NZ Release Date 2022-05-10 US Release Date 2022-05-10 UK Release Date 2022-05-10 Publisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Pages 272 Illustrations Black and white line drawings Illustrator Gladys Jose Birth 1927 Death 1855 Affiliation Clark University Position journalist Qualifications PsyD DEWEY 640 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:135308956;

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