Review: Writer Shows Talent but Does Not Show How to Start a Homestead or Sustainable Farm
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 1, 2014
I found this 40 pages to be precisely what I would not like to read. I found the first half simply spent too much time spent discussing myths and falsehoods, or was just plain boring. If I was thinking about starting a small off-the-grid homestead when I bought this, I would have given up the notion by page 15.The second half, though, was better. The recipes looked interesting, but, I'm not sure why those recipes were included in an introductory discussion of homesteading.Honestly, if more introductory texts took this approach to homesteading, gardening, farming or living among nature, I'd probably start learning how to build a nuclear-propelled spaceship and head off to some planet where no man has dared go before.Mind you, the writer is pretty good at writing, so I might try another of his books in the future. I only pray it takes a more positive, helpful approach. At any rate, because he shows such promise as a writer, I have given three stars to Homesteading: Your Guide to Self Sustainability, Growing Food and Getting Off the Grid.