Every honest way to make power and water, build shelter, keep warm, grow and take food, handle waste, work with your hands, and keep your people safe: far from the grid, close to the land.
Every honest way to generate electricity on a homestead, store it, and wire it safely.
A dozen ways to harvest water, how to make it safe, and where to keep it. Water is survival.
Every way to build a roof over your head, from stick-framed cabin to earth and log walls, plus foundations, roofs, and cellars.
Warming your home, cooking your food, heating your water off the grid, and putting up the firewood that feeds it all.
Growing it so it never stops, raising it, taking it from the wild, and putting it up so one summer feeds you through winter.
Every honest way to handle human waste, greywater, and garbage off the grid: cleanly, legally, and without a sewer.
The deep skills: fire, metal, light, soap, cordage, and the bench you do it all on. Make and mend instead of buy and replace.
Hunting, trapping, fishing, and foraging for the table: cleanly, legally, humanely. Know your licenses and seasons; waste nothing.
Lawful, non-lethal security: see trouble coming, slow it down, keep your people and supplies safe, and stay in contact.
Recipes: make every cheese (incl. the family brick and shelf-stable army brick), jerky and pemmican, canned pork, beef and corned beef, staples and hardtack, the dissolve-in-hot-water energy ball, the old army rations, and a world tour of national field rations.
Native North American wild food and craft: parched corn and the ash trick, acorns, cattail, eating the inner-bark cambium, tapping birch and maple for water, pine-needle tea, wild berries and the dangerous lookalikes, fish weirs, and smoke-drying.
The 101 on each trade the book needs: carpentry, masonry and earth, blacksmithing, welding, mechanics, off-grid electrical, plumbing, fiber and textile, and leather and hide. Learn these and you can build and mend it all.
Being far from help means being your own first responder. Build with what the land gives you, and never lean on a single source.