Camp loom, for making mats and mattresses from the 1911 edition of the Boy Scout Handbook

Through a circuitous bit of aimless interweb searching I came across a huge list of downloadable urban homesteading/gardening/survivalist manuals on a site called hardcorepreppers.com. Unfortunately, this site is so popular that it seems to be down every time I’ve checked. But thanks to Google’s caching feature I was able to access a list of those documents. Here’s a curated set of just a few of those links (through the letter “f”) that I found interesting. I can’t vouch for the reliability of any of this information but at least it’s entertaining. And if you have any other favorite free e-book sources please leave a link in the comments. At some point I’ll direct the Root Simple staff to add these and more to our resource page.

Food and Gardening

Bulk Sprouter

Bread Without an Oven

Building Soils for Better Crops

Colorado State University–Drying Vegetables

Collecting, Cutting and Handling Potato Seed

Everything Under The Sun: Food Storage for the Solar Oven

Medicine

Making Chinese Herbal Formulas Into Alcohol Extracts

The Ayurveda Encyclopedia Natural Secrets to Healing Prevention and Longevity

How to Make Cannabis Foods and Medicines

The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees

Energy

Biogas

Biomass Stoves

Build your own Rocket Stove

Camp Stoves and Fireplaces

Transportation

Bicycle Know How

Zombie Apocalypse Skills (or “ZAS” since everything associated with the zombie apocalypse needs an acronym)

50 Emergency Uses for Your Camera Phone

Map Reading and Land Navigation

Boy Scouts Handbook 1911 Edition

Bug out Bag

5 Ways to Win a Fight

Guerilla Warfare by Che Guevara

Cold Weather Survival

Field Expedient Direction Finding