Hunter Ashford
Preparedness 路 Homesteading 路 Self-Reliance

Skills, not gadgets

Four guides for running a household that keeps working when the grid, the store, or the weather doesn't.

Hunter Ashford has spent more than thirty years doing this work by hand. He grew up on the edge of the Appalachian foothills, with a grandfather who treated a hard winter as a problem to solve and a grandmother who taught him to put the harvest by. What he learned is what's in the books, written down plainly.

The Books

Two series, both on Amazon

The Hunter Ashford Preparedness Library covers the systems that carry a household through a crisis. The Self-Reliant Provider covers the everyday skills that keep a pantry full.

The Off-Grid Survival Manual, book cover
Preparedness Library

The Off-Grid Survival Manual

Twenty-two builds for water, power, food, shelter, security and emergency. Each one has a diagram, a real materials list, and an honest call on whether it's worth your weekend.

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The Amish Survival Guide, book cover
Preparedness Library

The Amish Survival Guide

An outsider's honest look at the Amish practices that still work. Light and heat without the grid, food that keeps without a freezer, hand tools worth owning, and the mutual-aid model underneath all of it.

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The Complete Guide to Home Canning and Preserving, book cover
The Self-Reliant Provider

The Complete Guide to Home Canning & Preserving

Water-bath and pressure canning, fermenting, dehydrating and root cellaring, taught from zero. Every process follows a current method from a named source, and every recipe states its own.

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The Self-Reliant Provider

The Survival Foraging Field Guide

Fifty-plus edible wild plants, beginner-friendly mushrooms and wild medicinal herbs, in color. The dangerous look-alikes get the clearest pages in the book, shown beside the detail that tells them apart.

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Why these books exist

Hunter Ashford writes the guides he wishes he'd had.

He isn't a scientist or a specialist. He's a man who's done the work with his hands, got plenty of it wrong before he got it right, and wrote down what finally worked.

Each one is built to be used, not admired. Diagrams you can work from. Materials lists with real sizes and ratings. A plain answer on what a project costs, what it takes, and where the danger sits. Where a job needs a licensed pro, the book says so, and it'll tell you when to call one.

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