Health and Protection

There is a good chance you will be living a good distance away from emergency services. For this reason, make sure you are trained in advanced First Aid and have an emergency medical kit that is designed to go beyond just treating booboos. This kit should have everything you need to care for basic injuries and dental emergencies. Keep a good informational book on hand. You should also train yourself in the application of naturopathic medicine. Grow a medicinal garden and be sure you know how to make poultices, tinctures, and other natural medicines.
Finally, be sure you consider security on your homestead. You want to be sure you have good visibility, controlled access, and guns and ammunition that you are trained to use. Protecting what you have worked so hard to build for you and your family only makes sense, but that protection should also extend to natural disasters. Depending on where you are located, you might have to contend with wild fires, tornadoes, or flash floods. There are steps you can take to protect your home against these types of natural disasters and other threats to your home and here are some books that can help:

• Confessions Of A Prepper: How To Secure Your Home, Protect Your Family, And Survive Any Disaster
• Hunkering Down: Prepping to Survive in Your Home During a Natural Disaster (The NEW Survival Prepper Guides Book 1

Most importantly, have fun researching, designing, and building your homestead. Living off the land will come with its stresses. It will mean you are doing manual physical labor every day and there will always be something to do/fix, but it will also be incredibly rewarding. But even if you live in the city, you can still live off the land. If you have yard space, then start a garden. If you live in an apartment, then get a community garden or find some land outside the city, perhaps rent it from a local farmer, and bring your produce home. Regardless of how you choose to live off the land, stick with it and you will enjoy a wonderful source of food, water, and safety for many years to come.