The Illustrated Amish Survival Guide: Old-Ways Skills for Food Storage, Off-Grid Living & a Self-Reliant Home (Paperback)

When the lights go out, plain living keeps going. Water, warmth, food and neighbors: the quiet, old-ways skills that let plain-living families ride out storms, outages and hard seasons, laid out step by step for any modern household.

The Illustrated Amish Survival Guide is a 190-page, 8.5 × 11 handbook packed with diagrams, flowcharts, charts, quick-reference cards and fill-in logs, so you can start small, one shelf and one skill at a time, and build real self-reliance that lasts.

What's inside

• Water & sanitation: store, treat and ration two weeks of water; wells, hand pumps, rain catchment, gray water and outhouses
• Heat, light & energy: wood heat and firewood math, lamps and lanterns, passive solar, and safe backup power and carbon-monoxide safety
• Garden & field: a planting calendar, crop rotation, seed saving, cold frames, compost and the kitchen herb bed
• Preserving the harvest: tested water-bath and pressure canning, sauerkraut and pickles, drying, smoking and a working root cellar
• The wood-stove kitchen: everyday bread, sourdough, butter and cheese, homemade staples and a three-month rotating pantry
• Animals & hand tools: chickens, cows, goats, sheep, bees and draft horses, plus sharpening, harness repair and natural pest control
• Ready for anything: a home first-aid kit, when to call for help, a family emergency plan, a neighborhood phone tree and winter-storm readiness

Built to use, not just read

• 12 chapters in 5 parts, with a skills checklist at the end of each chapter
• Labeled diagrams: bank barn, root cellar, outhouse siting, passive solar, coop and box hive
• Fill-in logs: water, fuel, seeds, canning, pantry, animal care, tools and a 72-hour kit
• Safety boxes that point you to tested methods, local codes and a professional when it matters

Details: Paperback · 190 illustrated pages · 8.5 × 11 in · black-and-white interior · by Miriam Hartley

Inspired by the traditions of plain living. Not written by or endorsed by any Amish community. Information is general and educational; follow tested guidance and local codes.