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Common Sense Preparedness: Building Resilience for Uncertain Times
Discover essential, hype-free steps to become more resilient for everyday living and common emergencies. Whether you are...
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Discover essential, hype-free steps to become more resilient for everyday living and common emergencies. Whether you are buying land and embarking on creating a homestead or living in an urban setting, Common Sense Preparedness will help you understand the basics of self-sufficiency. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of homesteading and preparedness, combining the best of old and new skills and modern technology. From growing your own food and medicine, to food storage and preservation, to planning for emergencies and more, you can feel confident facing common challenges such as natural disasters, rising food prices, and supply chain disruptions. Preparedness is more than survival--it's about freedom, responsibility, and resilience. It's not stockpiling for the end of the world, but instead building a life that's steady in a world that's not. Laurie Neverman of Common Sense Home shares her experiences, insight, and tips and tricks from her family's homestead so that you can create a life of abundance wherever you live. Chapters cover:
Author: Laurie Neverman
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 09/15/2026
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 7.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781493092079
About the Author
Laurie Neverman is the creator of Common Sense Home (formerly Common Sense Homesteading). She was raised on a small dairy farm in northwest Wisconsin and worked in the family catering business as her summer job through high school and college. She has a BS in math/physics and an MS in mechanical engineering with an emphasis in renewable energy. Before coming home to raise her family, she operated the world's largest solar water heating system. Her gardening adventures include companion planting, wildcrafting (using weeds for food and medicine), vertical gardening, herbalism and permaculture. She hasn't found a wild edible she wouldn't try (including quackgrass wine) and grows over a hundred varieties of fruit, vegetables, herbs, and flowers in her garden each year. She lives with her husband and two sons on their homestead in northeast Wisconsin. Visit her online at commonsensehome.com.
- Gardening and permaculture basics
- Food preservation and building a deep pantry
- Wildcrafting and foraging for food and medicine
- Collecting, storing, and purifying water
- Maintaining a disaster-resistant home
- Emergency hygiene, first aid, and waste disposal
- Developing a prepared state of mind
- And more!
Author: Laurie Neverman
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 09/15/2026
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 7.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781493092079
About the Author
Laurie Neverman is the creator of Common Sense Home (formerly Common Sense Homesteading). She was raised on a small dairy farm in northwest Wisconsin and worked in the family catering business as her summer job through high school and college. She has a BS in math/physics and an MS in mechanical engineering with an emphasis in renewable energy. Before coming home to raise her family, she operated the world's largest solar water heating system. Her gardening adventures include companion planting, wildcrafting (using weeds for food and medicine), vertical gardening, herbalism and permaculture. She hasn't found a wild edible she wouldn't try (including quackgrass wine) and grows over a hundred varieties of fruit, vegetables, herbs, and flowers in her garden each year. She lives with her husband and two sons on their homestead in northeast Wisconsin. Visit her online at commonsensehome.com.
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