The Have-More Plan is a book that was published, in the post-WWII era, about homesteading. Somebody once showed me the book from pages of early issues of the Mother Earth News published back in the early 1970s - Mother Earth had serialized the Have More Plan because it made sense and had lots and lots of the kind of useful country-living info that doesn't change much (or at all) over the generations. It's about a well-integrated homestead that is more than a thrown-together collection of experiments.
The book is by Ed and Carolyn Robinson. It's subtitle is: A Little Land - A Lot of Living. You can buy it in a currently published edition (Storey Publishing) for $9.95(US) $13.95(CAN) I give a link below that offers it as a free download (though I have no idea how well the illustrations come out, etc).
The publisher describes it in this way:
"This 50-year-old back-to-the-land classic shows how to find land, build a homestead, grow vegetables and fruits, raise livestock, build farm structures, and more."It's a well-thought out, good-sense little book that is based on real-world experience.
Apparently you can download it for free from
http://www.scribd.com/doc/8220882/The-HaveMore-Plan-Country-Living-
