Permaculture expert and popular YouTube Homesteader Justin Rhodes shares the skills and the delights of becoming a part of your own food story in this inspiring and accessible and beautiful four-color invitation to a more abundant, healthy, and connected life. Have you ever wanted to experiment with growing your own food but didn’t think you had the space, the time, or the knowledge? Justin Rhodes thought the same thing - until after years battling systemic illness and struggling to provide the kind of wholesome food he wanted for his family, he bought a seed packet at the grocery store and was hooked! Justin discovered the miraculous potential and empowerment of working with nature to grow food for his family, and since that discovery, he has shared his self-taught skills with hundreds of thousands of growers via his popular YouTube channel and website. Whether you're looking for greater food security, better health, tastier food, to save or earn money, or to connect with your food source, this book is for you. If you're looking for a different kind of life - a life focused on health and wellness - take a look down the road less traveled. Looking for every opportunity to pass his hard-earned knowledge onto others, Justin Rhodes created this inspiring and practical invitation to growing your own food and experiencing a more connected, sustainable lifestyle, no matter where you live or how much space you have. Filled with beautiful and inspiring photographs from the Rhodes’ homestead and chock-full of resources, including gardening plans, everything you need to know about raising chickens, tips for how to get your kids involved, and even recipes for how to serve up your home-grown goodness, The Rooted Life provides you with the inspiration, the encouragement, and the practical wisdom that you need to begin the journey to a more rooted life. 208 Pages Audio Book and Kindle Version Available for Purchase HERE

Digital Files of plans are emailed immediately. Physical Book will be mailed. Over the last few years, homesteading has EXPLODED! Food Insecurity and rising costs have put fuel on the food-growing fire. Whether it’s a basil plant in the window sill or chucking it all to move to the country, FOOD has become DIY. Countless have followed the spirit of Lucas Nelson and they’ve turned off the news and built a garden... or tended a chicken (or both). The Problem There’s a lack of reasonable infrastructure to host said endeavors. A quick look online for chicken coops for example, and all you’ll find is something MEGA large, expensive, stationary, and things that require the user to clean out its evil chicken poo<<< Gross! Which is something I don’t have to do anymore, save a few exceptional cases. Over ten years ago, when I set out on my own crazy chicken lady adventures I wondered... could I just build something practical, mobile, affordable, uncomplicated to build, AND easy to use? Inspired by Elliot Coleman’s concept of a chickshaw (a chicken coop designed like an Asian rickshaw), I set out to build the ultimate (mobile) chicken coop. Welp, I succeeded... Developing Plans And now, we’re living the dream life with over a dozen homestead builds sitting at the core of our food-growing success. I’ve improved the ChickShaw along with dozens of other designs and tens of thousands of people have downloaded them online at AbundantPermaculture.com My online plans are free but have sadly become outdated. Folks can get by, but we’ve made so many improvements over the years we’ve perfected our designs... Our structures are now easier to build, easier to use, and maximize abundance while minimizing input and you might even say they are more aesthetic (well, I know the PrettyShaw is ;) Finally, a BOOK to share my Designs After getting requests day after day for updated plans, I’ve finally gotten to the point where we can release something legit. Like a book! For one, I wanted to test out my prototypes. And secondly, I’m not a carpenter per se, and I’m definitely not an engineer or a graphic designer. So, I’ve partnered with Chris Slattery of Polyface Designs fame and enlisted a graphic designer from my team to put together a legit book with step-by-step actions on how to build the ultimate homestead structures. Your NEW Core Let these builds rest at the core of what you do with your chickens and gardens and these practical (no frills) solutions will allow for max efficiency with less input. Since homesteading is so much work, you might as well enjoy sensible and easy-to-use infrastructure. These structures can literally be the difference between homestead misery and pleasure. More than Just Structures These aren’t just the foundational structures of your chicken and garden operations, they are strategic tools for making your work easier. The raised garden beds mean more control over your growing medium, and because they’re elevated, you won’t have to crouch or bend over as much. Furthermore, ALL the chicken builds are designed with work in mind. Each and every build will take full advantage of chicken power and you’ll soon be sitting back and watching your chickens fertilize, till, and aerate your gardens, yards/pastures, and compost piles. Simple to build The finished product is simple, minimalistic and takes advantage of readily available hardware and supplies. As for the building process, you’re guaranteed to enjoy our crisp and colorful step-by-step plans that anyone can follow. Dare I say they resemble the ease and simplicity of a Lego manuel. Yeh, they’re that easy. Practical designs No bells or whistles here. You’ll find just what you need for your chickens and garden structures with nothing more. Think multi-purpose everything. For example, the handle becomes the roof prop, underneath the coop is their daytime shade, and the floor is also their perches. Easy to use Because I have kids (and a wife) who help out on the homestead it was important to me that each design be built in such a way that any one person can do it. Raised beds

SHIPS FREE US ORDERS ONLYBy: Joel Salatin, 2021 Foreword by Justin Rhodes ISBN-10: 1733686622 The homesteader tsunami sweeping the nation is wonderful, but new self-reliant folks need a guidebook for livestock. Taking his family’s lifetime experience with pastured livestock, portable infrastructure, soil fertility, water system design and much more, in his practical and humorous style Joel Salatin miniaturizes the principles and potentials for small scale production. From small acreages to urban apartments, he coaches you to livestock success. 400 pages

Joel Salatin, 1998 ASIN: B0876JT73S For all the wannabes and newbies, this book is subtitled: "The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farming Enterprise." A veritable compendium of information, Joel pulls from his eclectic sphere of knowledge, combines it with a half century of farming experience, and covers as many topics as he can think of that will affect the success of a farming venture. He offers his 10 best picks for profitable ventures, and the 10 worst. He covers insurance, record keeping, land acquisition, and equipment. Some people have suggested the title should just be "You Can," meaning that really the book is about succeeding in life. A hard hitting, practical view from a successful farmer, if this book scares you off, it will be the best reality check you ever spent. 480 pp.

SHIPS FREE US Orders Only BY JOEL SALATIN & CHRIS SLATTERY Foreword by: Justin Rhodes RELEASE DATE: October 14, 2020 568 Pages in Full Color. ISBN-10: 1733686614 Have you wondered how to build the Polyface broiler shelter, or the dolly to move it, or an Eggmobile, Gobbledygo or Shademobile? For folks getting started, folks adding enterprises, or folks wanting a cheaper bootstrap way to build portable livestock infrastructure, POLYFACE DESIGNS has all the diagrams and do-it-yourself building specifications. Joel Salatin wrote the text and Polyface former apprentice and engineer extraordinaire Chris Slattery did the drawings. Ultimately practical, the book includes how to build a corral, a home-made head gate and even how to select the right axle for your project. Square footage requirements for the deep bedding hay shed and area advice for pig pastures make this the definitive repository for a lifetime of Polyface experimentation. A massive volume, its 568 pages are in full color and beautiful enough to be a coffee table book even though you’ll use it in your shop. Don’t let the cover price scare you; one building tip can more than save the price of the book.

Enjoy the Rhodes' TWO year adventure of growing bacon and discovering ALL the different ways to put pigs to work on the farm. Laugh and learn as you watch the Rhodes family receive pigs for the first time and find ways to use pigs in the garden, build compost piles and help turn forest into beautiful silvopasture.