Up Tunket Road : The Education of a Modern

Ever since Thoreau's Walden, the image of the American homesteader has been of someone getting away from civilization. Yet if this were ever true, what is the nature and reality of homesteading in our media-saturated, hyper-connected twenty-first century?

Prologue...But Not Clear-Cut	p. ix
Once Upon a Tunket Time	p. 1
Learning One's Place	p. 18
When Time Was Made of Trees	p. 37
Oikos: A Household Economy and Ecology	p. 53
Looking Forward to Yesterday: Weaving Chronologies for the Future	p. 70
The Simple Life: An Ecological Misnomer	p. 102
Framing a Life	p. 119
Of Scale and Skill: Homestead or Farm?	p. 133
The End of Petrol	p. 143
Plowshares into Swards: Grass Farming	p. 152
The Smallholder as Placeholder	p. 163
Building a Future	p. 181
Crafting a Croft	p. 191
Technological Cascade	p. 213
The Clock, the Wallet, and the Hand	p. 236
Rewired Rewards	p. 250
To Gather Together	p. 263
Epi+log	p. 275
Acknowledgments	p. 277
Endnotes	p. 279
About the Author	p. 285
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Up Tunket Road : The Education of a Modern Homesteader

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