One of the original, if not the original, publications on self-sufficient living is The Mother Earth News. Been around since 1970. I especially liked it in its beginning, though still lots of good articles and resources on their website as well as today's print version.

If you feel like spending $60, you can get back issues from first thru 2007 on CD here .
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"Things that have never happened before happen all the time." — Scott Sagan, The Limits of Safety