Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Elder)
Roman Farm Management.
E-Book can be found at
http://www.munseys.com
This is how the Romans did it folks, this excellent treatise explains how to run a Roman farm and covers everything!
In a post SHTF scenario there is a lot of information that can be used in this book, as it shows how to farm without any modern power sources.
Highly recomended ( in my humble opinion)
Fortuna favet menti paratae
Excellent find. It is stuff like that that shows us how it was done before power tools came along. I include transport in that.
(17 January 2012, 13:44)Tartar Horde Wrote: [ -> ]Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Elder)
Roman Farm Management.
E-Book can be found at http://www.munseys.com
This is how the Romans did it folks, this excellent treatise explains how to run a Roman farm and covers everything!
In a post SHTF scenario there is a lot of information that can be used in this book, as it shows how to farm without any modern power sources.
Highly recomended ( in my humble opinion)
Fortuna favet menti paratae
cant find the reference to "roman farm management" or cato the elder , can you refine the link??
(17 January 2012, 16:00)bigpaul Wrote: [ -> ] (17 January 2012, 13:44)Tartar Horde Wrote: [ -> ]Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Elder)
Roman Farm Management.
E-Book can be found at http://www.munseys.com
This is how the Romans did it folks, this excellent treatise explains how to run a Roman farm and covers everything!
In a post SHTF scenario there is a lot of information that can be used in this book, as it shows how to farm without any modern power sources.
Highly recomended ( in my humble opinion)
Fortuna favet menti paratae
cant find the reference to "roman farm management" or cato the elder , can you refine the link??
Here ya go mate this should bring page up, click on the title above Cato's name, select an option and download
http://www.munseys.com/detail/mode/author/cato
if it does not work I will sort another source for you
If anyone wants any more classical works let me know i'm only too happy to help
For anyone interested in the tactics that made the Roman Army the best in the ancient world, you might enjoy this
Sextus Julius Frontinus (ca. 40–103 AD)
Strategems
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Ro...ta/1*.html
NOPE TH i can,t get it either ?
How recent can it be and still be defined as "classical"? "The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency" by John Seymour, published in the '70's, is a seminal work.
Thanks Steve just ordered mine....along with many others i have.