Thread Rating:
  • 1 Vote(s) - 4 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Classical Books on Farming/Prepping
17 January 2012, 13:44,
#1
Classical Books on Farming/Prepping
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
Reply
17 January 2012, 14:18,
#2
RE: Classical Books on Farming/Prepping
Excellent find. It is stuff like that that shows us how it was done before power tools came along. I include transport in that.
Skean Dhude
-------------------------------
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. - Charles Darwin
Reply
17 January 2012, 16:00,
#3
RE: Classical Books on Farming/Prepping
(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??
Some people that prefer to be alone arent anti-social they just have no time for drama, stupidity and false people.
Reply
17 January 2012, 16:11, (This post was last modified: 17 January 2012, 16:33 by Tartar Horde.)
#4
RE: Classical Books on Farming/Prepping
(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

Reply
17 January 2012, 18:21,
#5
RE: Classical Books on Farming/Prepping
(17 January 2012, 16:11)Tartar Horde Wrote:
(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
ok, done, thanks.
Some people that prefer to be alone arent anti-social they just have no time for drama, stupidity and false people.
Reply
1 May 2015, 10:45,
#6
RE: Classical Books on Farming/Prepping
This book by Sextus Julius Frontinus: gives an illuminating insight into the Roman War machine, and why they were so successful. Interestingly Frontinus was sent to Britain in 74/75 Ad to subdue the Silures, a tribe in modern Wales
http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsB...ilures.htm

Frontinus was also an engineer of some repute and another book deals with Aqueducts and how to construct them. I hope you find them aninteresting read, enjoyBig Grin

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Ro...ta/1*.html

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Ro...text*.html
Reply
1 May 2015, 12:22,
#7
RE: Classical Books on Farming/Prepping
NOPE TH i can,t get it either ?
Reply
1 May 2015, 23:19,
#8
RE: Classical Books on Farming/Prepping
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.
Find a resilient place and way to live, then sit back and watch a momentous period in history unfold.
Reply
2 May 2015, 07:14, (This post was last modified: 2 May 2015, 07:17 by Steve.)
#9
RE: Classical Books on Farming/Prepping
Also available updated, as "The NEW complete book of SELF-SUFFICIENCY", from Doring Kindersley ISBN 0-7513-6442-8 .

If I could only save one book it would be this one.

You can but for a couple of pounds:

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDe...ortby%3D20
Reply
2 May 2015, 08:18,
#10
RE: Classical Books on Farming/Prepping
Thanks Steve just ordered mine....along with many others i have.
Reply


Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)