The SHTF Homestead by Dan F. Sullivan sales page, captured 2026-09-23
SHTF Homestead by Dan F. Sullivan review
Growing, raising and preserving your own food so a crisis doesn't empty your pantry
By the RJ Editorial Team. Sales page checked 2026-09-23. Last updated 2026-09-23.
Is it worth it?
You've seen the price of a year's worth of emergency buckets, and something about it doesn't sit right. A big one off spend on food you hope you never eat, that expires anyway, and when it's gone it's gone. Meanwhile your grocery bill keeps climbing. So you start wondering whether growing and preserving your own would be more sensible, and whether you could actually pull it off. That's the itch this one scratches. It's a written guide pulled together from six people who homestead for real, on land from a 22 acre farm in Vermont to 56 acres in Ohio, covering gardening, livestock, water collection, and making staples like bread, cheese and pemmican from scratch. The useful part is the range. You get cold climate chicken keeping next to preserving next to home remedies, so you can see the whole shape of it before committing to any of it. Be clear about what it isn't. Sullivan's pitch is that you'll stockpile for free and cut loose from the grocery store, and that's the seller talking. Seed, feed, fencing and tools cost money, and a productive garden takes a couple of seasons of failures first. No guide changes that. Read it as a broad orientation and a list of skills to start practising, one at a time, and it earns its keep. Expect a plan that feeds you next winter and you'll be disappointed.
Pros
- Written by people who homestead on their own land
- Covers cold, short season climates, not just easy ones
- One off digital purchase, nothing recurring
- Broad enough to show you where to start
Cons
- Page never says the page count, format or price
- Much of the same material is free on the writers' blog
- Nothing here is quick, the payoff is seasons away, not weeks
What you get
A digital guide assembled from six writers at Sullivan's survival site, each covering what they actually do on their own land: livestock on a 56 acre Ohio farm, chickens and bees in a Vermont winter, gardening and home remedies, plus survival staples like hardtack and pemmican. Food growing, water collection, preserving and from scratch cooking. You download it and read or print it.
Before you buy
- Check the refund window and the exact price on the order page before paying
- Be honest about the space you have, a balcony and 20 acres are very different books
- Read a few free articles by these writers first to see if the style works for you
Who it suits
Preppers and would be homesteaders with some outdoor space who want a broad starting point, not a step by step plan
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