~ Homesteading Links ~

Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA) (www.attra.org)
The publications section of this website contains a wealth of information for homesteaders.

Back Home Magazine (www.backhomemagazine.com)
Bi-monthly magazine delivers useful do-it-yourself information on sustainable, self-reliant living.

The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) (chla.library.cornell.edu/c/chla/index.html)
A core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science, forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science.

Countryside & Small Stock Journal (www.countrysidemag.com)
Promoting self-reliance and simple lifestyle through home food production, gardening, cooking, food preservation and other homesteading techniques.

Homestead.org Online Homesteading Resource (www.homestead.org)
This website has lots of excellent information of use for the homesteader. Very active forum, advice, chat room, personals, and many great articles.

Mother Earth News (www.motherearthnews.com)
Popular magazine about sustainable, self-reliant living. The website has some great articles online and very informative discussion boards.

Urban Homesteading (www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/urban_homestead)
Go green in the city! This website is a very good resource for those who want to live more self-sufficient and closer to nature while living in urban areas.

~ Agriculture & Gardening ~

Butterbrooke Farm Seed Co-op
They don't have a website, but they offer heirloom and untreated herb, vegetable, and flower seeds by mail. Send a long S.A.S.E. to 78 Barry Road, Oxford, CT 06478-1529 for a free price list.

GardenWeb (www.gardenweb.com)
Excellent resource for gardening information, discussions, seed and plant exchanges, more.

The Organic Vegetable Gardening Guru (members.aol.com/ovgguru/ovgguru.html)
Great guide to organic gardening tips and information.

Vegetable Companion Guide (www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/1306/Garden/companion.html)
A very handy chart for determining which vegetables make good or bad companions in your garden.

~ Livestock & Poultry ~

Breeds of Livestock (www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/)
An extensive listing of beef & diary cattle, goat, horse, sheep and swine breeds including breed histories, photos and Quicktime movies.

Brushy Mountain Bee Farm (www.beeequipment.com)
Great resource for finding all your beekeeping supplies. They even carry very reasonably priced "BeeGinners Kits" which give you everything you need, including a hive, smoker, and outfit. Just add bees and you're ready to go!

Eggbid (www.eggbid.com)
Buy and sell your poultry and equipment online at Eggbid! A great online auction like eBay, except this one is devoted to poultry, dove, peafowl & ratite hatching eggs, chicks, adult birds, and supplies, plus gardening seeds and supplies.

Livestock Alternatives (agalternatives.aers.psu.edu/livestock/Livestock.html)
A database of useful information in PDF format from Penn State.

McKinney & Govero Poultry (www.mckinneypoultry.com)
This hatchery offers many breeds of standard poultry. They breed their own birds and the website offers photos of their own breeding stock. If you're looking for some good show quality birds, this is the place to go!

Murray McMurray Hatchery (www.mcmurrayhatchery.com)
A very popular resource for mail order chicks for over 8 decades is online. Many standard and bantam breed chickens, waterfowl, turkeys, gamebirds, supplies, homesteading supplies, and much, much more. Minimum chick order is 25, and they'll usually include an exotic "mystery chick" with your chick order, too!

National Poultry News (www.nationalpoultrynews.com/)
"The Country Paper Contry Folks Love to Read" - Monthly newspaper dedicated to fancy poultry and livestock. Many great articles on care and breed info, with poultry show information, too. All this AND you get a coupon for "buy two get one free" Purina Poultry Feed in every issue!

Poultry Press (www.poultrypress.com)
This monthly paper is a must-have for poultry enthusiasts. Not only does it have great articles, show information and results, and breeder resources, but you get a coupon for "buy two get one free" Purina Poultry Feed. The savings on feed more than pay for the subscription!

Small Flock Poultry and Exotic Fowl Companion (www.cvm.umn.edu/avian/companion.html)
Useful articles pertaining to raising, housing, breeding, health, and butchering poultry for the small flock owner.

~ Outdoors & Wilderness ~

Tracker Outdoors (www.tracker-outdoors.com)
Your complete resource for improving your knowledge of whitetail deer hunting, turkey hunting, bass fishing, trout fishing, camping adventures, vegetable gardening and raising cattle, horses, pigs, poultry and other livestock.

Sierra Club (www.sierraclub.org)
Join this great grassroots organization devoted to the environment.

~ Family & Homeschool ~

Chickscope 1.5 (chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu)
This is a valuable resource for teaching step by step the development of a chick embryo to hatching. Lots of information and photos.

Homeschooling (www.candlepublishing.co.uk/frigg/homeschooling.htm)
An Asatru homeschooling page at Fellowship of Frigg.

Pagan Homeschooling Page (/www.homestead.com/barbooch/PaganHomeschool.html)
Homeschooling information and resources for Pagan homeschoolers.

~ Crafts & Cooking ~

Eating Out on the Homestead (www.geocities.com/junipercreekfarm/recipes/index_recipes.htm)
Great homecooked meal ideas and family recipes.

The Electronic Neanderthal (www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~alf/en/en.html)
Resource page for traditional woodworking.

Make-Stuff.com (www.make-stuff.com)
For people who like to say they made it themselves!

The Mead Maker's Page (www.solorb.com/gfc/mead/mead.html)
Great page for information and mead recipes.

~ House & Home ~

Decorating Help (www.allthingsfrugal.com/decor.htm)
Home decorating on a budget.

Frugal Moms (www.frugal-moms.com)
Helpful tips and tricks to cut costs and save money.

~ Heathenry Links ~

Asatru-U (www.asatru-u.org)
A great place to learn about our religion through a self-taught course. Mentors are available!

Midhnott Sol Regintroth (midhnottsol.org)
Unbelievable source and wealth of info on Asatru. Grab a cup of coffee before you click here. You'll be here for a while absorbing everything they have. :-)

Web of Life Hall (www.friggasweb.org/webh.html)
This Hall works to care for and protect the natural environment as part of Frigga’s Web of Life. We also aim to nourish our enjoyment of the land, to enrich our relationship with the gods, alfar and landvaettir, revitalizing our connectedness to all living things.

~ Mythology, Folklore & History ~

Germanic Myths, Legends, and Sagas (www.pitt.edu/~dash/mythlinks.html)
A collection of links rom a man named D.L. Ashliman.

The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) (sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/)
A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization. Great source of lore to help you get started.

World of the Vikings (www.pastforward.co.uk/vikings/)
So much of our knowledge of our Gods are tied up with what the Vikings recorded.

Angelcynn (www.angelcynn.org.uk)
A re-enacting group in England for Medieval England. This is about the culture of the heathen and newly Christianized English folk. They shared generally common culture with most of the other Germanic folk. Good place to get a feel for the history of one branch of the Teutons.

Regia Anglorum (www.regia.org/index.html)
Another Medieval England re-enacting group in England, except this has more Viking info than Angelcynn.

Ulfhednar (www.ulfhednar.org)
This impressive group of re-enactors hail from Germany and Poland. The website is rich with awe inspiring photographs.

~ Kindreds & Organizations ~

Asatru Folk Assembly (www.runestone.org)
One of the oldest groups around. Founded by Steve McNallen.

Einauga Kindred (www.angelfire.com/folk/einauga/)
Anglo Saxon Heathenry in Maryland.

Medoburg Kindred (www.medoburg.org)
A great group of folk in Pennsylvania area. See pics of their Hoff!

New Anglia Fellowship (www.newangliafellowship.org)
Anglo Saxon Fellowship in northern New England.

Raven Kindred North (ravennorth.org)
We are long time friends of this Eastern/Central Massachusetts based kindred and Ron was once a member.

The Ring of Troth (thetroth.org)
Has the great book, Our Troth, online at their site.

Two Ravens Kindred (www.tworavenskindred.org)
- Good friends of ours based in Connecticut.

Úlfar aff Jera Þjóð (www.ulfar.org)
- Great, longtime friends just north of us here in New Hampshire.
The Úlfar aff Jera Þjóð bases its religious and tribal structure on the ancient Scandinavian tribe of the Svear.

Vingolf Kindred (www.geocities.com/~vingolf)
-Good solid people in New Jersey.

~ Publications ~

Lina (www.friggasweb.org)
The quarterly journal of Frigga's Web.

The Runestone (www.therunestone.com)
The quarterly magazine from Asatru Folk Assembly is now online here.

Troth Publications (www.thetroth.org/publications/index.html)
Books and past issues of Idunna magazine available here.

Vor Tru (alliance.eagleut.com/vortru.htm)
Subscription page to the journal of the Old Norse and Germanic religion in Vinland and abroad.

Yggdrasil (www.freyasfolk.org/yggdrasl.htm)
Articles from past issues available to read online.

~ Runes & Seidhr ~

Beginning to Understand Runes (www.anglo-saxon.demon.co.uk/Skvala/runeprim.html)
A simple guide to the runes online, including history and meanings.

On the knife-edge: Seiðr-working and the Anthropologist (www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/2171/seidhr_account.html )
-Written by Jenny Blain, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada.

The Return of the Völva: Recovering the Practice of Seidh (www.hrafnar.org/seidh.html)
This article by Diana L. Paxson was originally published in Mountain Thunder, Summer, 1993

Runes: Alphabet of Mystery (members.aol.com/cbsunny/index.html)
There's a ton of rune information at this website.

~ Merchants ~

Nordkraft (www.nordkraft.net)
Asatru and Viking motif shirts, sweatshirts, caps, and more.

Wodenasdag Press (www.bcsupernet.com/users/wodan/pp-cat2.htm)
Books, art t-shirts, tartans, rings, hammers, runes, horns, and more.

World Tree of the Asatru Alliance (asatru.org/wrldtree.htm)
"Largest selection of Thorr's Hammers in Midgard." Also books, booklets, audio tapes, video tapes, more.

Ye Ole Viking Bookshop (www.book-cellar.com)
Offers reproductions of old out-of-print, rare, and hard-to-find Norse, Viking Asatru books and prints.

~ Graphics & Art ~

Asatru & Heathen Art: Woden's Harrow (www.angelfire.com/on/Wodensharrow/asatro.html)
Beautiful Heathen art & poetry, plus a huge collection of classic Norse Gods & Goddesses pix. TONS of stuff to browse and read through at this website.

Asatru-L Mailing List (www.irminsul.org/as/aslal.html)
This mailing list has been established for the open and free discussion of topics related to Ásatrú or of interest to the Ásatrú community and to with a focus on individual and inter-organizational cooperation, resource sharing and communication.

ASHmail (www.smartgroups.com/groups/ashmail)
Anglo-Saxon Heathen Mail is dedicated to the discussion and study of Anglo-Saxon paganism and Asatru in general.

Asynjur (groups.yahoo.com/group/asynjur/)
A forum for discussing the Goddesses, Disir, and other female aspects of the Northern Tradition (Asatru, Norse Wicca, ect.)

Northeast Asatru (groups.yahoo.com/group/NortheastAsatru/)
A great discussion group for Asatruar in the Northeast USA.