Hobbit Homes & Yurts: A Guide to Living Off-Grid

Hobbit Homes and Yurts: A Guide to Living Off-Grid is a practical guide to creating a home and a life with greater independence from conventional systems.

Drawing on decades of hands-on experience, Hugh Morshead shares what he has learned building and living in unconventional homes, from yurts and earthbag structures to the systems that make off-grid life work. The book covers natural building, water, electricity, heating, sanitation, food growing, foraging, composting, and the everyday realities of living closer to the land.

Part building guide, part field manual, and part record of a life lived differently, Hobbit Homes and Yurts offers practical knowledge for anyone interested in natural building, self-sufficiency, alternative homes, or simply finding a more resourceful way to live.

This book is for hobbits who happen to have strayed into the human world and now have to navigate their way out of the wreckage of post-industrial collapse and re-build the Shire with little more than their gumption and the gist from long forgotten folk memories. They are not alone on this quest, the spirit world also yearns for a return to the bountifulness of Nature and together they overcome the challenges and achieve serenity of heart and soul. It is also the story of how a daydreaming schoolboy metaphorically stepped out the classroom window and went from tuition to intuition with dreams of adventure in far-off lands which gave him the skills and wisdom to create his own Shire.