the Perpetual Homesteader 

Just as a garden starts with a seed planted, so does a gardening book series. 

in this series Cygnet Brown will demonstrate how just about anyone who has the desire to live sustainably can not only live sustainably, but can create for themselves a system that can do so perpetually.

Being a perpetual homesteader is better than being a prepper. Prepping can take a person only so far. Imagine knowing that you can grow your own food without inputs from the outside world. Imagine what your life would be like if you knew that no matter what was going on in the world, you could grow your own food and energy. Imagine not having to worry when the job that you were counting on is not as secure you thought it was. Imagine what peace of mind you would have that others didn't if the entire economic system collapsed. 

Imagine that none of that happened. You'd still have the best homegrown food that money can't buy. In addition, you would not be contributing to the destruction of the planet. 

 

Who We Are
Cygnet Brown is not new to gardening or to writing. Cygnet started writing and gardening when she was twelve years old. Off and on for the past forty-five years, she has been both writing and gardening.
 
 Cygnet has never used chemicals when she gardens. She has learned that by recycling kitchen scraps and yard wastes, and using other sustainable homesteading methods. 

 Cygnet has written a historical fiction series called The Locket Saga. She has also written nonfiction books including Simply Vegetable Gardening. The Perpetual Vegetable Gardener, the first book in The Perpetual Homesteader series will be her 14th published title. 
     

Our History
The Perpetual Homesteader is Cygnet Brown's current work. Back in January 2019, Cygnet started imagining what she would do if an  EMP occurred the United States was  without power for an extended time.

This exercise led her to start a patio container garden where she grew tomatoes, potatoes, strawberry plants, onions, lettuce, and a few Lima beans. Her husband said that all she needed were a few chickens to round out her patio homestead.

She realized that the main problem wasn't food, but the fact that they were still renting.  Over the next several months, they paid cash for their acre and a half in the country and set up a used mobile home and moved in during the summer of 2020. An outdoor furnace, a vegetable garden and some chickens rounded out the homestead in 2020. As the pandemic and civil unrest grew, she knew that she desired more than anything was to help others increase their own self-sufficiency. She started writing The Perpetual Vegetable Gardener, the first book in The Perpetual Homesteader series.