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Cycle 4 Survival Reading Form 4+

Cycle 4 Habit Training

Form 4 and 5 students at STAR read all of the following books and also do independent study about survival. You can download the pdf schedule below.

The Walls Around Us by David Owen 

This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week from Week 1 through Week 9.

Ten Acres Enough by Edmund Morris

This book is scheduled at a pace of one to two chapters per week from Week 10 through Week 26.

Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon 

This book is scheduled at a pace of about twenty to twenty-five pages per week through all twenty-eight weeks.

You can download the pdf here:

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If you have book suggestions or comments about these books, please share! 🙂

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All Cycles Survival Skills Form 4+

All Cycles Survival Skills Form 4+
  • Animal Fat Rendering
  • Animal Trapping
  • Basket Weaving
  • Berry Identification
  • Braided Rugs
  • Bug Out Bags
  • Butter Making
  • Campfire Cooking
  • Cast Iron Pot Cooking
  • Candle Making
  • Cheese Making
  • Chickens-Raising for Eggs
  • Chickens-Raising for Meat
  • Cleaning Fish
  • Compass Skills
  • Container Gardening
  • Cows-Raising for Meat
  • Cows-Raising for Milk
  • Crocheting
  • Dehydrating Food
  • Ducks-Raising for Eggs
  • Ducks-Raising for Meat
  • Emergency Shelter Making
  • Essential Oils
  • Fence Building/Repairing
  • Fermenting (Vegetables)
  • Filtering Water
  • Fire Building
  • First Aid
  • Fishing
  • Flint & Steel
  • Food Safety
  • Foraging for Food (Safely)
  • Freeze Drying Food
  • Freezing Food
  • Garlic Braiding
  • Goats-Raising for Meat
  • Goats-Raising for Milk
  • Herb Drying
  • Herb Gardening
  • Herbal Medicine/Tinctures
  • Hogs-Raising for Meat
  • Hunting
  • Identifying Spoiled Food
  • Knife Skills
  • Knitting
  • Knot Tying
  • Lavender Crafts
  • Life Guard Skills
  • Map Skills
  • Pasta Making (homemade)
  • Plant Identification
  • Pond Building
  • Potable Water
  • Preparing Wild Game
  • Pressure Canning
  • Rabbits-Raising for Meat
  • Rocket Stove Making
  • Rope Structures
  • Signaling in an Emergency
  • Salve Making
  • Self Defense
  • Sheep-Raising for Meat
  • Soap Making
  • Solar Ovens
  • Sourdough Bread
  • Sewing 
  • Swimming
  • Tree Identification
  • Turkeys-Raising for Meat
  • Water Bath Canning
  • Whittling
  • Wildlife Encounter Safety (Bears, Coyotes, etc.)
  • Wood Carving
  • Wood Chopping
  • Yogurt Making


You can download the pdf here:

Let me know if you have any suggestions for topics to add to this list!