purplerabbits

I am looking for a genre of fiction that I don't know if it exists. Something to do with self-sufficiency, building your own houses, living off the land. I know of (but don't own any) science fiction that's like settlers on a new planet, but even that tends to have another plot, not just be about how they did it. If I could find something like that I think it would give me the same pleasure as I got from Coral Island as a kid...

Also I need to own some Gram Rabbit, but that's by the by...