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The Homesteading Handbook: A Back to Basics Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Me

by Abigail Gehring

Practical skills for a more self-sufficient home

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Practical skills for a more self-sufficient home

Gardening, food preservation, home energy projects, water conservation, and handcrafts share space in this broad guide to homesteading. Its examples range from planting and harvesting vegetables to canning, drying, and freezing produce, making a rain barrel, and crafting items such as soap and paper. The book also covers identifying edible and poisonous mushrooms and building alternative-energy devices. With its emphasis on skills that can be practiced in farm, suburban, or city settings, it presents homesteading as a collection of household projects rather than a lifestyle tied to one kind of property.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • People interested in growing and preserving their own food
  • Householders exploring water-saving or alternative-energy projects
  • Crafters interested in practical homemade goods

Themes

Self-sufficiencyHome gardening and food preservationWater and energy conservationHandcrafting

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Book overview

Here is a full-color guide to help you and your family to be kinder to Mother Earth, while being kind to your bank account! It doesn't matter where your homestead is located--farm, suburb, or even city--you can learn to grow vegetables, use alternative energy, can and preserve, and more! You, too, can be more self-sufficient!

With the rapid depletion of our planet's natural resources, we would all like to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle. But in the midst of an economic crisis, it's just as important to save money as it is to go green.
  • Plan, plant, and harvest your own organic home garden.
  • Enjoy fruits and vegetables year-round by canning, drying, and freezing.
  • Build alternate energy devices by hand, such as solar panels or geothermal heat pumps.
  • Differentiate between an edible puffball mushroom and a poisonous amanita.
  • Prepare butternut squash soup using ingredients from your own garden.
  • Conserve water by making a rain barrel or installing an irrigation system.
  • Have fun and save cash by handcrafting items such as soap, potpourri, and paper.

Experience the satisfaction that comes with self-sufficiency, as well as the assurance that you have done your part to help keep our planet green. The Homesteading Handbook is your roadmap to living in harmony with the land.
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