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This compact guide provides advice, tips, and step-by-step instructions for hundreds of projects, offering the entire family the tools they need to make the shift toward self-sufficient living. Readers will learn to dip candles, bake bread, make maple syrup, start a vineyard, and much more. With special features for young homesteaders, this is an essential family guide to self-sufficient living.
- Bake Pies, Cakes, and Bread
- Grow Vegetables and...
2) Beekeeping
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Learn what all the buzz is about with this guide to the fascinating and sustainable hobby of keeping bees. Plus: honey recipes for food and skin care!
Beekeeping is about management, control and learning to understand the honeybee. It can also become a very enjoyable and sociable pastime-visiting others' hives and picking up vital hints and tips is all part of the fun-and farming and eating honey that your own bees have produced is a pure delight.
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3) Home Brewing
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What could be better than enjoying a glass of delicious home-brewed organic beer? This book includes everything you'll need to know to brew a variety of beers at home, from the equipment and techniques needed to a few inside secrets from a professional brewer. In this timely book, John Parkes demystifies the brewing process and explains in easy-to-follow terms how anyone can produce delicious beer with the help of just some basic equipment and a few...
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Tap into the healing power of nature by increasing your plant knowledge, putting together an herbal first aid kit, and even growing your own medicine.
What could be more wonderful that being able to soothe your own and your family's aches and pains naturally? Here Melissa Corkhill gives advice for treating common conditions and illnesses at home using remedies provided by Mother Nature.
In this book you'll discover how to treat non-serious complaints,...
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With delightful illustrations and fascinating facts aimed at young readers, this children's book explores the natural world of riverbanks.
Have you ever wondered how and why beavers build their dams, how otters live, or how frogs come to be? Now you can find out! This charming picture book teaches young children what it's like to be an animal living on and in the water. With each turn of the page, this volume reveals dozens of adorable illustrations,...
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Preserving fruits and vegetables is a great way to turn home-grown or local produce into delicious treats that can be enjoyed all year round. There are several different preserving methods and all give delicious results. Jams, jellies, fruit butters and curds, bottled fruits, chutneys, pickles and salted vegetables are all practical and economical ways to preserve seasonal produce. And you don't need a load of kitchen gadgets and equipment to get...
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Make the tastiest bacon, most delicious smoked fish, or perfectly cured salami without the need for high-tech equipment or expensive ingredients.
Smoking and curing originated as ways to preserve food before the advent of tin cans, freezers and vacuum packs. Nowadays, these ancient skills are enjoying a comeback as many of us look towards a more self-sufficient and rewarding way of preparing, storing and eating our food. In this book, author Joanna...
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Most conventional store-bought cleaning products are packed full of chemicals, many of which are harmful to the environment and your health, let alone your wallet. You'll be pleasantly surprised to discover that your kitchen cupboard already stocks the alternative supplies you'll need to transform your home into a clean, safe, and fresh-smelling haven! Lemons, salt, vinegar, baking soda, and club soda are just some of the natural ingredients used...
9) Preserving
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There are several different methods of preserving fruits and vegetables and all give delicious results. Jams, jellies, fruit butters and curds, bottled fruits, chutneys, pickles, and salted vegetables are all practical and economical ways to preserve seasonal produce. All you need is a heavy-based pan, a funnel, a sugar thermometer, and glass storage jars. Ingredients, popular fruits and vegetables, sugars, cooking techniques, storage information,...
10) Grow Your Own
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Reap the advantages of backyard-to-table produce with tips on planning, soil, fertilizers, cultivation, pests, and diseases. Includes a Quickstart Guide!
This is a simple and systematic guide to growing a selection of the tastiest fruit and vegetables. The aim of this book is to start you off with some easy-to-grow produce such as carrots, onions, radishes, tomatoes and strawberries. Once you have the confidence of the first growing season behind...
11) Herbs and Spices
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This clear and concise directory provides all the essential information readers need to grow, use, and store a wide selection of flavor-enhancing herbs and spices. Some herbs are annuals, some are perennials, and some can be grown indoors-but all of those highlighted here can be grown either in pots or directly in the soil. Each individual plant profile includes detailed growing advice. Home and garden expert Linda Gray tells how to prepare the soil,...
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A Complete Guide to Baking, Carpentry, Crafts, Organic Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More!
The inspiring guide to back to basics living, now fully updated!
Now, more than ever, people across the country are turning toward simpler, greener, and quieter ways of living-whether they're urbanites or country folk. Following in the footsteps of Back to Basics and Homesteading, this large, fully illustrated book provides the entire...
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A comprehensive yet concise guide to making cheese at home, featuring step-by-step instructions, recipes, advice, troubleshooting tips, and more.
Inside this book you will find everything you need to know to begin making cheese, from the tools and equipment for the job and basic recipes to making more complex cheeses and advice on setting up a small cheese business.
There is no need to be scientifically trained or an accomplished cook to make delicious...
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In this comprehensive book, an expert textile arts instructor reveals everything you need to know to make your own fabrics.
In “Self-Sufficiency: Spinning, Dyeing & Weaving”, you will learn where different fibers come from, how to grow and harvest your own vegetable fibers, and how to prepare them for spinning. The principles of spindle and spinning wheel spinning are covered, along with home dyeing using natural dyestuffs, and hand weaving with...
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Discover a safer, greener, less expensive way to keep your house clean with this simple guide to making your own natural products.
This friendly book will help you become more self-sufficient while benefiting your health, the environment, and your bank balance. Natural Household Cleaning is packed with easy-to-follow recipes for natural alternatives to common commercial cleaning products-all using harm-free ingredients found in your kitchen cupboard!
Lemons,...
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A beginner's guide to keeping hens with info on over fifty breeds, plus housing, feeding, daily care, disease prevention, egg production, breeding, & more.
Self-sufficiency and organic living have never been more prevalent than in recent years. Keeping hens is becoming increasingly popular and is one way of ensuring you have fresh produce at your fingertips.
This authoritative book introduces some of the key aspects of keeping your own chickens...
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Making your own bread by hand is a simple pleasure and a great starting point for anyone looking to become a little more self-sufficient. Making bread can be therapeutic and creative and is achievable with even a basic level of culinary skill. Filling your kitchen with the delicious smells of baking bread is reward enough in itself but it is important that the finished product tastes great too. Food writer and culinary stylist Kathryn Hawkins covers...