Self-Sufficiency (eBook)

A Complete Guide to Baking, Carpentry, Crafts, Organic Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More!

Abigail Gehring (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015 | Second Edition
456 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-63450-022-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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 livingwhether theyre urbanites or country folk. Following in the footsteps of Back to Basics and Homesteading, this large, fully-illustrated book provides the entire family with the information they need to make the shift toward self-sufficient living.Self-Sufficiency provides tips, advice, and detailed instructions on how to improve everyday life from an environmentally and organic perspective while keeping the focus on the family. Readers will learn how to plant a family garden and harvest the produce; can fruits and vegetables; bake bread and cookies; design interactive and engaging green projects; harness natural wind and solar energy to cook food and warm their homes; boil sap to make maple syrup; and build treehouses, furniture, and more. Also included are natural crafts readers can do with their kids, such as scrapbooking, making potato prints, dipping candles, and constructing seasonal decorations. Whether the goal is to live entirely off the grid or just to shrink their carbon footprints, families will find this book a thorough resource and a great inspiration.

Autor

Abigail R. Gehring is the editor of several DIY books, including Back to Basics, The Homesteading Handbook, and The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Living. She’s practiced living self-sufficiently since her childhood in Vermont, being homeschooled, home-canning jams and jellies, and gardening. She lives in Chester, Vermont.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.7.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Schlagworte: Alternative Energy • backyard • Basics • Beans • Beekeeping • Boo • books on alternative energies books on temperatures • books on beans • books on cabbages • books on carrots • books on celeries • books on chicken raisings • books on chickens • books on cucumbers • books on gardenings • books on grids • books on homesteaders • books on homesteads • books on imaginary people • books on kales • books on natural dyes • books on poles • books on radishes • books on renovations • books on soils • books on traditional skills • books on vegetables • Broccoli • cabbage • canning • Carpentry • carrots • celery • chicken raising • conifers • corn • Crafts • cucumbers • electricity • fruits chickens • Gardening • garlic • GRID • Herbaceous • homeowner • Homestead • homesteader • homesteading • imaginary person • Irrigation • Kale • leeks • lettuce • livestock • Natural Dyes • parsley • Peas • Plant • Planting • Poles • Pottery • preserve • Preserving • radish • Renovation • Self-Sufficiency • self sufficient • self-sufficient • soils • Solar • sufficiency • Sunlight • Sustainable • temperatures • tomatoes • traditional skills • vegetables • Woody
• ISBN-10: 1-63450-022-9 / 1634500229
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63450-022-7 / 9781634500227