Self-Sufficiency - Hardcover

Gehring, Abigail

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0716022729 ISBN 13: 9780716022725

Publisher: How To Books Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

ABIGAIL R. GEHRING is the editor of Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills and Homesteading and author of Odd Jobs and Dangerous Jobs. She's practised living self-sufficiently since her childhood in Vermont, being homeschooled, and enjoys home-canning jams and jellies, and natural crafts. She lives in Weehawken, New Jersey, and Windham, Vermont.

Edition details

• Publisher: How To Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0716022729
• ISBN 13: 9780716022725
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 464