The Homesteading Handbook. A Back to Basics Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Medicine, and More.

Gehring, Abigail R

ISBN 10: 1616082658 / ISBN 13: 9781616082659

Published by Skyhorse Publishing, 2011

About this Item

The ultimate guide to self-sufficient living for country, urban, and suburban. Series: Back to Basics Guides. Num Pages: 272 pages, colour illustrations, black & white line drawings, colour line drawings, maps, charts. BIC Classification: WK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 175 x 23. Weight in Grams: 800. . 2011. Paperback. . . . .

Seller Inventory # V9781616082659

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Homesteading Handbook. A Back to Basics Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Medicine, and More.
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1616082658
• ISBN 13: 9781616082659
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Abigail R. Gehring is the author or editor of more than a dozen books including Back to Basics, Homesteading, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Living, and Classic Candy. She enjoys writing, gardening, experimenting in the kitchen, and spending time with family. She lives with her husband and two children in an 1800s farmstead they are restoring in Marlboro, Vermont.