Essential Guide to Self-Sufficient Living: Vegetable Gardening, Canning and Fermenting, Keeping Chickens, and More

$16.99

SKU: 9781680997118
Author: Gehring, Abigail
Publication Date: 04/06/2021
Publisher: Good Books
Binding: Paperback
Media: Book
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Description

Grow your own vegetables and herbs, indoors in containers or outside in a garden. Raise chickens or goats. Build a beehive. Make your own nontoxic cleaning sprays. And more!

Gehring’s books on country living have sold more than 500,000 copies. In this book, she offers a guide to homesteading skills that is as charming as it is practical. Full of sweet illustrations and gorgeous photographs, step-by-step instructions for essential skills such as building a chicken coop are interspersed with country lore and old-fashioned tips and tricks.

Readers will learn how to:

  • Container garden
  • Raise chickens
  • Churn butter
  • Grow vegetables
  • Can tomatoes
  • Brew kombucha
  • Make shampoo
  • Repel garden pests
  • Milk a goat
  • Improve garden soil
  • Make strawberry-rhubarb jelly
  • Ferment vegetables
  • Make yogurt
  • Sprout grains
  • And more!

The Essential Guide to Self-Sufficient Living combines the know-how of Back to Basics with the charm of The Farmer’s Almanac. This is the perfect gift for anyone interested in a more self-sufficient, greener, country lifestyle.