The Essential Guide to Self-Sufficient Living
Vegetable Gardening, Canning and Fermenting, Keeping Chickens, and More
Published on 6. April 2021
176 pages
978-1-5107-6419-4 (ISBN)
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!
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Person
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.
Content
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- I: Growing Things
- Choosing a Site for Your Garden
- Companion Planting
- Improving Your Soil
- Growing Vegetables and Herbs
- Container Gardening
- Raised Beds
- Insects and Mites
- Plant Diseases
- Harvesting Your Garden
- II: Raising Animals
- Keeping Chickens
- Keeping Bees
- Keeping Goats
- Keeping Dairy Cows
- Keeping Pigs
- III: Food from Scratch
- Canning
- Homemade Butter, Cheese, and Ice Cream
- Fermenting
- Grinding and Sprouting Grains
- IV: Natural Cleaners and Bath Products
- Bath Salts and Cosmetics
- Shampoo, Conditioner, and Body Cleansers
- Household Cleansers and Detergents
- Index
