The Essential Guide to Self-Sufficient Living: Vegetable Gardening, Canning and Fermenting, Keeping Chickens, and More - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Good BooksISBN-13:9781680997118ISBN-10:1680997114UPC:9781680997118Book Category:House & Home, GardeningBook Subcategory:Sustainable Living, Cleaning, Caretaking & Organizing, TechniquesSize:9.00 x 7.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.3206Product ID:SC8BY5E4QH
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
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Good BooksISBN-13:9781680997118ISBN-10:1680997114UPC:9781680997118Book Category:House & Home, GardeningBook Subcategory:Sustainable Living, Cleaning, Caretaking & Organizing, TechniquesSize:9.00 x 7.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.3206Product ID:SC8BY5E4QH
Abigail R. Gehring is the author or editor of more than a dozen books including Back to Basics, Homesteading, and The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Living. She's practiced living self-sufficiently since her childhood in Vermont, being home-schooled, home-canning jams and jellies, and enjoying natural crafts. She lives with her husband, two kids, and Siberian husky in an 1800s farmstead in southern Vermont.
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