Category: Homesteading, Self-Sufficiency

Back to Basics 4E A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills

By: Abigail R. Gehring

Price: $47.95

Publisher: USA, Skyhorse Publishing : 2014

Seller ID: 001828

ISBN-13: 9781629143699

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The classic guide to self-sufficiency, with more than 200,000 copies sold-now fully updated! Anyone who wants to learn basic living skills-the kind employed by our forefathers-and adapt them for a better life in the twenty-first century need look no further than this eminently useful, full-color guide. Countless readers have turned to Back to Basics for inspiration and instruction, escaping to an era before power saws and fast-food restaurants and rediscovering the pleasures and challenges of a healthier, greener, and more self-sufficient lifestyle. Now newly updated, the hundreds of projects,...
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The Country Living Handbook: A Back-to-Basics Guide to Living off the Land

By: Abigail R. Gehring

Price: $24.95

Publisher: USA, Skyhorse Publishing : 2014

Seller ID: 001772

ISBN-13: 9781628736144

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Packed with step-by-step instructions, useful tips, time-honored wisdom, and both illustrations and photographs, this compact guide has everything you need to dive into a more self-sufficient life. From canning and preserving to keeping chickens, fermenting vegetables to soap-making, Gehring covers all the basics in this easy-to-read, approachable collection. Topics covered include: Generating your own energy Herbal medicine Cheese-making Maple sugaring Farm mechanics Building a smokehouse Dyeing wool Composting Disaster Preparedness And more! Whether you own one hundred acres or rent a studio...
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100 Skills for the End of the World as We Know it

By: Ana Maria Spagna

Price: $21.95

Publisher: USA, Storey Publishing : 2015

Seller ID: 001973

ISBN-13: 9781612124568

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Once the dust has settled, you'll need to know how to barter, perform basic first aid, preserve food, cut your own hair, clean a chimney, navigate by the stars, stitch a wound, darn socks, and sharpen blades. You'll also want to build a stable and safe community, so you'll need to master the arts of conversation, child raising, listening, music making, and storytelling. This fascinating and entertaining book, full of quirky illustrations by artist Brian Cronin, will provoke surprise, debate, and laughter while it provides a road map to greater self-reliance and joy, whatever the future brings.
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The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How

By: Andrea Chesman

Price: $29.95

Publisher: USA, Storey Publishing : 2015

Seller ID: 003371

ISBN-13: 9781612122045

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Andrea Chesman shows you how to bridge the gap between field and table, covering everything from curing meats and making sausage to canning fruits and vegetables, milling flour, working with sourdough, baking no-knead breads, making braises and stews that can be adapted to different cuts of meat, rendering lard and tallow, pickling, making butter and cheese, making yogurt, blanching vegetables for the freezer, making jams and jellies, drying produce, and much more. You'll learn all the techniques you need to get the most from home grown foods, along with dozens of simple and delicious recipes,...
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Canning & Preserving All-in-One For Dummies

By: Consumer Dummies

Price: $32.95

Publisher: USA, John Wiley & Sons Ltd : 2011

Seller ID: 000663

ISBN-13: 9781118034194

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Everything you need to can, preserve, and put up your own food Amid an increasing focus on locally sourced whole foods, preserving, rather than preservatives, is enjoying a comeback. With 300 delicious recipes, Canning and Preserving All-In-One For Dummies gives you a single, comprehensive resource on all aspects of putting up your own food; the equipment and ingredients you'll need; and the different techniques such as smoking, drying, curing, pickling, juicing, and root cellaring that you'll explore. Canning and Preserving All-in-One For Dummies is a perfect guide for home cooks looking to l...
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Two Percent Solutions for the Planet: 50 Low-Cost, Low-Tech, Nature-Based Practices for Combatting Hunger, Drought, and Climate Change

By: Courtney White

Price: $39.95

Publisher: USA, Chelsea Green Publishing : 2015

Seller ID: 003664

ISBN-13: 9781603586177

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Two Percent Solutions for the Planet profiles fifty innovative practices that soak up carbon dioxide in soils, reduce energy use, sustainably intensify food production, and increase water quality. The two percent refers to: the amount of new carbon in the soil needed to reap a wide variety of ecological and economic benefits; the percentage of the nation s population who are farmers and ranchers; and the low financial cost (in terms of GDP) needed to get this work done. As White explained in Grass, Soil, Hope, a highly efficient carbon cycle captures, stores, releases, and recaptures biochemic...
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Homesteading 2E A Backyard Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Medicine, and More

By: Edited by Abigail R. Gehring

Price: $42.95

Publisher: USA, Skyhorse Publishing : 2014

Seller ID: 002735

ISBN-13: 9781629143668

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Who doesn't want to shrink their carbon footprint, save money, and eat homegrown food whenever possible? Even readers who are very much on the grid will embrace this large, fully illustrated guide on the basics of living the good, clean life. It's written with country lovers in mind-even those who currently live in the city. Whether you live in the city, the suburbs, or even the wilderness, there is plenty you can do to improve your life from a green perspective. Got sunlight? Start container gardening. With a few plants, fresh tomato sauce is a real option with your own homegrown fresh tomat...
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Self-Sufficiency 2E A Complete Guide to Baking, Carpentry, Crafts, Organic Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More!

By: Edited by Abigail R. Gehring

Price: $42.95

Publisher: USA, Skyhorse Publishing : 2015

Seller ID: 002631

ISBN-13: 9781632202802

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A Complete Guide to Baking, Carpentry, Crafts, Organic Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More! The inspiring guide to back to basics living, now fully updated! Now, more than ever, people across the country are turning toward simpler, greener, and quieter ways of living-whether they're urbanites or country folk. Following in the footsteps of Back to Basics and Homesteading, 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 in...
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How Can I be Prepared with Self-sufficiency and Survival Foods? 2nd Edition: An essential manual to help us survive in a Toxic World

By: Isabell Shipard

Price: $36.95

Publisher: Australia, David Stewart : 2008

Seller ID: 9780975825235

ISBN-13: 9780975825235

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Isabell Shipard, one of Australia's most knowledgable and sought after authorities on herbs and author of the acclaimed books How can I use Herbs in my daily life? and How can I grow and use Sprouts as living food? says, "For many years I taught Herb Courses, covering many edible plants, and included a segment on survival foods and the importance of self-sufficiency for possible hard times. People often expressed that I should put this information into a book. With the economic squeeze in Australia, and severe drought experienced over large areas of farmland, just what will the future hold for...
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Backyard Self Sufficiency 2nd Edition

By: Jackie French

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Australia, Manna Publishing : 2009

Seller ID: 003109

ISBN-13: 9780947214586

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Self-sufficient gardens are beautiful - a ramble of productivity, and a profusion of smells and colour. Jackie will help you to create a 'Garden of Eden' in your own backyard. About the Author: Jackie French is a highly esteemed writer for children and adults with more than 100 books to her credit. She lives in Australia with her family and usually one or more wombats.
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The Water-Wise Home: How to conserve and reuse Water in your home and landscape

By: Laura Allen

Price: $34.95

Publisher: USA, Storey Publishing : 2015

Seller ID: 001929

ISBN-13: 9781612121697

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Are you looking for ways to save water -- or money? This accessible guide by Laura Allen, founder of Greywater Action, explains how to use water smartly and efficiently, increasing supply, saving money, reducing wear on your septic system, and filling your home and garden needs. She describes proven conservation techniques, explains how to create a water-wise landscape, and provides illustrated, step-by-step instructions for setting up a waterless composting toilet as well as systems to reuse greywater, harvest rainwater, and more.
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Sustainable Food: Growing Food in the City

By: Michael Mobbs

Price: $44.95

Publisher: Australia, Choice Books : 2012

Seller ID: 002825

ISBN-13: 9781920705541

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

After renovating his inner-city Sydney terrace and making it almost entirely self-sufficient in energy, water and waste disposal, Michael Mobbs realised his house was sustainable, but he wasn't. While his house saves 100,000 litres of dam water a year, the same amount of water is used to produce ten days' worth of food for the average Australian. In this companion book to the bestselling Sustainable House, Mobbs turns his attention to reducing the carbon emissions associated with growing, processing, transporting, selling and disposing food. With his own experiences anchoring the book, Sustain...
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Sustainable House 2nd Edition

By: Michael Mobbs

Price: $44.95

Publisher: Australia, Choice Books : 2010

Seller ID: 002826

ISBN-13: 9781920705527

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Whether you're planning to build or renovate, whether you in live in an apartment or a house, Sustainable House is the essential guide to help you achieve an environmentally friendly home. It includes advice on converting your kitchen, bathroom, water supply, energy, waste system and garden, as well as tips for working with councils, builders and engineers, and the costs and benefits associated with making your home sustainable. First published in 1998, this long-awaited second edition covers the revolutions that have since occurred in sustainable housing, and, critically, includes the author'...
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The Art of Fermentation: An In-depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World Temporarily Out of Stock

By: Sandor Ellix Katz

Price: $74.95

Publisher: USA, Chelsea Green Publishing : 2012

Seller ID: 000144

ISBN-13: 9781603582865

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Winner of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, and a New York Times bestseller, The Art of Fermentation is the most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published. Sandor Katz presents the concepts and processes behind fermentation in ways that are simple enough to guide a reader through their first experience making sauerkraut or yogurt, and in-depth enough to provide greater understanding and insight for experienced practitioners. While Katz expertly contextualizes fermentation in terms of biological and cultural evolution, health...
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The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience

By: Toby Hemenway

Price: $39.95

Publisher: USA, Chelsea Green Publishing : 2015

Seller ID: 003402

ISBN-13: 9781603585262

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Permaculture is more than just the latest buzzword; it offers positive solutions for many of the environmental and social challenges confronting us. And nowhere are those remedies more needed and desired than in our cities. The Permaculture City provides a new way of thinking about urban living, with practical examples for creating abundant food, energy security, close-knit communities, local and meaningful livelihoods, and sustainable policies in our cities and towns. The same nature-based approach that works so beautifully for growing food connecting the pieces of the landscape together in h...
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Category: Homesteading, Self-Sufficiency