The Homesteading Handbook: A Back to Basics Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Me

By Abigail R. Gehring

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616082658
• ISBN13: 9781616082659
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Typos and Errors

I really wish I had read the reviews on other sites prior to purchasing this book. The organization is clunky. There are typos in the text. The livestock section has very bad information (why raise llama for fiber when alpaca are easier and bred specifically for it? no mention of what temp water to use to wash eggs - makes a big difference in not pulling microorganisms into the shell! beheading a chicken is not recommended since the heart stops and you will have a harder time bleeding the carcass; no mention of scouring a fleece (just picking some matter out of it), etc.). There are a few scattered references to sources for more information, but there are no sources cited for any of the material in here.