Homesteading: A Backyard Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Medicine, and More

By Abigail R. Gehring

Book Overview

Whether you want to live off the grid as part of the modern back to nature movement, or simply learn new skills that will make your home more comfortable and your garden grow, this companion to the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1602397473
• ISBN13: 9781602397477
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 11.0" x 8.6"

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.