The Homesteading Handbook: A Back to Basics Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herb - Abigail Gehring

\nHere 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 \nWith 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. \n\n \n- Plan, plant, and harvest your own organic home garden. \n- Enjoy fruits and vegetables year-round by canning, drying, and freezing. \n- Build alternate energy devices by hand, such as solar panels or geothermal heat pumps. \n- Differentiate between an edible puffball mushroom and a poisonous amanita. \n- Prepare butternut squash soup using ingredients from your own garden. \n- Conserve water by making a rain barrel or installing an irrigation system. \n- Have fun and save cash by handcrafting items such as soap, potpourri, and paper. \nExperience 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.