The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading: An Encyclopedia of Independent Living - Nicole Faires

This practical guide to independent living offers everything readers want to know about self-reliance, preparedness, survival, and sustainable homesteading. \nThe Ultimate Guide to Homesteading is a practical guide with nitty-gritty details on everything a homesteader can do, step-by-step with hundreds of color illustrations and pen and ink sketches. \nYou can do it This book will show you how to: \n\n \n- Make your own bread? \n- Grow a garden all winter \n- Make a solar oven \n- Store food without electricity \n- Raise a water buffalo \n- Make fine linen from stinging nettle \n- Make your own shampoo \n- Deliver a baby \nYes, you, too, can be totally self-sufficient This massive, full-color book answers all these questions and thousands more and includes checklists, diagrams, and instructions. All the information meets these criteria: It is something that anyone can do, without special training. It can be done with relatively few supplies or with stuff you can make yourself. It has been tried and tested--either by the author, the military, doctors, or other homesteaders.