The Essential Guide to Self-Sufficient Living: Vegetable Gardening, Canning and Fermenting, Keeping Chickens, and More

Gehring, Abigail

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Condition: New, UPC: 9781680997118, Publication Date: Thu, April 1, 2021, Type: Paperback ,

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5Grow your own vegetables and herbs, indoors in containers or outside in a garden. Raise chickens or goats. Build a beehive. Make your own nontoxic cleaning sprays. And more!

Gehring's books on country living have sold more than 500,000 copies. In this book, she offers a guide to homesteading skills that is as charming as it is practical. Full of sweet illustrations and gorgeous photographs, step-by-step instructions for essential skills such as building a chicken coop are interspersed with country lore and old-fashioned tips and tricks.

Readers will learn how to:

Container garden
Raise chickens
Churn butter
Grow vegetables
Can tomatoes
Brew kombucha
Make shampoo
Repel garden pests
Milk a goat
Improve garden soil
Make strawberry-rhubarb jelly
Ferment vegetables
Make yogurt
Sprout grains
And more!

The Essential Guide to Self-Sufficient Living combines the know-how of Back to Basics with the charm of The Farmer's Almanac. This is the perfect gift for anyone interested in a more self-sufficient, greener, country lifestyle.

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