Self-Sufficiency

Author: Abigail Gehring
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1628732601
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 1216

Book Description
Now, more than ever, people across the country are turning toward simpler, greener, and quieter ways of living—whether they’re urbanites or country folk. Following in the footsteps of Back to Basics and Homesteading, this large, fully-illustrated book provides the entire family with the information they need to make the shift toward self-sufficient living. Self-Sufficiency provides tips, advice, and detailed instructions on how to improve everyday life from an environmentally and organic perspective while keeping the focus on the family. Readers will learn how to plant a family garden and harvest the produce; can fruits and vegetables; bake bread and cookies; design interactive and engaging “green” projects; harness natural wind and solar energy to cook food and warm their homes; boil sap to make maple syrup; and build treehouses, furniture, and more. Also included are natural crafts readers can do with their kids, such as scrapbooking, making potato prints, dipping candles, and constructing seasonal decorations. Whether the goal is to live entirely off the grid or just to shrink their carbon footprints, families will find this book a thorough resource and a great inspiration.

The Ultimate Self-Sufficiency Handbook

Author: Abigail Gehring
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1616087102
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
A do-it-yourselfer s dream guide to simpler, greener, and more sustainable...

Foraging for Wild Foods

Author: David Squire
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607652757
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 263

Book Description
With delightful illustrations and fascinating facts aimed at young readers, this children’s book explores the natural world of riverbanks. Have you ever wondered how and why beavers build their dams, how otters live, or how frogs come to be? Now you can find out! This charming picture book teaches young children what it’s like to be an animal living on and in the water. With each turn of the page, this volume reveals dozens of adorable illustrations, educational captions, and vocabulary words. From beavers and otters to snakes, frogs, newts, and more, children will love learning all about these busy aquatic animals and the amazing lives they live! This is a fixed-format ebook, which preserves the design and layout of the original print book

The Everything Backyard Farming Book

Author: Neil Shelton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 144056602X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 520

Book Description
Self-sufficiency doesn't have to mean getting off the grid entirely. That level of independence isn't practical for most people. A backyard farm can provide an abundance of inexpensive food as well as additional income which can bring you real independence. Whether you're a first-timer who wants to start growing vegetables or an experienced gardener looking to expand a small plot into a minifarm, The Everything Backyard Farming Book has all you need, from growing fruits and vegetables to raising animals to preserving and storing food. With this common-sense guide, you will be able to take control of the food you eat - in an urban or suburban setting.

Home Smoking and Curing of Meat, Fish and Game

Author: Joanna Farrow
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607652552
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
Make the tastiest bacon, most delicious smoked fish, or perfectly cured salami without the need for high-tech equipment or expensive ingredients. Smoking and curing originated as ways to preserve food before the advent of tin cans, freezers and vacuum packs. Nowadays, these ancient skills are enjoying a comeback as many of us look towards a more self-sufficient and rewarding way of preparing, storing and eating our food. In this book, author Joanna Farrow explains how with some basic ingredients and equipment, you can soon be salting, curing, air-drying, and smoking a whole range of seasonal and year-round produce. With clear instructions and advice to help you get started, plus twenty-five original recipes for meat, game, and shellfish, this book will give you the confidence and know-how to begin your own experiments. What could be more delicious than home-cured bacon, subtle smoked salmon, or air-dried ham? With guides to setting up your own smoker, preparing salt and brine cures, drying, and preserving, Self-Sufficiency: Home Smoking and Curing is the perfect introduction to making the most of meat, fish, game and poultry.

The Self-Sufficient Gardener

Author: John Seymour
Publisher: Main Street Books
ISBN: 9780385146715
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Carefully explains the entire process of growing more than one hundred twenty-five vegetables, fruits, and herbs, recommending which vegetables to grow according to the space available and how to improve soil conditions

Preserving Food Without Freezing Or Canning

Author: The Gardeners and Farmers of Centre Terre Vivante
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1933392592
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Translation of: Conserves naturelles des quatre saisons.

Self-Sufficiency for the 21st Century

Author: Dick and James Strawbridge
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0744024366
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
Looking for a way to reduce your environmental impact? Find your route to a more sustainable lifestyle with Dick Strawbridge and his son James. We can all take steps to reduce our carbon footprint and be more self-sufficient. For some, that might mean heading to the countryside to live off the land. For the rest of us, the reality might involve smaller, but no less important, lifestyle changes: cutting back on plastic or food waste, growing vegetables, preserving meat and fish, preparing jams and chutneys, baking sourdough bread, making your own plant-based milks, or keeping a chicken or two. Dick and James Strawbridge know what it's like to make these changes. Between them, they've lived on a smallholding, in a terraced house, and even a chateau. In this updated book, they share everything they've learned and give you the tools you need for a more rewarding and environmentally-conscious life. Whether you want to completely revamp your lifestyle or just make everyday changes that will make an impact, Self-Sufficiency for the 21st Century is the perfect place to start.

The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency

Author: John Seymour
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN: 024147762X
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
Embrace off-grid green living with the bestselling classic guide to a more sustainable way of life, now with a brand new foreword from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. John Seymour has inspired thousands to make more responsible, enriching, and eco-friendly choices with his advice on living sustainably. The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency offers step-by-step instructions on everything from chopping trees to harnessing solar power; from growing fruit and vegetables, and preserving and pickling your harvest, to baking bread, brewing beer, and making cheese. Seymour shows you how to live off the land, running your own smallholding or homestead, keeping chickens, and raising (and butchering) livestock. In a world of mass production, intensive farming, and food miles, Seymour's words offer an alternative: a celebration of the joy of investing time, labour, and love into the things we need. While we aren't all be able to move to the countryside, we can appreciate the need to eat food that has been grown ethically or create things we can cherish, using skills that have been handed down through generations. With refreshed, retro-style illustrations and a brand-new foreword by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, this new edition of Seymour's classic title is a balm for anyone who has ever sought solace away from the madness of modern life.

How to Store Your Garden Produce

Author: Piers Warren
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1907448012
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Become self-sufficient all year round with this handy guide to storing your garden produce. There is a huge sense of satisfaction in being so self-reliant that you can grow fresh fruit and vegetables all year. With less than an acre, you can cultivate enough produce to feed a family of four for an entire year – but as most produce is ripe in the summer and autumn, most of it will go to waste without proper storage. How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency is a modern guide to storing and preserving your garden produce, enabling you to eat home-grown goodness all year round. The book is beautifully organised with the first part detailing a variety of creative storage methods, including basic storage, clamping, drying and vacuum-packing as well as pickles, chutneys, cheese, jams and jellies. The book also features an easy-to-use A-Z list of produce, in which each entry includes recommended varieties, suggested methods of storage and a range of delicious and unusual recipes to try out, from apple cider and strawberry wine to mushroom ketchup and pumpkin soup. With this helpful book, you'll know where your food has come from, save money, avoid packaging and eat home-grown food. Learn simple and enjoyable techniques for storing your produce and embrace the wonderful world of self-sufficiency.