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The Essential Guide to Self-Sufficient Living

Vegetable Gardening, Canning and Fermenting, Keeping Chickens, and More
By Abigail Gehring
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The Essential Guide to Self-Sufficient Living by Abigail Gehring offers a charming and practical manual for anyone eager to embrace a self-sufficient, country lifestyle. This guide covers a wide range of homesteading skills, from container gardening and raising chickens to brewing kombucha and making homemade cleaning products. Filled with sweet illustrations and gorgeous photographs, the book provides step-by-step instructions alongside country lore and traditional tips, making it accessible for beginners and enthusiasts alike.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book is ideal for readers interested in sustainable living, homesteading, and environmentally friendly practices. It suits those seeking hands-on advice for growing food, raising animals, and crafting everyday household items with a green approach.

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Grow 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781680997118

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 April 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Skyhorse Publishing

Illustration: Color photos throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 590g

Pages: 176

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About the Author

Abigail R. Gehring is the author or editor of more than a dozen books including Back to Basics, Homesteading, and The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Living. She's practiced living self-sufficiently since her childhood in Vermont, being home-schooled, home-canning jams and jellies, and enjoying natural crafts. She lives with her husband, two kids, and Siberian husky in an1800s farmstead in southern Vermont.

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