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The Ultimate Self-Sufficiency Handbook

A Complete Guide to Baking, Crafts, Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More
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The Ultimate Self-Sufficiency Handbook by Abigail Gehring is a comprehensive manual that guides readers on the journey to self-reliance. It covers an array of practical skills such as gardening, preserving food, raising animals, and crafting household items. The book serves as an empowering resource for those looking to live more independently and sustainably.
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You might enjoy this book if you're keen on exploring a self-sufficient lifestyle and learning practical skills for everyday independence. It's perfect for those interested in gardening, home improvement, and sustainable living, providing handy tips and techniques to become more self-reliant.

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A guide to simpler, greener, and more sustainable living. It provides advice, tips, and step-by-step instructions for hundreds of projects, offering the entire family the tools they need to make the shift toward self-sufficient living. It helps readers learn to dip candles, bake bread, make maple syrup, start a vineyard, and much more.

This compact guide provides advice, tips, and step-by-step instructions for hundreds of projects, offering the entire family the tools they need to make the shift toward self-sufficient living

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This compact guide provides advice, tips, and step-by-step instructions for hundreds of projects, offering the entire family the tools they need to make the shift towards self-sufficient living. Readers will learn to dip candles, bake bread, make maple syrup, start a vineyard, and much more. With special features for young homesteaders, this is an essential family guide to self-sufficient living.

The Ultimate Self-Sufficiency Handbook includes:

  • Bake Pies, Cakes, and Bread
  • Grow Vegetables
  • Raise Chickens
  • Keep Bees
  • Preserve Your Harvest
  • Cure Meats
  • Build a Treehouse
  • Spin Wool
  • Make a Toboggan
  • And Much More!

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781616087104

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 July 2012

Country: United States

Imprint: Skyhorse Publishing

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 816g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Abigail R. GehringΒ is the author or editor of more than a dozen books includingΒ Back to Basics,Β Homesteading,Β The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Living, andΒ Classic Candy. She enjoys writing, gardening, experimenting in the kitchen, and spending time with family.Β She lives with her husband and two children in an 1800s farmstead they are restoring in Marlboro, Vermont.

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