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

by Abigail Gehring and Abigail R. Gehring

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 gardenRaise chickensChurn butterGrow vegetablesCan tomatoesBrew kombuchaMake shampooRepel garden pestsMilk a goatImprove garden soilMake strawberry-rhubarb jellyFerment vegetablesMake yogurtSprout grainsAnd 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680997114
• ISBN13: 9781680997118
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Good Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.0"