The homesteading handbook : a back to basics guide to growing your own food, canning, keeping chickens, generating your own energy, crafting, herbal medicine, and more /
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TextPublication details: New York : Skyhorse Pub., 2011.Description: 268 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781616082659
- 1616082658
- Agriculture -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Family farms -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Home economics, Rural -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Sustainable living -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Agriculture -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Agriculture
- Family farms
- Home economics, Rural
- Sustainable living
- Agriculture -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Family farms -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Home economics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Agriculture -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- United States
- 640 22
- S501.2 .G44 2011
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| Standard Loan | Coeur d'Alene Library Adult Nonfiction | Pinehurst Library | Book | 640/GEHRING (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 06/07/2024 | 50610017263224 | ||
| Standard Loan | Rathdrum Library Adult Nonfiction | Rathdrum Library | Book | 640/GEHRING (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 06/04/2024 | 50610020732496 | ||
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Here is a full-color guide to help you and your family to be kinder to Mother Earth, while being kind to your bank account! It doesn't matter where your homestead is located--farm, suburb, or even city--you can learn to grow vegetables, use alternative energy, can and preserve, and more! You, too, can be more self-sufficient!
With the rapid depletion of our planet's natural resources, we would all like to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle. But in the midst of an economic crisis, it's just as important to save money as it is to go green.
Plan, plant, and harvest your own organic home garden. Enjoy fruits and vegetables year-round by canning, drying, and freezing. Build alternate energy devices by hand, such as solar panels or geothermal heat pumps. Differentiate between an edible puffball mushroom and a poisonous amanita. Prepare butternut squash soup using ingredients from your own garden. Conserve water by making a rain barrel or installing an irrigation system. Have fun and save cash by handcrafting items such as soap, potpourri, and paper.
Experience the satisfaction that comes with self-sufficiency, as well as the assurance that you have done your part to help keep our planet green. The Homesteading Handbook is your roadmap to living in harmony with the land.
The home garden. Planning a garden ; Improving your soil ; Conserving water ; Mulching in your garden and yard ; Organic gardening ; Terracing ; Start your own vegetable garden ; Start your own flower garden ; Planting trees ; Container gardening ; Rooftop gardens ; Raised beds ; Growing plants without soil ; Pest and disease management ; Harvesting your garden -- Pantry. Canning ; Drying and freezing ; Edible wild plants and mushrooms ; Make your own foods -- The backyard farm. Chickens ; Ducks ; Turkeys ; Beekeeping ; Goats ; Sheep ; Llamas -- Simple structures for your land. Doghouses ; Birdhouses ; Simple stables ; Poultry houses ; Fences, gates, and pens ; Basic bridges ; Tool sheds and workshops ; Smokehouses ; Root cellars -- Energy. Solar energy ; Wind energy ; Hydropower ; Geothermal energy ; Composting toilets ; Greywater -- Crafts. Handmade candles ; Making your own soap ; Pottery basics ; Knitting ; Tying knots -- Well-being. Herbal medicine ; First aid.
Wherever you live - farm, suburb, or even city - The Homesteading Handbook will show you how to embrace a more self-sufficient lifestyle. Learn to plan, plant, and harvest your own organic garden. Enjoy fruits and vegetables year-round by canning, drying, and freezing. Build and install alternate energy devices such as solar panels or geothermal heat pumps. Who doesn't want to shrink their carbon footprint, save money, and eat fresh, homegrown food whenever possible? Even readers who are very much on the grid will embrace this fully-illustrated guide on the basics of living the good, clean life. From beekeeping to basket weaving to baking, this handy guide has everything you need to experience the satisfaction that comes with self-sufficiency, as well as the assurance that you have done your part to help keep our planet green.--COVER.
Reviews provided by Syndetics
Library Journal Review
Whether people are motivated by economic or social sensibility, self-sufficiency has growing appeal. This revised handbook (originally published in 2009) appears to cover it all but falls short. Group activities such as community gardening and selling handicrafts have been removed from this edition, and the sections that remain have not been updated. There are a lot of ideas offered but no practical instruction. The clip art-like illustrations are simplistic, and the photographs lack useful detail. Carleen Madigan's The Backyard Homestead offers more practical advice with nods toward community regulations and being a good neighbor. (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Abigail R. Gehring is the author or editor of more than a dozen books including Back to Basics , Homesteading , The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Living , and Classic Candy . She enjoys writing, gardening, experimenting in the kitchen, and spending time with family. She lives with her husband and two children in an 1800s farmstead they are restoring in Marlboro, Vermont.There are no comments on this title.