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Homesteading: A Back to Basics Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Medicine, and More (Back to Basics Guides)
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Item Description...
Overview
Shares recommendations for identifying and incorporating green lifestyle choices, covering practices ranging from container gardening and keeping chickens to using rainwater and supporting sustainable restaurants.
Publishers Description
Who doesn't want to shrink their carbon footprint, save money, and eat homegrown food whenever possible? Even readers who are very much on the grid will embrace this large, fully-illustrated guide on the basics of living the good, clean life. It's written with country lovers in mind--even those who currently live in the city.
Whether you live in the city, the suburbs, or even the wilderness, there is plenty you can do to improve your life from a green perspective. Got sunlight? Start container gardening. With a few plants, fresh tomatoes, which then become canned tomato sauce, are a real option. Reduce electricity use by eating dinner by candlelight (using homemade candles, of course). Learn to use rainwater to augment water supplies. Make your own soap and hand lotion. Consider keeping chickens for the eggs. From what to eat to supporting sustainable restaurants to avoiding dry cleaning, this book offers information on anything a homesteader needs--and more. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 456
Dimensions: Length: 0.75" Width: 10.75" Height: 8.5"
Weight: 3.15 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Nov 1, 2009
ISBN 1602397473
EAN 9781602397477
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Availability 27 units.
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 | Excellent Resource For Do-It-Yourselfers May 22, 2010 |
| Homesteading is extremely relevant, as we pursue our efforts to adopt a more "green" lifestyle on a worldwide scale. The reader will find a host of useful ideas in this book, ranging from growing your own food, canning fruits and vegetables, smoking meats, designing and erecting wind turbines, the art of keeping bees, constructing poultry houses and even solar and thermal heating systems. Photographs and designs will spark the reader's imagination and, hopefully, lead to a better and cleaner Earth for us all. | | |  | Extremely helpful and informative! May 4, 2010 |
| This has been such a good book, that I'm extremely glad I bought it. My husband and I just bought a 7 acre farm and the information presented here is very useful. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to know more about small time or hobby farming as well as a myriad of other topics! Enjoy! | | | | Homesteading May 4, 2010 |
| This is a wonderful book that I highly recommend to anyone who wants to get started with their own homestead. Not only is the book attractive with great pics but also has great info that I will refer to over and over, all the way from growing and raising your own food to energy and more. | | |  | done bother Jan 13, 2010 |
If you are looking for real information on homesteading, this is NOT the book. At best the information is very general and almost worthless.
The author has information on buying food from CSAs, Co-ops,and farmers markets. How about more info on growing your own food. There's nothing on raising beef or pork.
In the section on dairy goats, she speaks about the breed La Mancha, yet the photo is NOT a LaMancha. The goat in the photo has ears, La Manchas don't have ears. Also although goats will eat some grass, they are poor grazers.
In the section of llamas there is a least one photo of alpacas.
In the sheep section, the author tells the reader to milk a sheep you must pull the sheep up to the fence so it can't get away, then she has you milking the animal from the front. What? I have all these animals, plus more.That's not even close to how milking is done.
I don't need a homesteading book to tell me how to hang wallpaper, or how to use Feng Shui to decorate my home.
The photos used for growing in a greenhouse are greenhouses that none of us can afford to buy. The same with the chapter on energy and the photos for solar panels and wind turbines.
Where's the info on building with recycled material?
This is a book for yuppies with lots of money who want to play "homestead."
This author does not know what she is writing about. There are many more worthwhile books out there.
| | | | Fantastic resource! Jan 11, 2010 |
| Learn about everything from gardening and raising chickens to making your own energy. This book is a must have! | | | Write your own review about Homesteading: A Back to Basics Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Medicine, and More (Back to Basics Guides)
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