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    The Ultimate Self-Sufficiency Handbook: A Complete Guide to Baking, Crafts, Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More

    The Ultimate Self-Sufficiency Handbook: A Complete Guide to Baking, Crafts, Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More

    by Abigail R. Gehring


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      ISBN-13: 9781620873472
    • Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
    • Publication date: 06/01/2012
    • Series: Self-Sufficiency Series
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 272
    • Sales rank: 44,262
    • File size: 39 MB
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    Abigail R. Gehring is the editor of Back to Basics, Homesteading,
    and Self-Sufficiency, and author of Odd Jobs and Dangerous
    Jobs. 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 in New York City and Windham,
    Vermont.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction v

    Part 1 The Family Garden

    Planning a Garden 2

    Improving Your Soil 9

    Planting Your Garden 19

    Start Your Own vegetables Garden 23

    Growing Fruit Bushes and Trees 25

    Growing and Threshing Grains 30

    Container Gardening 33

    Raised Beds 38

    Pest and Disease Management 41

    Harvesting Your Garden 47

    Part 2 The Country Kitchen

    Baking Bread 52

    Maple Sugaring 61

    Making Sausage 64

    The Home Dairy 72

    Canning 82

    Drying and Freezing 155

    Part 3 Country Crafts

    Spring 166

    Summer 175

    Autumn 184

    Winter 196

    Part 4 The Barnyard

    Chickens 208

    Ducks 212

    Turkeys 216

    Rabbits 220

    Beekeeping 223

    Goats 228

    Sheep 233

    Llamas 237

    Cows 241

    Pigs 245

    Butchering 249

    Sources and Resources 254

    Index 259

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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 toward 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. 

    - Bake Pies, Cakes, and Bread

    - Grow Vegetables yy Raise Chickens 

    - Keep Bees 

    - Preserve Your Harvest

    - Cure Meats 

    - Build a Treehouse

    - Spin Wool 

    - Make a Toboggan 

    - And Much More!

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