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 by Abigail R. Gehring

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!

• Paperback
• 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 edible puffball mushroom and poisonous amanita
• Prepare butternut squash soup using ingredients from your own garden
• Conserve water by making rain barrel or installing irrigation system
• Have fun and save cash by handcrafting items such as soap, potpourri and paper
• 272 pages
• Dimensions: 9.9"H x 6.9"W

ISBN: 9781616082659