|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||
Frequently Bought Together
Product Details
|
Product Description
Product Description
Now, more than ever, people across the country are turning toward simpler, greener, and quieter ways of livingwhether theyre urbanites or country folk. Following in the footsteps of Back to Basics and Homesteading, this large, fully-illustrated book provides the entire family with the information they need to make the shift toward self-sufficient living. Self-Sufficiency provides tips, advice, and detailed instructions on how to improve everyday life from an environmentally and organic perspective while keeping the focus on the family. Readers will learn how to plant a family garden and harvest the produce; can fruits and vegetables; bake bread and cookies; design interactive and engaging green projects; harness natural wind and solar energy to cook food and warm their homes; boil sap to make maple syrup; and build treehouses, furniture, and more. Also included are natural crafts readers can do with their kids, such as scrapbooking, making potato prints, dipping candles, and constructing seasonal decorations. Whether the goal is to live entirely off the grid or just to shrink their carbon footprints, families will find this book a thorough resource and a great inspiration.
About the Author
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.
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most helpful customer reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Self Sufficiency,
By
This review is from: Self-Sufficiency: A Complete Guide to Baking, Carpentry, Crafts, Organic Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More! (Hardcover)
It is a very well recurshed book, with lots of very helpful tips on how to be self suficient. It has lots of plans a charts on how to make your farm very effient.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Self-In-Sufficient,
By Janet Planet (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Self-Sufficiency: A Complete Guide to Baking, Carpentry, Crafts, Organic Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More! (Hardcover)
This book was a huge disappointment. There are too entirely too many topics to offer any amount of practical or sound advice on. And the very little information that is in here is so very basic it's almost insulting to anyone who'e ever done anything for themselves. And anyone new to any of these living practices would still have zero idea on how to proceed with the bare info provided. I would have rather returned it. Horrible.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta) Amazon.com:
4.1 out of 5 stars (18 customer reviews) 16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A beautifully produced addition to a great series!,
By David Hodges - Published on Amazon.com
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Self-Sufficiency: A Complete Guide to Baking, Carpentry, Crafts, Organic Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More! (Hardcover)
Self-sufficiency is an absorbing paean to traditional crafts and country ways including sections on: Carpentry techniques (without power tools) for making out buildings and bed headboards, tips for raising (and slaughtering) barnyard animals, guides to preserving food, baking, making pottery, tying knots, composting, making your own paper, binding your own books and writing in them with pens you made yourself. I found myself browsing through page after page and getting ideas for projects.There is something for everyone who remembers the ways of our grand-parents and wishes to rediscover skills and techniques that have been all but lost.Sections of this lavishly-illustrated book are: - The Family Garden - The Country Kitchen - Canning and Preserving - Country Crafts - The Barnyard - The Workshop An appendix discusses alternative energy such as wind, solar, and geothermal. And a second appendix is a state-by-state directory of food co-ops. This book is part Boy Scout manual, part Whole Earth Catalog, and part DIY guide, and is sure to stimulate new ideas for projects and for ways that you and your family can be more self-sufficient. SkyHorse publishing has been doing a great job with this series, edited by Abigail Gehring, which started with Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills, Third Edition, continued with 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), and now concludes with Self-Sufficiency. The series is a tremendous resource for anyone seeking to re-connect with the durable ways of self-sufficient living. 12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Book,
By Archer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Self-Sufficiency: A Complete Guide to Baking, Carpentry, Crafts, Organic Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More! (Hardcover)
This was a fantastic book. It included many details about becoming self sufficient with little cost. What I loved the most about it was that as a homeschooling parent the book included many projects that I could include as part of my curriculum.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Perfect GIft!,
By American CowGirl "U.S.A is the best" - Published on Amazon.com
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Self-Sufficiency: A Complete Guide to Baking, Carpentry, Crafts, Organic Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More! (Hardcover)
I bought this item as a Christmas gift for my mother. Upon having the book come to me, I was a little concerned that she wouldn't actually learn that much from it, because self-sufficiency is something she has been learning and doing quite well for the past 20 years, but I loved the pictures and hoped she would be able to gain a little something from it. If nothing else, I thought the pictures were beautiful.The great news is, she has been reading it daily since Christmas and has really learned a lot! I know this book will go super well in her collection of resources, and I figure if she can learn something from it, pretty much anyone will be able to. There is a ssection on cooking - with some wonderful sounding recipes, a small section on animal care, a nice section on gardening and much more. Again, the pictures that are included are amazing! |
|
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
