Beginner’s Guide to Self Sufficiency Projects for the Home: Grow Edibles, Raise Animals, Live Off The Grid & DIY

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Build a self-sufficient life with these 40+ photo-illustrated projects for growing and preserving your own food, keeping animals, harnessing alternative energy, and more.
Learning to do more things yourself is healthy, rewarding, and fulfilling, and benefits the environment. Whether you live in the suburbs or have 80 acres in the mountains, this new and affordable edition adapted from the best-selling Step-by-Step Projects for Self-Sufficiency guides your way with clear plan drawings, precise instructions, and detailed photos.
Beginner’s Guide to Self-Sufficiency Projects for the Home is organized into the categories Chickens & Other Creatures, Nourishing Your Garden, Garden Projects, Food Preparation & Preservation, Homestead Amenities, and Outbuildings & Fences, with projects that include:
  A portable chicken arkTwo types of beehivesSolar cookersFirewood storageA potato-growing boxHoophouses and greenhousesRaised planting bedsRain barrelsA cider pressCompost binsDrying racksAnd more
With these easy-to-follow projects, make progress, step by step, toward your goal of more independent living.
Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Shoe Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 17, 2024
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0760391009
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0760391006
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 0.4 x 9.2 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #523,145 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #217 in Outdoor & Recreational Area Gardening #1,015 in Sustainable Living #55,861 in Self-Help (Books)
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