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The Essential Guide to Self-Sufficient Living: Vegetable Gardening, Canning and Fermenting, Keeping Chickens, and More
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ISBN10: 1680997114
ISBN13: 9781680997118
Publisher: Good Books
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 176
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.80 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781680997118
Publisher: Good Books
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 176
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.80 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Grow your own vegetables and herbs, indoors in containers or outside in a garden. Raise chickens or goats. Build a beehive. Make your own nontoxic cleaning sprays. And more! Gehring's books on country living have sold more than 500,000 copies. In this book, she offers a guide to homesteading skills that is as charming as it is practical. Full of sweet illustrations and gorgeous photographs, step-by-step instructions for essential skills such as building a chicken coop are interspersed with country lore and old-fashioned tips and tricks. Readers will learn how to:
- Container garden
- Raise chickens
- Churn butter
- Grow vegetables
- Can tomatoes
- Brew kombucha
- Make shampoo
- Repel garden pests
- Milk a goat
- Improve garden soil
- Make strawberry-rhubarb jelly
- Ferment vegetables
- Make yogurt
- Sprout grains
- And more!
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