num_pages: 304
description: A hands-on text for country living, this book contains detailed advice on everything from selecting a piece of land to raising livestock, from making wine from home-grown fruits to making fences strong and durable. Here is abundant advice from a real country homesteader, a book equally valuable for lifelong farm-dwellers or for the new-to-the-country city folks looking to set down roots.
language: English
title: The Self-Reliant Homestead: A Book of Country Skills
titlecomplete: The Self-Reliant Homestead: A Book of Country Skills
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 59
publisher: Burford Books