num_pages: 176
description: 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!Gehrings books on country living have sold more than 500000 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 The Essential Guide to Self-Sufficient Living combines the know-how of Back to Basics with the charm of The Farmers Almanac . This is the perfect gift for anyone interested in a more self-sufficient greener country lifestyle.
language: English
title: The Essential Guide to Self-Sufficient Living: Vegetable Gardening, Canning and Fermenting, Keeping Chickens, and More
publisher: Good Books