Essential Guide to Self-Sufficient Living

[Skyhorse Publishing] 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! The Essential Guide to Self-Sufficient Living combines the know-how of Back to Basics with the charm of The Farmer