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The self-sufficient life and how to live it : the complete back-to-basics guide

A handbook that explains how to reap the harvest, respect the land, stay healthy, and waste nothing. The first chapters of this book include how to prepare land for crops, grow vegetables and fruit in your garden, rear livestock, and forage in the wild. It also includes information on how to store your own harvest properly, bake bread, make jam, and brew beer to keep your cupboards stocked in the less fertile months. There are ways to generate power from wind, sun, and water, and how to recycle and reduce waste.

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  • "Complete back-to-basics guide"@en

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  • ""A resource guide to self-sufficiency, offring advice on how to cultivate food from the garden, animals, fields, and the wild; discussing dairy operation, food preservation and storage, brewing and wine-making, and energy and waste management; and including recipes and lessons in various crafts.""
  • "A handbook that explains how to reap the harvest, respect the land, stay healthy, and waste nothing. The first chapters of this book include how to prepare land for crops, grow vegetables and fruit in your garden, rear livestock, and forage in the wild. It also includes information on how to store your own harvest properly, bake bread, make jam, and brew beer to keep your cupboards stocked in the less fertile months. There are ways to generate power from wind, sun, and water, and how to recycle and reduce waste."@en
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  • "From the Publisher: The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the only book that teaches all the skills needed to live independently in harmony with the land harnessing natural forms of energy, raising crops and keeping livestock, preserving foodstuffs, making beer and wine, basketry, carpentry, weaving, and much more. This new edition includes 150 new full color illustrations and a special section in which John Seymour the father of the back to basics movement explains the philosophy of self-sufficiency and its power to transform lives and create communities. More relevant than ever in our high-tech world, The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the ultimate practical guide for realists and dreamers alike."@en

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