The Essential Guide to Self-Sufficient Living: Vegetable Gardening, Canning and Fermenting, Keeping Chickens, More in Bloomington, MN

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’s Almanac
. This is the perfect gift for anyone interested in a more self-sufficient, greener, country lifestyle.