Self-Sufficiency Handbook: Your Complete Guide to a Self-Sufficient Home, Garden, and Kitchen (CompanionHouse Books) Sustainable Methods for Growing Food, Raising Farm Animals, Solar, and Wind Energy - Softcover

Alan Bridgewater; Gill Bridgewater

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9781620082348: Self-Sufficiency Handbook: Your Complete Guide to a Self-Sufficient Home, Garden, and Kitchen (CompanionHouse Books) Sustainable Methods for Growing Food, Raising Farm Animals, Solar, and Wind Energy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1620082349 ISBN 13: 9781620082348
Publisher: CompanionHouse Books, 2017

Synopsis

Make a self-sufficient home!


  • Grow your own food with sustainable garden designs and seasonal plans
  • Learn how to sow, plant, care for, harvest, use, and store your produce
  • A-Z plant directory for 70 vegetables, fruits, and herbs
  • Sustainable methods for solar and wind energy, raising farm animals, beekeeping, and more
  • Beautiful photography, illustrations, and diagrams accompany advice and instructions

This homesteader's handbook is essential reading for anyone considering a shift to a more self-sufficient lifestyle, no matter how small the change!

Worried about ever-rising fuel bills and longing for the day when you can be off-grid and independent? Anxious about the quality of the food you eat and planning to go organic? Yearning to get back to simpler ways but don't know where to start? Self-Sufficiency Handbook will teach you how to survive off your own land!

Authors Alan and Gill Bridgewater cover the ecological gamut, from geothermal heating to crop rotation to soap making. They answer important questions like how much land is really needed to be self-sufficient, whether or not to depend entirely on natural forms of energy, and which farm animals will best meet your needs. There's practical information on building an insulated flue pipe chimney, identifying edible wild plants, and composting with worms — as well as recipes for jams, rhubarb wine, cheeses, and more.

Self-Sufficiency Handbook is an inspirational yet practical introduction to a more sustainable way of living, packed with full-color photographs, helpful illustrations, and diagrams. Step-by-step-instructions cover everything from sustainable home improvements like fitting a wind turbine to making honey from your own beehives, keeping animals, and growing, using, and preserving your own produce.

Learn how to cut your living expenses and live off of your own land with Self-Sufficiency Handbook!

"This book shows that self-sufficiency is not only better for the planet — it's cheaper and more rewarding!"
—Green Rewards/Sustainability Advisory Panel

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About the Author

Alan and Gill Bridgewater have gained an international reputation as producers of gardening and DIY books on a range of subjects, including ponds and patios, stone and brickwork, decks and decking, and garden design. They have written a wide range of highly successful books and contributed to several international magazines. They live in Rye, East Sussex.

From the Back Cover

"Alan and Gill Bridgewater are a writing dynamo team."

~Canadian Woodworking & Home Improvement

If you're seeking to make sustainable changes to your daily habits, reduce your carbon footprint, and generally shift to a greener way of living, Self-Sufficiency Handbook is essential reading. Authors Alan and Gill Bridgewater's off-grid-living experience and expertise runs the ecological gamut from geothermal heating systems and crop rotation to soap-making and livestock husbandry as they address topics important to anyone who yearns to make back-to-basics lifestyle changes. Whether you're an urban dweller who wants to adopt certain aspects of a greener lifestyle or you're ready to make the leap to living off-grid — or you fit somewhere in between — you'll find the Bridgewaters' advice, along with the full-color photos and helpful illustrations, in Self-Sufficiency Handbook invaluable.

Inside Self-Sufficiency Handbook:
  • Understand the positive aspects of self-sufficiency, including: ⬥ adopting a greener lifestyle ⬥ cutting living costs ⬥ eating well ⬥ reducing stress
  • Discover how to choose and create a self-sufficient home and make sustainable home improvements
  • Explore a wide range of topics, including: ⬥ installing a wind turbine ⬥ making honey from your own beehives ⬥ using alternative heat and energy sources ⬥ raising farm animals
  • Information-packed A-to-Z directories for 70 of the most popular vegetables, fruits, and herbs. Learn how to: ⬥ sow ⬥ plant ⬥ care for ⬥ harvest ⬥ use ⬥ store your produce

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Publisher
CompanionHouse Books
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1620082349
ISBN 13 
9781620082348
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
240
Rating
  • 3.82 out of 5 stars
    130 ratings by Goodreads