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The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency is a book for all seasons. Whether you live in town or country, on a farm or in a cottage, in a house with a garden or a flat with a window-box, this book has something for you. If you want to bake your own bread, brew your own beer, make your own cheese, pickle your own onions, this book will show you how. If you want to make hay, milk a cow, smoke a ham, design a dairy, convert to solar energy, this book will show you how. If you just want to grow your own vegetables, bottle your own fruit, dry your own herbs, this book will demonstrate exactly what to do.

The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency is an invaluable manual, packed with illustrations, and every illustration tells its own story, shows you what you need and how to do it.

The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency in .epub

• plough a field
• sow wheat
• plant corn
• make hay
• malt barley
• rotate crops
• grow vegetables
• harness a horse
• milk a cow
• slaughter an ox
• shear a sheep
• pluck a chicken
• cure a ham
• salt beef
• brew beer
• make wine
• bake bread
• churn butter
• press cheese
• pickle onions
• prune trees
• can fruit
• dry herbs
• keep bees
• track game
• set a snare
• bait a hook
• skin a rabbit
• fillet a fish
• tan a hide
• sink a well
• build a barn
• mend a wall
• fire bricks
• dress stone
• split wood
• spin flax
• coil pots
• weave a basket
• thatch a roof
• construct an oven
• deep freeze
• store produce
• make fuel
• generate light
• harness the wind
• collect the rain
• trap the sun
• turn the soil
• follow the seasons
• respect the land
• reap the harvest
• waste nothing
• stay healthy
• live well.