The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading: An Encyclopedia of Independent Living (The Ultimate Guides)

Can you make your own bread (sans bread machine)? Grow a garden all winter? What can you use instead of toilet paper? What if the power went out for a month? What if the grocery store closed? Can you make a solar oven? Store food without electricity? Raise a water buffalo? Make fine linen from stinging nettle? Make your own shampoo? Deliver a baby? Is it possible to be totally self-sufficient? This massive, full-color book answers all these questions and thousands more and includes checklists, diagrams, and instructions on how to buy a sheep. All of the information included meets these criteria: It is something that anyone can do, without special training. It can be done with relatively few supplies or with stuff you can make yourself. It has been tried and tested—either by the author, the military, doctors, or other homesteaders. The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading is not a storybook or a cookbook. It is a practical guide with nitty-gritty details on everything a homesteader can do, step-by-step with hundreds of color illustrations and pen and ink sketches. You can do it! This book can help.

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Review

"...the kind of book any homesteader or wannabe homesteader should have on their shelf." - Progressive Pioneer

"In a word..."Wow!" - Small Town Living

"A compendium of skills for self-sufficiency and survival, this book contains answers to just about every practical question you might have about homesteading." - Sierra Club's The Green Life

"...it REALLY is the ULTIMATE guide." - The Renegade Farmer

About the Author

Nicole Faires was born in Tucson, Arizona, to a semi-nomadic homeschooling family. After traveling over most of the western U.S., they finally settled in Montana where she grew her own food, made her own clothes and generally ruined her teenage social life. She later moved to Canada and had three precocious girls. She now lives on Vancouver Island where she spends her spare time writing and experimenting with sustainable lifestyles.