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Homesteading: A Backyard Guide To Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Medicine, And More (2009)

by Abigail R. Gehring(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1602397473 (ISBN13: 9781602397477)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Skyhorse Publishing

review 1: I was very disappointed in this book primarily because the title is so misleading. It is more of a pop-suburban form of more self-sufficient living than actual homesteading. The information is pretty basic and somewhat random (12 pages of food co-ops?, making your own bead jewelry? really?) The pictures are pretty but many doen't evoke backcountry homesteading life to me. A short section dedicated to stress management techniques (yoga and massage) and another on home decorating (hanging wall paper and light sconces) utterly destroyed the entire ridiculous facade of a series homesteading book. Marketed under a different title it may have been better received, but as it is I just can't help feeling cheated.
review 2: I saw this book at the library and checked ... moreit out because i wanted to get more information on raising chickens. Which I found out that it was way too basic of info to be of much help. I really needed detailed instructions or tips to start chicks and keep them healthy. The book told more about how to build a chicken coop... which i didn't need. but overall it was really quite interesting - even soap making recipes and canning foods recipes! less

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