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The Homesteading Handbook: A Back To Basics Guide To Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Medicine, And More (2011)

by Abigail R. Gehring(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1616082658 (ISBN13: 9781616082659)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Skyhorse Publishing

review 1: OMG this book is self-sufficiency pr0n. I was already getting a bit nutsy about making local, sustainable food, making my own bread, learning to make my own cheese. This book makes me want to raise my own chickens and goats, make my own yogurt, basically move to the country, start a farm, and do my own everything. All with gorgeous pictures! No room for details on anything--if you actually want to do any of this stuff, get a book on it. But lots of fun for dreaming.
review 2: This is the worst how-to book for homesteading/gardening/raising livestock/building/etc that I have ever read. You will get more useful information by getting a children's picture book on 'Clifford Goes to the Farm' than from this book. Information here is either sketchy, not there, o... moreutdated, or just plain wrong. In the first aid section (and I'm still not sure why a homesteading book has a first aid section), it tells you how to put on a tourniquet! That's right next to the picture from the 1939 Boy Scout Handbook on how to carry an injured person. Really?!? Oh, and if you're going to make yogurt - good luck following the instructions here. I've made yogurt for years and can tell you that the recipe/instructions are wrong and bordering on stupid. Same for the build-your-own-barn 'instructions' and the home canning/freezing guides. There are dozens of books out there that can help you get started homesteading. If the apocalypse comes and you can only grab one how-to-survive-and-raise-your-own-everything book, hope and pray that it's not this book. less

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