Self-sufficiency on a shoestring! Recipes for a new, fun and free lifestyle
Book - 2012
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- Published
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Cincinnati, Ohio :
Betterway Home
c2012.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- 191 p. : col. ill ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781440318757
- 6. Introduction
- 8. Discussion Points
- Varieties of sustainable living
- Arrangements and special exceptions
- The recession
- Saving the planet
- Food
- Quality of life
- 36. Adventure
- Your options
- Urban self-sufficiency
- Town and village self-sufficiency
- Isolated off-grid self-sufficiency
- The ultimate self-sufficiency scenario
- An autonomous house
- Extreme shoestring self-sufficiency
- 66. Food
- No-dig self-sufficiency
- The no-dig method
- Vegetable-growing basics
- Sowing, potting, and planting
- How to deal with pests and diseases
- Brassicas
- Salad leaves
- Stalks and shoots
- Pods and seeds
- Onions and relatives
- Roots and tubers
- Fruiting vegetables
- Herbs
- Soft fruit and tree fruit
- Storing and preserving food
- Homemade wine
- Beekeeping
- Keeping chickens
- Keeping pigs
- Keeping goats
- 142. Recipts
- Vegetarian meals from the garden
- Winter meals from the garden
- Making chutney
- Making jam
- 160. Power
- Shoestring insulation
- Shoestring photovoltaic panels
- Solar water heaters
- Shoestring wind turbines
- Passive solar gain
- 178. Lifestyle
- Working from home
- Trading and gifting
- Reduce, reuse, recycle
- Make-do-and-mend
- One last thought
- 190. Resources
- 188. Index