Homesteading A Backyard Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Medicine, and More

This is a book everyone interested in a "simple life" will love! It teaches you all the basic skills you need to know to become (more) self-sufficient, like creating a garden or urban rooftop-garden, cultivating, preserving or canning food, how to keep farm animals, how to build basic structures like fences, bridges, sheds or tree-houses, how to generate energy, how to use greywater, then all sorts of crafts like knitting, pottery, making soap, candles, baskets or paper, how to make cheese or yogurt, stenciling and wallpapering, and interior design. Even a bit of herbal medicine and how to make your own cosmetics and some relaxing techniques like massages are covered. Just about any technique you might need in daily life you´ll find explained in this book! However, the book has some minor drawbacks: as it was written for the US market, all measures are only given in US units, and the Latin scientific names of the plants and vegetables discussed are missing throughout and the helpful addresses in the appendix are all only US-based ones, but no addresses of international organizations are provided as other books do. All in all, a wonderful book, though, for everyone interested in a sustainable and more natural lifestyle!!