Description

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This compact guide provides advice, tips, and step-by-step instructions for hundreds of projects, offering the entire family the tools they need to make the shift toward self-sufficient living. Readers will learn to dip candles, bake bread, make maple syrup, start a vineyard, and much more. With special features for young homesteaders, this is an essential family guide to self-sufficient living. 
- Bake Pies, Cakes, and Bread

- Grow Vegetables

- Raise Chickens 

- Keep Bees 

- Preserve Your Harvest

- Cure Meats 

- Build a Treehouse

- Spin Wool 

- Make a Toboggan 

- And Much More!

About the Author

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Abigail R. Gehring is the author or editor of more than a dozen books including Back to Basics, Homesteading, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Living, and Classic Candy. She enjoys writing, gardening, experimenting in the kitchen, and spending time with family. She lives with her husband and two children in an 1800s farmstead they are restoring in Marlboro, Vermont.