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Author Belanger, Jerome D.

Title The complete idiot's guide to self-sufficient living / by Jerome D. Belanger.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Alpha Books, ©2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 379 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-363) and index.
Summary You long to live a more self-reliant lifestyle, less dependent on fast food, consumerism, and other undesirable aspects of modern civilization. How do you begin to change your corner of the world without giving up everything you know and love?
Contents A rational approach to self-sufficient living. What's it all about? ; The new self-sufficiency: doing without ; The philosophy of self-sufficient living ; Bloom where you're planted ; Your homestead business -- The kitchen: heart of the homestead. Scratch the itch to cook from scratch ; Conservation in the kitchen ; The well-stocked pantry ; Look what I made! -- The self-sufficient gardener. Gardening fundamentals ; The dirt on garden soil ; What's your (garden) type? -- How does your garden grow? ; Tools of the trade ; Saving seeds ; Adam and Eve did it -- Meat, milk, and eggs. The truth about meat ; Chickens in your backyard ; Raising rabbits for food ; Dairy goats ; More small livestock -- Shelter and its appurtenances. Self-sufficient shelter ; Cool ways to keep warm ; Your water footprint ; The conservation of energy -- A plan for the future. Looking back, moving forward ; Let your imagination soar.
Note Print version record.
Subject Self-reliant living.
Alternative lifestyles.
Human ecology.
Home economics, Rural.
Agriculture.
Country life.
Agriculture. (OCoLC)fst00801355
Alternative lifestyles. (OCoLC)fst00806150
Country life. (OCoLC)fst00881405
Home economics, Rural. (OCoLC)fst00959269
Human ecology. (OCoLC)fst00962941
Self-reliant living. (OCoLC)fst01736333
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Self-sufficient living
Other Form: Print version: Belanger, Jerome D. Complete idiot's guide to self-sufficient living. New York, N.Y. : Alpha Books, ©2009 9781592579457 (DLC) 2009929400 (OCoLC)311775997
ISBN 9781101150757 (electronic bk.)
1101150750 (electronic bk.)
9781101152041 (electronic bk.)
1101152044 (electronic bk.)
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