The Complete Idiot's Guide to Self-Sufficient Living: Live a Simpler, Less Dependent Lifestyle-Without Feeling Deprived

by Jerome D. Belanger

Overview

How to be green, save green, grow greens-even turn a thumb green

Self-sufficient living can mean a healthier life, a way to protect the earth, or a way to save money. This guide helps readers find their perfect degree of self reliance in the areas of food, shelter, energy, clothing, and more. For both the urban and rural dweller, it covers gardening, cooking from scratch, preserving food, raising livestock, keeping chickens, generating or supplementing energy, essential tools and equipment, foraging for wild foods, hunting, fishing, and trapping.

• Saving money in today's economy and self-sufficiency go hand-in-hand
• For the growing number of eco-friends considering self-sufficiency
• Existing books focus on either rural or urban self-sufficiency, but this covers both

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101152041
Publisher:	DK
Publication date:	12/01/2009
Series:	COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE Series
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jerome D. Belanger is an author and the founder of several livestock and farming publications, including Countryside & Small Stock Journal, sheep! magazine, and Rabbit World. Formerly an organic farmer and homesteader, Belanger is now retired and maintains a collection of rare conifer trees.