The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It
The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It
Growing vegetables and fruit, keeping animals, preserving food, brewing, baking and basic crafts, scaled from a small garden to a smallholding.
- Why it's here
- The classic manual of self-sufficiency, first published in 1976.
- Keep in mind
- Covers far more than most households will do; the food chapters are the core.
- Publisher
- DK
- Edition
- Current edition
- Format
- Hardback
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