Step-by-Step Projects for Self-Sufficiency

**Build a self-sufficient life with these 60+ photo-illustrated projects for growing and preserving your own food, keeping animals, harnessing alternative energy, and more.** Learning to do more things yourself is healthy, rewarding, and fulfilling, and benefits the environment. Whether you live in the suburbs or have 80 acres in the mountains, *Step-by-step Projects for Self Sufficiency* guides your way with **clear plan drawings**, **precise instructions**, and **detailed photos**. Organized into the categories Chickens & Other Creatures, Nourishing Your Garden, Garden Projects, Food Preparation & Preservation, Homestead Amenities, and Outbuildings & Fences, **projects in this volume include:** - A portable chicken ark - Two types of beehives - Solar cookers - Firewood storage - A potato-growing box - Hoophouses and greenhouses - Raised planting beds - Rain barrels - A cider press - Compost bins - Drying racks - And more With these easy-to-follow projects, make progress, step by step, toward your goal of more independent living.