Homegrown and Handmade A Practical Guide to More Self-Reliant Living OCR BD pdf

Our food system is dominated by industrial agriculture and has become economically and environmentally unsustainable. The incidence of diet-related diseases, including obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, and heart disease, has skyrocketed to unprecedented levels. Whether you have forty acres and a mule or a condo with a balcony, you can do more than you think to safeguard your health, your money, and the planet. Homegrown and Handmade shows how making things from scratch and growing at least some of your own food can help you eliminate artificial ingredients from your diet, reduce your carbon footprint, and create a more authentic life. Whether your goal is increasing your self-reliance or becoming a full-fledged homesteader, it’s packed with answers and solutions to help you:
Take control of your food supply from seed to plate
Raise small and medium livestock for fun, food, and fiber
Rediscover traditional skills to meet more of your family’s needs than you ever thought possible



Homegrown and Handmade: A Practical Guide to More Self-Reliant Living-P2P
New Society Publishers | Deborah Niemann | 2011 | HQ PDF+OCR | ISBN: 0865717028 | 290 pages | 135 Mb