The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency - John Seymour

The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the only book that teaches all the skills needed to live independently in harmony with the land harnessing natural forms of energy, raising crops and keeping livestock, preserving foodstuffs, making beer and wine, basketry, carpentry, weaving, and much more. Howto plough a field sow wheat plant corn make hay malt barley rotate crops grow vegetables harness a horse milk a cow slaughter an ox shear a sheep pluck a chicken cure a ham salt beef brew beer make wine bake bread churn butter press cheese pickle onions prune trees can fruit dry herbs keep bees track game set a snare bait a hook skin a rabbit fillet a fish tan a hide sink a well build a barn mend a wall fire bricks dress stone split wood spin flax coil pots weave a basket thatch a roof construct an oven deep freeze store produce make fuel generate light harness the wind collect the rain trap the sun turn the soil follow the seasons respect the land reap the harvest waste nothing stay healthy live well