The Ultimate Self-Sufficiency Handbook: A Complete Guide to Baking, Crafts, Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More (Self-Sufficiency Series)

This is the perfect first book for anyone who is looking to understand how to live off the grid, or self-sufficiently. Right now, I'm trying to decide which book I should get next to continue to learn on. Maybe I can find a book on all the companion plants for vegetables or better yet, maybe I can write one.

He loves it!

I spent a lot of time with one of my aunts growing up. Her and her husband were "live off the land" kind of people. But I was young and didn't really participate so much in their homesteading lifestyle. Now that I'm older, I am trying to live a more organic lifestyle. This book is one of the many that I have found to be helpful in my planning. Every new page, every new idea brings me new excitement at the prospect of having the kind of life that I grew up seeing as a kid. I may not have understood it then, but I definitely see limitless benefits as an adult.

I liked this book. I consider myself knowledgeable in most of the areas that were covered. I have 50 years experience in canning, baking bread and 60 years in vegetable gardening. I also have raised most of the farm animals. So to find a book that teaches me something new is fun and a real delight. For example: under the canning section I liked the needed information which is contained in boxes entitled QUANTITY. This book has the amount needed for a full canner of either quarts or pints. How original. This would be a great book for a beginner and I enjoyed it as well.

I liked the book and the way the information was presented. Covered the basics very well. Even though I have gardened and canned for many years, I found useful tips and some new things to try.

A year ago, I stumbled onto this author and she made me think and take a close look at the world around me. Highly recommend for the beginner looking of a cleaner more fulfilling way.

Simply a great book

Great book! Had a bit of everything needed to get going on the path to do it yourself food weather your growing a tomato plant on your balcony or planning on running a full homestead. Shows you how to do it no matter what your money situation is.

Really great book, packed with information. The only reason why I took of a star is because all of the measurements are in American units and being from the Uk it was a little annoying having to convert. Other than that it's a great book, written nicely and not too overbearing with information. Clear and concise pictures, examples, measurements and the pages are not too thick, so it's easy to carry around. Everything you need to know about being self-sufficient is in this book. Would recommend.

Not very in depth. I also wouldn't call most of these skills "self-sufficiency" skills, they're home-making crafts.