Back to Basics is a book about preparedness and the simple life. This is a how-to book packed with hundreds of projects, step-by-step sequences, charts, tables, diagrams, and illustrations for homesteading hopefuls. Organized into six sections, the first deals with shelter, then energy, raising food, preserving food, home crafts and recreation. The subjects presented lead in logical sequence along all the way stations on the
road to self-sufficiency. An added feature, Sources and Resources, lists suggestions for further reading plus names of suppliers of hard-to-find equipment. This book is my first choice purchase for a beginner who is on the self-reliant journey. I fashioned my first chicken coop and learned my first lessons about beekeeping from this book.
Making the Best of Basics by James Talmage Stevens - In today's world you can't afford to be unprepared. If you want the security of being able to live from your long-term food storage for up to a year regardless of external conditions, this book will show you how. Basics, a standard on in-home food storage and family preparedness, has been expanded, revised and updated with nearly 100 additional pages of charts, tables, recipes and lists of private providers as well as public and government resources. It is the most compresenvie single volume ever compiled on in-home storage.
The Drinking Water Book - A Complete Guide to Safe Drinking Water by Colin Ingram. This book provides the information you need to determine what's in your tap water and take measures to safeguard your health. It evaluates different kinds of filters and bottled waters, describes the cheapest and best ways to have tap water tested, and rates specific products on the market today. Here at last is all the information you need to make intelligent decisions about your drinking water. I especially like the chart on page 106 and 107 called "Water Purifier Performance" which lays out all possible contaminants and all possible generic filtering systems. This makes it easy for you to determine the right water filter for your needs.
Flower Power - Flower Remedies for Healing Body and Soul Through Herbalism, Homeopathy, Aromatherapy, and Flower Essences, by Anne McIntyre - Self-reliance means acquiring the confidence and abilities to heal oneself. This book is an invaluable reference for floral healing capturing the restorative characteristics and therapeutic qualities of 100 of the msot important flowers.
Special features on Bach, Californian and Australian Bush flower essences.
Discussion on the great herbal traditions of China, India, and Native American Indians.
Flower remedies for both physical and emotional ailments.
A Complete Preparedness Package
The One-Day Homesteading Class complete in
6 Dynamic tapes by Kathleen Lamont
of Back to Basics
The Organic Gardening Workshop – Includes Planning your Garden, three ways to build your soil; composting techniques; seeds: starts, harvesting, storing; cloche building, greenhouse, cold frame, raised bed gardening, organic psest control; beekeeping; suggested books; resources and catalogs.3 hours
Long Term Food Storage & Preserving the Harvest Includes six essential food items to store; canning and freezing; grains, beans and berries; seed sprouting; dehydrating; root cellaring; and vacuum sealing.3 hours
Setting Up the Self-Sufficient Homestead – Includes how to choose undeveloped land or land with an existing home. How to find water; alternative energy sources; farm animals: cows, goats, sheep, hoses, pigs, and chickens. Water: finding, pumping, storing, and purifying. Also included, how to put together an herbal medicine kit; the value of aquaculture; what is a CSA, and community living.
3 hours
6 tapes 9 hours
Album $40.00
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VIDEO
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Rainwater Collection Systems - Too often the focus is on water quality instead of water quantity. Water conservation through rainwater collection will be a must as the demands on our water supplies increase. Large or small, rainwater systems provide the best water available and often for no more money than conventional wells. For every inch of rain, you will collect 600 gallons of water for every 1000 square fee of collection surface. If you're planning to build, you might want to include these ideas. Comes with an illustrated booklet.
