This practical guide to independent living offers everything readers want to know about self-reliance, preparedness, survival, and sustainable homesteading.
The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading is a practical guide with nitty-gritty details on everything a homesteader can do, step-by-step with hundreds of color illustrations and pen and ink sketches.

You can do it This book will show you how to:

• Make your own bread?
• Grow a garden all winter
• Make a solar oven
• Store food without electricity
• Raise a water buffalo
• Make fine linen from stinging nettle
• Make your own shampoo
• Deliver a baby

Yes, you, too, can be totally self-sufficient This massive, full-color book answers all these questions and thousands more and includes checklists, diagrams, and instructions. All the information meets these criteria: It is something that anyone can do, without special training. It can be done with relatively few supplies or with stuff you can make yourself. It has been tried and tested--either by the author, the military, doctors, or other homesteaders.