Get ready to be self-sufficient. Whether tackling the garden, raising animals, learning more about alternative energy, or bettering your storage and preservation, Step-by-Step Projects for Self-Sufficiency is the perfect starting point.
Step-by-step instructions and photos will guide you through how to make over 60 complete projects. After all, DIY projects are more fun (and generally easier) when you approach them with helpful aides and tools you made yourself.
Projects in this new volume include:
-A portable chicken ark
-Two types of beehives
-Solar cookers
-Firewood storage
-A potato growing box
-Hoophouses and greenhouses
-Raised planting beds
-Rainbarrels
-A cider press
-Compost bins
-Drying racks
With its clear plan drawings, precise instructions and detailed photos, Step-by-step Projects for Self Sufficiency makes DIY easier than ever.
Author(s): DIY Editors of Cool Springs Press
Publisher: Cool springs press
Year: 2017
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
SECTION 1: CHICKENS & OTHER CREATURES
01 Chicken Ark
02 Chicken Coop
03 Brooder Box
04 Large Farm Animals
05 Top-Bar Beehive
06 Traditional Beehive
SECTION 2: NOURISHING YOUR GARDEN
07 Compost Bin
08 Two-Bin Composter
09 Basement Vermiculture Bin
10 Soil Sifter
11 Collecting Rainwater
12 Channeling Rainwater
13 Sub-Irrigated Planter
SECTION 3: GARDEN PROJECTS
14 Starting & Transplanting Seedlings
15 Potato-Growing Box
16 Octagon Strawberry Planter & Cover
17 Vertical Planter
18 Clothesline Trellis
19 Teepee Trellis
20 Raised Bed with Removable Trellis
21 Pallet Planter
22 Raised Beds
23 Container Gardening
24 Cold Frame
25 Jumbo Cold Frame
26 Planting Trees
SECTION 4: FOOD PREPARATION & PRESERVATION
27 Preserving Your Bounty
28 Solar Dryer
29 Solar Fruit Dryer
30 Herb-Drying Rack
31 Root Vegetable Rack
32 Root Cellar
33 Cider Press
34 Solar Oven
SECTION 5: HOMESTEAD AMENITIES
35 Firewood Shelter
36 Frame Loom
37 Solar Still
38 Manual Laundry Washer
39 Solar Heat
40 Wine Racks for Winemakers
SECTION 6: OUTBUILDINGS & FENCES
41 Greenhouse
42 Hoophouse
43 Metal Kit Shed
44 Pole Barn
45 Post-and-Board Fence
46 Split-Rail Fence
47 Chain-Link Fence
Resources
Credits
Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
R
S
T
V
W
Z
Copyright
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Chapter 1: ‘I’m thinking’ – Oh, but are you?
Chapter 2: Renegade perception
Chapter 3: The Pushbacker sting
Chapter 4: ‘Covid’: The calculated catastrophe
Chapter 5: There is no ‘virus’
Chapter 6: Sequence of deceit
Chapter 7: War on your mind
Chapter 8: ‘Reframing’ insanity
Chapter 9: We must have it? So what is it?
Chapter 10: Human 2.0
Chapter 11: Who controls the Cult?
Chapter 12: Escaping Wetiko
Postscript
Appendix: Cowan-Kaufman-Morell Statement on Virus Isolation
Bibliography
Index
