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• ISBN 10: 0744024366
• ISBN 13: 9780744024364
• Author: Dick Strawbridge

Find your route to a more sustainable lifestyle with Dick Strawbridge and his son, James. We can all take steps to reduce our carbon footprint and be more self-sufficient. For some, that might mean heading to the countryside to live off the land. For the rest of us, the reality might involve smaller, but no less important, lifestyle changes: cutting back on plastic or food waste, growing vegetables, preserving meat and fish, preparing jams and chutneys, baking sourdough bread, making your own plant-based milk, or keeping a chicken or two. Dick and James Strawbridge know what it’s like to make these changes. Between them, they’ve lived on a smallholding, in a terraced house, and even a chateau. In this updated edition of Self-Sufficiency for the 21st Century, they share everything they’ve learned and give you the tools you need for a more rewarding and environmentally conscious life.

Table of contents:

Introduction

Safety warnings

NEW WAY TO SELF-SUFFICIENCY

What are the basics for life?

Self-sufficiency vs sustainability

How much land do you need?

The cycle of the seasons

Urban opportunities

The urban plot

Suburban expansion

The suburban plot

Rural adventure

The small farm

THE HOME

In the house

Taking stock

Conserving energy at home

Using passive solar gain

Improving home infrastructure

Building an earth shelter

Building with straw bales

Setting up a workshop

Working with wood

Eco-kitchens

Make an earth oven

Greener cleaners

Energy and waste

Understanding electricity

Renewable energy options

Using solar PV panels

Using solar thermal systems

Harnessing wind energy

Harnessing water energy

Building a waterwheel

Using a hydraulic ram pump

Conserving water

Collecting your own water

Using sand filters and reed beds

Using biofuels

Using an anaerobic digester

Reusing, reusing, and recycling

Mending

THE YARD

Productivity

Approaches to growing

Growing with hydroponics

Achieving a productive plot

Set up a greenhouse irrigation system

Growing under cover

Build a cold frame

Making a heat sink

Encourage wildlife

Gardening in harmony with nature

Growing in urban spaces

Build a raised bed

Joining a community garden

Setting up a well-equipped shed

What to grow

Sowing and planting

Problem solving

Vegetables to grow

Pruning, training, and grafting

Fruit and nuts to grow

Storing the harvest

Drying fruit, herbs, and vegetables

Make a solar dryer

Preserving the harvest

Making pickles and chutneys

Making jam and jelly

Fermenting

Herbs to grow

Edible flowers

Foraging for wild plants

Wild plants to forage

Grow your own mushrooms

Herbal tinctures

Making botanical drinks

Making wine

Making cider

Working large areas

Observing, planning, and designing

Creating boundaries

Fodder crops to grow

Unusual crops to grow

Storing crops on a larger scale

Baking bread

Making flour and alternative milks

Managing a woodlot

Green woodworking

Wood-fired cooking and smoking

Making charcoal

Working with willow

Animal husbandry

Keeping chickens

Build a chicken ark

Keeping turkeys

Keeping ducks and geese

Keeping pigs

Making sausages and salami

Making bacon and brining ham

Keeping cattle

Making butter and kefir milk

Making your own cheese

Keeping sheep

Keeping goats

Catching and preparing fish

Curing and smoking fish

Keeping bees

Using honey and propolis

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