Sustainable Living

Foraging is what people do when they choose to go looking for their own food in nature rather than buying it in a supermarket.

For those looking for the greenest way to feed themselves, foraging is definitely the answer. When you forage for food there are no factories involved in the production of the food you eat. In many cases the food needn’t even be cooked, which means that you will be saving on energy in that way too. Foraging is for conscientious people who want to make a difference in any way they can, while saving money and having fun at the same time. This book will teach you what you need to know to get out there and start foraging right away.

As with all Simple Self-Sufficiency titles, this book is written in an interesting and readable manner, without all the "fluff". We aim to publish books in a way that will deliver to you all of the necessary information without going into an extreme amount of detail. We guarantee you will come out with an expanded knowledge of the topic, from a source you can trust, without having to take days to read about it. Enjoy!

It sounds like a gross exaggeration to describe root cellaring as revolutionary, but the effects it could have on your diet and lifestyle would be nothing short of life-changing. This humble, age-old idea of simply keeping your food underground can be the basis for a more sustainable diet and lifestyle, all the while making healthy eating both more convenient and much more affordable.

Let this book serve as a quick guide for you to get started building your own root cellar. We will lay out everything from how to plan your root cellar, various designs, what materials you will need and actually how to build a root cellar.

As with all Simple Self-Sufficiency titles, this book is written in an interesting and readable manner, without all the "fluff". We aim to publish books in a way that will deliver to you all of the necessary information without going into an extreme amount of detail. We guarantee you will come out with an expanded knowledge of the topic, from a source you can trust, without having to take days to read about it. Enjoy!

Wouldn't you love to have one product that can do a gazillion different things around your house? Something that can supplement, if not outright replace, all those bottles, boxes, tubes and jars taking up space in your kitchen and bath? Something that you can use to eliminate dirt and pests, yet is safe for the environment?

Something cheap?

Guess what? You already do! Chances are there's a box of it sitting in your pantry right now, underused and underappreciated.

It's time to change all that with Baking Soda Solutions.

Organized into 12 information-packed chapters, this compendium of tips, hints, and practical uses is all you'll ever need to use baking soda to its full potential. Here's some of what you'll find inside:

• Over 200 ways to use baking soda indoors, outdoors, in sickness and in health.
• Cooking tips that'll bring them back for more.
• Pet problems solved with no ill effects.
• "Manly" ways to use baking soda on the car, in the shop, and in the locker room.
• How to make a "bubbling ball bouncer" for the kids, and other playful ideas.
• Cut your craving for sweets with this one simple trick!

You'll be hard-pressed to find a product that's so all-around-useful as baking soda. Let Baking Soda Solutions show you how to put that "power powder" to work today!

Chickens are great, low maintenance pets. They don’t need to be brushed, walked, or entertained. Happy chickens just need you to gather their eggs once a day, feed and water them a couple times a week, and change their roost bedding once a month. You can feed them kitchen scraps, eat their eggs, and use their bedding for compost. You won’t find a more environmentally friendly pet. If you already know all this, then you know that learning how to do this can be of great benefit to you and your family.

In this book you will learn all the ins and outs raising chickens in your backyard, including information about different breeds, how to build a chicken coop and chicken run, what a chicken tractor is, and more helpful details about how you can get started in this endeavor.

As with all Simple Self-Sufficiency titles, this book is written in an interesting and readable manner, without all the "fluff". We aim to publish books in a way that will deliver to you all of the necessary information without going into an extreme amount of detail. We guarantee you will come out with expanded knowledge of the topic without you having to take days to read it. Enjoy!

Raising your own chickens, whether raising chickens for eggs or for the meat, is something that more and more people are getting involved in, and with good reason. Food straight from the source, whether that be keeping chickens for eggs, or growing vegetables, is always preferable to anything that has been lying on a supermarket shelf for who knows how long.
Keeping chickens healthy and productive is the aim of this information book, and through my own and others experiences in keeping poultry of many kinds, I hope the information contained here will be invaluable to your own chicken keeping ambitions.
What you will find in this publication:
• Information on some of the best chickens to keep for a bumper egg harvest.
• How to build a coop that is vermin free, and all about vermin and predator control.
• How to spot signs of ill health in your chickens and how to keep them healthy and productive.
• How to keep chickens over the winter so you they will still lay eggs – no matter how harsh the conditions.
• General feeding and care of your poultry.

Homesteading is a way of life, a philosophy put into practice. Becoming a homesteader means deciding that self-sufficiency is the most important thing in life - and then living it. It’s about reducing reliance on producers and manufacturers of all kinds. How? Grow and process your own food so you don’t have to buy it. Gather and store your own energy so you don’t need to be connected to the grid. Make your own products and trade with neighbors for things you don’t have. Spend your time working hard, but working for yourself, with your family. Homesteading is a commitment to an ideal and it’s often a shared journey that a family takes together, with trials and errors, small failures and great successes. Most importantly, it’s about making the effort to be more self-sufficient.

Homesteading today can take on many different forms. It might mean having an extensive backyard garden with greenhouse, chicken coop, and root cellar, all smack dab in the middle of a city. Or maybe it’s a more traditional set-up on a remote rural property, off the grid, living a life of back-to-the-land self-sufficiency on an acreage hundreds of miles from the nearest town.

Whatever vision you have for your homestead, there’s a lot to learn but with a little preparation and planning and the motivation to make your life more self-sufficient, it is attainable. This book takes you through a bit of the background of homesteading and gives you plenty of good dirt-under-your-fingernails tips on how to get started, including information on water, energy, permaculture, food preservation, raising animals, and more.

As with all Simple Self-Sufficiency titles, this book is written in an interesting and readable manner, without all the "fluff". We aim to publish books in a way that will deliver to you all of the necessary information without going into an extreme amount of detail. We guarantee you will come out with expanded knowledge of the topic without you having to take days to read it. Enjoy!

Do you dream of homesteading but only have a bit of time each weekend to putter in the garden? This ebook series introduces a simple but powerful project for each weekend of the year to start you off on the path to self-sufficiency. June projects include:

Making a small worm bin (and how to use worm castings and tea in the garden)

Surveying your site (to discover natural paths and your yard's potential)

Learning about nutrition (and unlearning everything you thought you knew)

Calculating your real hourly wage (to find out if your job's driving you into debt)

This ebook is also appropriate for December in the southern hemisphere.

Start a mini farm on a quarter acre or less, provide 85 percent of the food for a family of four and earn an income.

Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family’s food on just a quarter acre—and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require. Even if you have never been a farmer or a gardener, this book covers everything you need to know to get started: buying and saving seeds, starting seedlings, establishing raised beds, soil fertility practices, composting, dealing with pest and disease problems, crop rotation, farm planning, and much more. Because self-sufficiency is the objective, subjects such as raising backyard chickens and home canning are also covered along with numerous methods for keeping costs down and production high. Materials, tools, and techniques are detailed with photographs, tables, diagrams, and illustrations.

Nutritionist and beauty expert Kimberly Snyder helps dozens of A-list celebrities get red-carpet ready—and now you're getting the star treatment. Kim used to struggle with coarse hair, breakouts and stubborn belly fat, until she traveled the world, learning age-old beauty secrets. She discovered that what you eat is the ultimate beauty product, and she's developed a powerful program that rids the body of toxins so you can look and feel your very best. With just a few simple diet changes, you will:

• Get a youthful, radiant glow
• Banish acne, splotchy skin and wrinkles
• Grow lustrous hair and strong nails?
• Get rid of the bloat, melt away fat and never count calories again!

Practically Green takes the guesswork out of reading labels and will show you how to make smart, healthy purchases for your family without spending tedious hours researching the pros and cons of all of the products available on the market today. Each chapter is broken down into "Buy It" and "Do It" sections. The "Buy-It" section provides key information about everyday purchasing decisions and includes clip-out checklists for you to reference while shopping. The "Do It" section gives DIY ideas for how to make things that are good for your family and good for the environment, such as simple sewing projects, non-toxic cleaning products and luxurious, homemade beauty products. Plus, the author shares some of her favorite recipes that are sure to please the entire family!