Many people dream of becoming self-reliant during these times of fluctuating prices and uncertain job security. Using truly simple techniques, you can cultivate the pioneer's independence to provide safety against lost wages, harsh weather, economic recession, and commercial contamination and shortages. Strengthen your family's self-reliance as you discover a new the joy of homegrown food, thrift, and self-sufficient living.
From self-sufficiency expert Caleb Warnock comes the ultimate guidebook to living off the land. Packed with over 1,450 photographs of 437 edible wild berries, roots, nuts, greens, and flowers, this essential field guide will provide you with invaluable information on plant identification, flavor, seasonality, history, common synonyms, eating and preparation instructions, and more! It's the most exhaustive reference book of its kind.
Includes Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
Without fresh, all-natural winter gardening in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries people would have starved to death. The good news is that feeding your family fresh food from your own backyard garden all winter long is far easier and less time-consuming than you might imagine. And you won't find better-tasting food at any price!
Caleb Warnock, the author of the bestselling Backyard Renaissance Series, provides the most understandable and important look at the health benefits of water kefir to date. Using his decades of self-sufficiency experience, Caleb makes making kefir simple and easy enough for anyone to have success brewing their own water kefir.
Includes:Self-sufficiency expert Caleb Warnock shares his expertise on living off the land in 276 Edible Wild Plants of the United States and Canada. Packed with over 800 photographs of over 250 wild berries, roots, nuts, greens, and flowers, this valuable reference will show you which plants are edible, where to find them, how to prepare them, and how to avoid poisonous look-alikes. With a focus on plants found throughout the United States and Canada, it's the most exhaustive reference book of its kind
In the first aquaponic book to provide information on lawns, gardens, and vertical gardens, self-sufficiency expert Caleb Warnock shows us how fish, plants, a flower bed, water, and a drain combine to create a masterful ecosystem that can sustain your family.
Aquaponic gardening mimics nature. In her simplest form, Mother Nature creates a self-sustaining system in which water, animals, and plants combine to help each other. Creating your own aquaponic garden using this natural cycle is simple, cost-effective, and sustainable.
In an aquaponic garden, fish live in the water and produce waste; when this fish water is used to water the garden, the soil (along with your garden) is naturally enriched and fertilized. Meanwhile, the water is effectively filtered by the soil. When the filtered water returns to the fish pond, the fish continue to eat and grow, and the cycle continues.
The advantages are endless. Aquaponic gardens:
Improve your health with stevia--the world's only all-natural, calorie-free, non-glycemic herbal sweetener. Stevia is a leafy green herb with a strong, sugary flavor. Most people don't believe it until they taste it. For centuries, the Guarani tribes of Paraguay have grown and loved these candy-flavored leaves, benefiting daily from the natural health stevia provides. They call it kaa-jhee, which means honey leaf.
The Stevia Solution Cookbook provides information on how to cultivate, grow, purchase, and use stevia in your everyday cooking and includes more than sixty full-color images and recipes.
The health benefits of stevia are diverse:
If you are looking for an alternative to today's high-caloric, inflammatory, and health-debilitating sweeteners, The Stevia Solution Cookbook is for you!
Planting your own garden can cut down your grocery bill, but few people have the time to cultivate a big harvest every year. Self-sufficiency expert Caleb Warnock shares his expertise in creating a permaculture food forest: a garden that you plant once and then leave in the hands of Mother Nature for years to come. Best of all, this natural, sustainable, and low-maintanance garden can succeed in any climate, and Growing a Permaculture Food Forest can show you how.
This compact guidebook includes:
Seasonal planting and constant weeding are things of the past With a permaculture food forest, you can feed your family with homegrown vegetables without all the fuss.
If you want cheese that's one-third the cost and better tasting than your best store-purchased Romano or Parmesan, then this book is for you. Caleb Warnock, the celebrated self-sufficiency master, teaches you how to make seven different cheeses that are delicious, inexpensive, fun, and easy. And best of all, it requires no special equipment--no thermometer, no rennet purchased on the Internet, no acetic acid crystals, not even cheesecloth.
Caleb's recipe, which he worked for hundreds of hours to create, is available nowhere else. You won't find a self-reliant, cheese-making method anywhere on the Internet It's simple. Once you have practiced the recipe a couple of times, the cheese practically makes itself. It costs 30% less than most store-bought cheese and 80% less than Romano and Parmesan Its fresh taste is unbeatable.
It's fun. And it's the only cheese recipe in the world that begins with a shovel
Today's liquid commercial lotions have more toxic chemicals than we want to admit. Homemade liquid lotions have a shelf life of only a couple of weeks. Hard lotion is the solution for those interested in avoiding commercial products or lotions with short shelf lives and who want smooth, soft skin.
Amberlee, the owner of the noted Amberlee's Apothecary and full-time chemist, and Caleb Warnock, the self-sufficiency expert, have teamed up to provide easy-to-make hard lotion solutions for your skin needs. With key health ingredients like coconut and avocado oils, hard lotions are simply the best solution to the skin you want. And, creating your lotion at home is fun and far less expensive than the commercial alternatives.
When you are proofing (raising) bread dough, there is nothing better than a thermal oven. The consistent, long-lasting warmth allows the bread to be spongier and fluffier than any other method. No wonder people have used thermal ovens to raise bread for centuries
Caleb Warnock's clear instructions and experienced advice allow readers to inexpensively create and use a homemade thermal oven that will proof up to eight loaves of bread at one time or two trays of cinnamon or dinner rolls. This fantastic addition to the Backyard Renaissance Collection includes:
Tired of tilling your garden? Why till when Mother Nature can do it for you, saving you time and money? Caleb Warnock, self-sufficiency expert and author of the Backyard Renaissance Collection, provides a foolproof method to toss your tiller and have the best garden in the neighborhood.
Armed with fifteen reasons you'll never have to till your garden again and still have the bumper crop that will be the envy of Farmer John, No-Till Gardening teaches a better, simpler way to garden.
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Viili Perpetual No-Cook Homemade Yogurt is the perfect introductory booklet to viili, a yogurt-like, traditional Finnish dish which never needs to be cooked and is made entirely on the countertop by pouring milk into a starter (the residue of the yogurt you just used). Yogurt making has never been easier!
With expert advice from self-sufficiency expert Caleb Warnock, Viili Perpetual No-Cook Homemade Yogurt includes the history of viili; where to get a start; how to use it with pasteurized milk, raw milk, and powdered milk; how to store it; how to keep the yogurt sweet; specific scientific health benefits; and twenty delicious recipes.
Self-sufficiency expert Caleb Warnock teams up with certified master herbalist Kirsten Skirvin to write Herbal Beauty: All-Natural Skin, Body, and Hair Care, a 76-page booklet packed with tips and recipes.
Advice and recipes for homemade beauty products include:
Many gardeners give up making backyard compost in frustration--the compost pile smells, it requires too much work to turn the heap, and the process requires too many ingredients and too much attention. Gardeners who have used compost barrels or kits know that their experience ends in one way: a smelly barrel that, after months of care, produces only a tiny amount of compost. What to do? Return to the way that compost has been made for centuries--in shallow pits. With this method, the compost never needs to be turned, never smells, and is ready in half the time. Any backyard gardener can make volumes of sustainable compost without any work. Shallow pit composting works with Mother Nature, letting her do the work
When you plant the right varieties of heirloom vegetables, you can harvest huge volumes of fresh food from small garden plots and container gardens. Self-sufficiency expert Caleb Warnock provides step-by-step directions for designing, planting, and harvesting a tiny garden for big harvests that can really feed your family.