Cost-Effective Self-Sufficiency

by Terence McLaughlin

This is an inspirational guide to teach you everything you need to know about growing your own food and becoming self-sufficient. This updated version of the original guide to self-sufficiency has everything you need to start the good life. It includes the very latest gardening advice to help you grow fresh fruit and vegetables on your land, be it a garden or allotment, small or large. You can discover how to plan your site to make the most of it. Expert gardening tips explores the best planting times, how to start a garden from scratch and how to plan your crops. You can move closer to self-sufficiency with unusual ideas for how to store, process and preserve your homegrown harvest to make it last longer. You can brew your own beer and cider and learn how to bottle, cure, smoke and pickle your produce.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published April 27, 1978

Reviews

[Andrew Block]

I've read a few homesteading/gardening books like this. Sadly they all tend to share the same problem. It's great to have some tips and tricks that you have learned throughout the years, but the book can't be nothing but tips and tricks. There has to be some kind of substantive "these are the five basic principles of gardening" or "here are the 10 things that will always bring ba good yield." By contrast "here are the 6,527 randomly assorted tidbits of gardening info you need to remember" is not useful.

[Ben Scott]

Interesting read informative if I only had the space