Offers advice in food preservation, recipes, gardening, beekeeping, raising livestock, soap making, and other farm and household activities for living well and living simply.

Offers a distinctive blend of tried-and-true advice combined with time- and money-saving ideas for everyone.

"Pull up a chair and gather in close with entrepreneur and content creator Kristin Johns as she shares her best-kept secrets: mouthwatering recipes, design inspiration, and ways we all can grow, celebrate, and find nourishment in every season of life."--Back cover.

"Packed with step-by-step instructions, useful tips, time-honored wisdom, and both illustrations and photographs, this compact guide has everything you need to dive into a more self-sufficient life. From canning and preserving to keeping chickens, from fermenting vegetables to soap making, Gehring covers all the basics in this easy-to-read, approachable collection."--Page [4] of cover.

Includes simple instructions for hundreds of self-sufficiency projects, including making dip candles, baking bread and desserts, making maple syrup, starting a vineyard, growing vegetables, raising chickens, keeping bees, preserving produce, curing meats, building a treehouse, making an old-fashioned toboggan and much more.