"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.

There are simple shifts anyone can make to live and be better every day, while protecting our planet. Piper guides readers through the transition to a kinder, healthier, more conscious, and sustainable life.

Organized by month, here you'll find short projects that you can use to dip your toes into the vast ocean of homesteading without getting overwhelmed. Appropriate whether you live on a forty-acre farm, a postage-stamp lawn in suburbia, or a high rise.

"All You Need is Less is about realistically adopting an eco-friendly lifestyle without either losing your mind from the soul-destroying guilt of using a plastic bag because you forgot your reusable ones in the trunk of your car (again), or becoming a preachy know-it-all whom everyone loathes from the tips of her organically-shampooed hair to the toes of her naturally sourced recycled sandals. It's all gotten kind of complicated, hasn't it? These...

"A small guide for those seeking a life of beauty, simplicity, and sustainability.In this simple and inspiring lifestyle handbook, Mary Kingsley - novelist, wife, mother, homesteader and co-founder of Lady Farmer - briefly discusses the history of humanity's relationship with the natural world, how that relationship has shifted, and how the concept of "slow living" can return health to ourselves and our planet. This guide not only includes an exploration...