Can you make your own bread (sans bread machine)? Grow a garden all winter? What can you use instead of toilet paper?What if the power went out for a month? What if the grocery store closed? Can you make a solar oven? Store food without electricity?Raise a water buffalo? Make fine linen from stinging nettle? Make your own shampoo? Deliver a baby? Is it possible to be totally self-sufficient?This massive, full-color book answers all these questions and thousands more and includes checklists, diagrams, and instructions on how to buy a sheep.

All of the information included meets these criteria: It is something that anyone can do, without special training. It can be done with relatively few supplies or with stuff you can make yourself. It has been tried and tested--either by the author, the military, doctors,or other homesteaders.

The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading is not a storybook or a cookbook.It is a practical guide with nitty-gritty details on everything a homesteader can do, step-by-step with hundreds of color illustrations and pen and ink sketches. You can do it! This book can help. Everything you ever wanted to know about self-reliance, preparedness,survival, and sustainable homesteading in one simple guide.