Ebook: Practical projects for self-sufficiency: DIY projects to get your self-reliant lifestyle started: eat, grow, preserve, improve

Cider press -- Herb-drying rack -- Solar oven -- Solar fruit dryer -- Backyard fire pit -- Firewood shelter -- Frame loom -- Solar still -- Manual laundry washer -- Pet door -- Metal kit shed -- Post-and-board fence -- Clothesline trellis -- Two-bin composter -- Basement vermiculture bin -- Potato-growing box -- Soil sifter -- Octagon strawberry planter and cover -- Teepee trellis -- Jumbo cold frame -- Raised bed with removable trellis -- Pallet planter -- Chicken coop -- Brooder box -- Beehive.;"Complete plans, instructions, and color photos show precisely how to make 30 original projects to help you live a more self-sufficient lifestyle. Have you ever wanted to build your own chicken coop, cider press, or herb-drying rack? How about a clever two-bin composter, horse-blanket washing machine, or genuine Langstroth beehive? In Practical Projects for Self-Sufficiency, you'll find these projects and a couple of dozen more to help you develop and grow your self-reliant lifestyle. Where most books in the popular self-sufficiency category give you pages of words and a couple of small drawings by way of explanation, this book shows you exactly how to do things, employing beautiful photos and complete plans in the best Cool Springs Press tradition. The book's projects are organized into four categories: Food Prep & Preservation, Homestead, Garden, and Animals. Within these categories we've carefully chosen a broad range of popular projects, often with a creative touch or two to make them easier to build or more efficient to use. A simple brooder box for chicks, a jumbo cold frame, a basic loom, a large-capacity soil sifter that won't give you a backache, fencing, trellises, and even a solar oven are included in the list of dynamic project plans. So whether you're a longtime do-it-yourselfer looking to complete your skill set or a newcomer taking your first step toward sustainability, Practical Projects for Self-Sufficiency is the book to get you there"--Publisher's description.