A practical back-to-basics guide to achieving food security and financial independence.What if you could really raise or grow all the food your family needs? In this fully illustrated book, you’ll learn to create an autonomous, diversified, and sustainable garden and to cultivate and maintain it following the main principles of permaculture. If you want to move towards greater food autonomy and you have sufficient space, you can also grow grains, keep chickens, and...

Discover how to create a weed-free, sustainable, abundant garden with the no-till gardening method!The no-dig or no-till gardening method is an easy and climate-smart technique that is gaining in popularity and revolutionizing the gardening world. This book teaches you everything you need to start and care for a kitchen garden without any digging, watering, or weeding. Too good to be true? Find out for yourself! No-dig gardening is better for the environme...

Learn the way of the forager and identify, harvest, and prepare wild plants by season.Have you ever wondered what it would be like to gather wild plants growing around you for your food and medicine instead of a drugstore to treat a common ailment? The Forager's Handbook is an essential guide for living this lifestyle year-round.With more than forty years of experience in the world of plants, forager Vickie Shufer empowers you to maintain and impro...

**Protect your health, reduce waste, and be a better steward of the Earth by making the switch to natural cleaning products with these *43 easy recipes!***A clean house should not come at the expense of your health. Common household cleaners are not kid-friendly or pet-friendly—or lung-friendly, or skin-friendly. Store-bought cleaners that contain bleach and ammonia, drain cleaners, toilet cleaners, and more are the cause of thousands of household emergencies each...

****Winner of the 2023 International Book Awards for Best Cookbook** **Finalist in the 2023 International Book Awards Health: Aging 50+ category** ****Gourmand 2023 Award for Best Book in Health & Nutrition in the World** ****Bronze winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award** **Silver winner of the Living Now Book Award**Nearly 300 Recipes that Feature the Healthiest Foods from around the World**Chef and author Grace O has traveled the...

Wondering how to stay alive and safe in the outdoors?The Essential Skills of Wilderness Survival is a systematic approach to wilderness survival designed to increase your confidence in the outdoors and teach you exactly what to do, and in what order, if you find yourself in a survival situation.You will learn how to:build shelter from natural materials that keep you warm and protected from the elementsfind water and purify i...

A celebration of multigenerational Latin cooking for the plant-based home cook—guaranteed to bring both older and younger generations to the table.It can be difficult to have multiple generations in the kitchen, each with their own ideas on food, but Abuela’s Plant-Based Kitchen puts them on the same page. Inspired by her upbringing in two culinary worlds—vegetarian and Puerto Rican—holistic health coach Karla Salinari reintroduces traditional Latin and Ca...

Over 1,000 Tips for Gardening, Country Cooking, Saving Money, DIY Cleaning Solutions, Home Remedies, and More!This comprehensive collection of practical tips covers all aspects of keeping a country home, from painting a wall to removing wine stains, making perfect pastry to making your own window cleaner. In addition, find advice for cleaning carpets, making jam, wallpapering, knitting, sewing, and more! Woven throughout are poems and proverbs, legends and lore, ma...

100 ways to embrace the simple life, with step-by-step instructions for keeping chickens, growing vegetables, making beer and wine, arranging flowers, soap making, and more!This is a home-management book for the twenty-first century. Alva Herdevall and Anders Rydell combine traditional methods with modern ideas to show that a higher degree of self-sufficiency is possible for everyone. You will learn the secrets of beekeeping, how to grow your own cut flowers, and h...

New York Times Bestselling Series! Meal prep made easy with 100 tasty, fun, fast, and healthy Instant Pot recipes for the whole family!Imagine pulling a container out of the freezer, dumping the frozen block of food in your Instant Pot along with a little water, and having a delicious meal to serve your family 15 minutes later. It's not too good to be true! Prep meals on a day when you have more time, label and store them in your freezer, and be ready for ...

A 2021 USA Today Bestseller! Get thousands of facts at your fingertips with this essential resource: business, the arts and pop culture, science and technology, U.S. history and government, world geography, sports, and so much more.The World Almanac® is America’s bestselling reference book of all time, with more than 83 million copies sold. For more than 150 years, this compendium of information has been the authoritative source for school, librar...

From one of the top HR specialists in the world comes this much-needed guide to help people maximize productivity and increase revenue.Whether it’s in corporate America or in our own living rooms, people are wasting time. From the minute we wake up and check our Facebook page or emails—before we even crawl out of bed—to late at night when we stay up longer than we should, watching our favorite show.There’s a precise moment that falls between working enough ...