Absolutely love this book. Dehydrating is the easiest way to preserve your garden produce and makes for delicious meals all winter long. This book is the best resource I’ve found for dehydrating instructions and recipes to use your dried foods in. The dry mixes have come in real handy during camping trips and even work lunches.

Started with the easiest to make, Queso Blanco. I’m very excited about working on some of the rest :)

Excellent beginner urban/suburban homesteaders resource. Introduces you to everything that’s possible even on a small piece of land. My city doesn’t allow for all of these ideas, but I’m starting on those that I can and am very excited about it.

This year I did a very successful test garden an implemented a lot of other ideas from the book: built coldframes, started making bread and sourdough, made yogurt, got a dwarf apple (self pollinating) and raspberries established, started dehydrating, got a grain mill, began sprouting again for winter, and added 2 rabbits (although I’m vegetarian so I got angoras for spinning fiber and fertilizer).

I’m very excited to expand my garden to the rest of the yard this year and try some of the other ideas the book has tempted me with. It’s inspired me to do more research on my own and go even further, adding skills like spinning and soapmaking in an effort to life as self-sufficiently as city living will allow.

Obviously, was a life changing book for me!

This was the only item on the “5 Star Children’s/Family Movies from allmovie.com” list that I hadn’t seen, so I found it on netflix and watched it online. It was just horribly horribly awful. Uneventful, boring, and just plain stupid. I was really disappointed because I had seen and liked everything else on the list.