Can you make your own bread? Homeschool your kids? Grow a garden all winter? What can you use instead of toilet paper? What if the power was out for a month? What if the grocery store closed? Can you make a solar oven? A food storage? Raise a water buffalo? Make fine linen from stinging nettle? Is it possible to be totally self-sufficient?This book answers all these questions. All of the information included had to meet this 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 came from a proven source of information (the military, real homesteaders, 19th c. books, doctors, etc.)This book 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 illustrations. And you can do it! This book can help.