Do It Yourself Whether you're a city dweller looking to raise a rooftop garden and a coop of chickens, or a more serious prepper, this is the book for you. Detailed articles and helpful step-by-step illustrations guide you through everything from setting up a survival pantry to generating your own power, building shelters in the wild, finding and disinfecting water, emergency first aid, and hundreds more traditional skills for the modern person. Grow Preserve Your Food Learn simple techniques for growing food anywhere, traditional methods of drying, canning, and preserving fruits, vegetables, jerky, and more essentials from what you grow (or buy at the store), and how to set up a survival pantry should a natural disaster or other unexpected event empty out the shelves at your local grocery Special sections on foraging wild foods and medicinal herbs to create your own herbal medicines will take your self-sufficiency skills to the next level. Survive off the Grid Ready to leave the modern world behind for your own little patch of land? Find time-tested strategies for everything from building your own cabin to making essential supplies from scratch to dealing with emergency medical care. Expert advice and handy checklists take you through choosing the right vehicle, finding water anywhere, fire-starting techniques, going solar, and just about everything else you need to know. Tim Macwelch is a New York Times best-selling author of multiple books on survival and sustainable living, and the founder of the Advanced Survival Training School and Outdoor Life magazine's survival expert. The real deal, Mac Welch grows his own food, can make a fire just about anywhere, and practices the too-often forgotten skills that kept our ancestors alive, from trapping animals to foraging medicinal herbs.